Wanted: Ambitious Entrepreneurs to conquer Europe with Italy's No.1 Escape Room brand
Be the First to bring to Europe the Escape Room Franchise that “beat Covid” by expanding locations while others shut down.
The only franchise with a scientific protocol that allows you to earn up to €36,000 per month working just 5-8 hours a week
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Have you ever wanted to start a successful business business in a big city with a huge customer base, with which you can earn without sacrificing every minute of your time?
If you are looking for a business that works almost automatically, leaving you free time for your family or other passions, Cronos Escape Room is the right opportunity for you.
Becoming an affiliate means entering a growing sector, with a proven model and guaranteed profits in less than 24 months, thanks to the Protocol that has made Cronos the n.1 escape room brand in Italy.
And if you will be the first in your country, you could also become Ambassador, earning on new Cronos openings in your country.
OTHER EXCLUSIVE BONUSES RESERVED FOR THE FIRST AFFILIATE
→ Zero markups on the cost of room production – purchase at cost price!
→ Discounts up to 50% when you choose to add more rooms to your Escape Room.
→ Royalties halved for an entire year [to accelerate your ROI].
→ Lifetime additional discount on royalties starting from the second year (better than any bank return you’ll ever find).
…but you’ll find all the details at the bottom of this page. Keep reading.
BUT BEWARE!
We are not selling illusions, we do not promise easy earnings without commitment or investments, like many others do…
Cronos Escape Room is a concrete opportunity, for those who are ready to make a real investment.
Even if you have no experience in the sector, you can start this business without complications thanks to our turnkey system… but this is NOT the classic mirage “earn from the couch starting with no money”, far from it.
This is a proven business model which will bring you significant profits from the first few months, but if you are looking for a “shortcut” to start a business from your bedroom with money from the piggy bank, close this page and go elsewhere…
If, however, you have serious intentions and want to invest in a growing sector, to build something solid and profitable, then Cronos is the right partner for you.
AN EXPANDING SECTOR
The escape room market is experiencing a real EXPLOSION globally: valued at approximately $8.1 billion in 2023, is expected to continue to grow at a rate of 14.9% per year until 2032.
Source: UnivDatos.com Escape Room Market Report 2023
If you already have a business, you know how essential diversification is. This opportunity allows you to multiply your profits without the need to reorganize what you already have.
Escape rooms are not just a fad: their growing popularity and technological innovation in the sector attract thousands of new players every month looking for unique and engaging experiences.
And it is no coincidence that precisely the segment of the large themed rooms, like those offered by Cronos, represent the largest share of the global market.
With thousands and thousands of positive reviews collected in Italy, our themes have won over the public and guarantee an experience that pushes players to return time and time again.
The Perfect Solution for Success
Entering the family Cronos diversify your investment portfolio and get the complete package to become an important player in the entertainment sector in your city.
Our model “Start – Delegate – Earn” allows you to run a profitable business with a minimal effort: only 5-8 hours of supervision per week, with the rest handled by staff trained according to the Cronos Protocol, based on a scientific system for building winning teams.
You think you don’t have time to manage everything yourself? Don’t worry. We at Cronos are also by your side in the selection and training of personnel, ensuring your venue runs at its maximum efficiency without you having to be there every day.
Affiliate Testimonial: “Cronos to Diversify and Delegate”
Luca Ronchi, digital entrepreneur, chose Cronos Escape Room to diversify his business and have a semi-automatic income that required only a handful of hours of his time each week.
The special Guarantee that protects our Affiliates
We are so certain of our success “Start – Delegate – Earn” model that, if you do not reach the targets of games sold to cover management costs, we guarantee you this: you will not pay any royalties.
We are not interested in making money at the expense of affiliates. On the contrary, we do our utmost to ensure that their stores achieve category-leading performance. And only when the affiliate has the satisfaction he deserves, then the parent company earns together with him.
Affiliate Testimonial: “Project transparency and aligned objectives”
Alberto Duregon, a multi-affiliate with a background in the dancing club sector, chose Cronos Escape Room to start a business “without surprises” with clear guarantees and certain profit forecasts.
Finally Realized on a Personal and Professional level
Being the FIRST AFFILIATE in one big city in your country offers you TWO unique advantages:
FIRST ADVANTAGE:
You will have a huge customer base exclusively in the city you choose, no other Cronos store will open in your area.
And thanks to the continuous support offered by the parent company, from personnel selection to marketing strategies, this means the mathematical certainty of becoming profitable FAST.
SECOND ADVANTAGE:
You will be able to apply to become a Cronos Ambassador and support us in expanding in your country. In other words, with each new opening of a Cronos office in your country, you will earn a commission for your contribution.
By becoming a Cronos Ambassador, you will be the reference point of the brand in your entire country.
By becoming a Cronos Ambassador, you will be the reference point of the brand in your entire country.
Why is Cronos Escape Room different?
Many franchises just sell you a “job,” forcing you to work directly in your business…
Cronos Escape Room, instead, offers you a semi-automated business, where your role is that of supervision and strategic management, not day-to-day operations.
The Cronos Protocol takes care of selecting, training and managing staff, ensuring that your location runs like clockwork, without you having to be in the store every day.
You won’t have to take a leap in the dark or proceed with trial and error: you will have in your hand an already validated business model complete with continuous support at every stage, from setting up the rooms to promoting them on the market.
This is why, while other brands closed during the pandemic, Cronos has increased the number of its locations.
“Protected” launch and secure ROI in 24 months
Open a branch in Cronos means having by your side a team of experts who will follow you step by step, from the initial project to the start of the construction site, from staff training to launch strategies. We provide you with tools, resources and a whole marketing plan that has already proven its effectiveness in all our locations.
Consider this: Cronos Affiliates start earning within a few months and recover their investment between 18 and 24 months, thanks to a system designed to maximize profits and minimize risk.
The average turnover of a 4-room location, following the Cronos Protocol, in a medium-sized city is €36,000/month three months after the opening – thanks to the “boost” of the launch campaign – and of €24,000/month a regime, after 12 months.
Affiliate Testimonial: “Constant support and immediate results”
Luca Bignotto, Modena affiliate, appreciates the support received from Cronos since the start of the construction site. Not to mention a successful launch that brought surprising economic results from the very first months.
Because NOW is the Right Time
Cronos Escape Room, N.1 brand in Italy by number of locations and cities covered, decided to expand abroad starting from the big European cities.
Opening a Cronos branch means bringing a “healthy and profitable” entertainment format to your city. If you will be the first affiliate in your country, you can also apply to become Ambassador, earning on every new Cronos opening in your country.
Cronos is the first franchise in the world based on a SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM for creating and managing the team that will work in your store. The Cronos Protocol, one of a kind, is the secret of our success in Italy and now you can bring it to your country: it allows you to earn money by delegating 95% of operations to your staff.
You don’t need to be an Escape Room expert
If the opportunity inspires you but you don’t know if it’s the ideal sector for you, know that you don’t need any experience in the entertainment or escape room sector. Our franchise is designed to be managed effortlessly, thanks to a model that requires only 5-8 hours of supervision per week.
We take care of everything else, from staff training to marketing strategies.
This business model has proven its effectiveness in 17 locations in Italy, but if for some unlikely reason you do not achieve sufficient results to break even the costs, you should not pay royalties to the parent company.
With an estimated ROI of between 18 and 24 months, Cronos is a choice with predictable profits and profit margins of up to 50%.
Affiliate Testimonial: “Starting with a bang in the first month”
Mattia Zanetta, affiliate from Parma and professional in the food sector, decided to expand his shop after the first month of activity given the results obtained: beyond all expectations.
Opening a Cronos Escape Room location is for you if:
You have a small capital to invest and you are looking for a business that gives you the right financial satisfaction, without having to work too many hours
You are dissatisfied with your current job, how much time it takes up and how little you earn in relation to the hours worked
You're looking for business ideas but you want to be on the safe side and you're stuck with the many options you've found because you don't know who to trust
Maybe you are considering other franchises, or other independent businesses, but you are afraid of finding yourself with a “noose around your neck”, a prisoner of a shop where you have to work 60 hours a week…
…and maybe up to your neck in debt to the bank.
If so, we can reassure you.
Cronos is the first Escape Room franchise based on the
Effective Delegation
Unlike competitors who only focus on gaming rooms, we specialize in create the winning team that will work in your location (with the system that we will explain to you shortly), relieving you of 95% of the ordinary work.
Of course, the Cronos Escape Rooms are created by the best set designers from the most popular theme parks in Europe, with puzzles designed by professional puzzlers and game adventures written by role-playing game masters with decades of experience…
But the best part is another…
Thanks to our “Start – Delegate – Earn” model…
You will only have to administer and supervise the activities
WITHOUT the problem of identifying the right staff: we select and train them for you.
WITHOUT the need to work on it yourself, if you don't want to (your office will practically manage itself).
WITHOUT the uncertainty of starting a business from scratch: the Cronos protocol proved to be successful even during the pandemic
Affiliate Testimonial: “The most structured brand, with a protocol for employees”
Omar Marchetto, while continuing to work in the family business, joined Cronos for its solidity and organizational capacity, considering the operational protocol used to train employees to be an added value.
A business model that cuts costs
Any activity involves 3 major types of costs:
- location costs (rent and set-up)
- personnel expenses, which are fixed
- recurring expenses for raw materials or products to sell, which you have every month
The Escape Room business on the other hand has recurring expenses for raw materials or products that are PRACTICALLY NON-EXISTENT and this allows you to have profit margins of 20% to 50%. Unattainable for the vast majority of sectors.
Furthermore, the Cronos Protocol makes the cost of staff “variable”, because the staff only works when you have the matches booked, i.e. you have the CERTAINTY of having customers in your store.
Talk about it to your family. If you can dedicate 5 to 8 hours a week (maximum) to managing your location, then this is the business for you.
Affiliate Testimonial: “Started as a 'side-business', it is becoming my first business”
Cristian Tagliaferro, already active with a company in the plumbing sector, started his Cronos office as a “turnkey” secondary business, to be entrusted to a staff to whom he delegated the daily management.
Who is the founder of Cronos Escape Room
Alberto D’Annibale is the young founder of Cronos Escape Room.
He is an expert in creating sales networks and a certified system trainer of Structogram – an internationally recognized Swiss model for building successful teams.
These skills have allowed him to grow Cronos and, starting from scratch, lead it to be the No.1 brand in Italy in just 6 years (including the pandemic!)
In love with escape rooms since his first game, he wanted to start a branch by joining an already established franchise but only found proposals bordering on the ridiculous…
Having already created and managed complex sales structures, he knew how difficult it was to align all people with his vision, the objectives he set for himself and his way of working…
Therefore, fed up with proposals designed to burden the shoulders of the affiliates and protect only the principal, Alberto decided to flip the table and create a completely different model.
The intuition on which he built his company is that every successful business is made by PEOPLE, and not simple numbers. If you know how to identify, bring together and motivate the right people, any company is destined for success…
“Results are not the goal, but a predictable consequence of good teamwork.”
Alberto D’Annibale
Affiliate Testimonial: “Even though he was half my age, he had something to teach me”
Tatiana Autiello shared Alberto D’Annibale’s vision, embracing the Cronos project and finding fundamental support even in the unpredictable period of difficulty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The secret to the success of Cronos Escape Room
Cronos will select the right people with you to make up your staff, so that they love working together and coordinating, giving you as little hassle as possible. And we can do it because the whole of Cronos was built “with the brain”.
How? The entire company is based on the Structogram model, a system that combines over 50 years of scientific research in neurophysiology and anthropology, incredibly efficient for creating Effective Teams.
Structogram develops three levels of effectiveness:
- Personal Effectiveness, to discover your strengths and weaknesses;
- Relational Effectiveness, to recognize the most effective communication styles;
- Negotiating Effectiveness, to learn diversified sales strategies based on your interlocutors.
This is how your location team will be built, a team of people who know how to work well together and how to get customers excited.
But this is also how the entire Cronos is built: the administration, the marketing team, the technical team… Every person who works in Cronos is included in the company respecting these principles.
And this is the secret of its success. A success that YOU too can share.
(and maybe, FIRST in your country)
How does starting a Cronos office work?
The procedure involves very clear and defined steps:
How to start even if you don’t already have capital to invest
Starting any company requires a capital investment and – if you don’t already have it available – bank support.
But the bank does not provide credit without reasonable guarantees of reviewing the money it lends you, especially if you propose a business model that has not already been validated by the market.
Precisely for this…
Cronos provides you with an effective business plan, with all the reassurances that the bank requires, and supported by the No. 1 company in Italy in the sector, with demonstrable numbers.
Furthermore, the economic treatment reserved for Cronos affiliates is UNIQUE in the entire Escape Room category.
Affiliate Testimonial: “Continuous collaboration, there is mutual growth with the company”
Dennis Zavoli, entrepreneur in the industrial automation sector, chose Cronos attracted by its young and innovative project, but also appreciates the continuous improvement at the basis of the company philosophy.
What Cronos Escape Room IS NOT
It is not a “system to earn” without working, but an opportunity to become a true entrepreneur, owner of a business with employees, and work in an “intelligent” rather than “intensive” way.
Furthermore, it is not a franchise created to squeeze its affiliates. You choose the method you prefer: a royalty payment plan as a percentage, based on how much you sell, OR a fixed annual amount divided into monthly installments, whichever you prefer.
Finally, it is not a brand that exploits employees to maximize profits. The worry of many entrepreneurs is finding the right staff and not being able to “switch off” from work within the business.
But the Cronos protocol is specifically designed for:
- attract employees interested in fun work, with flexible hours and shifts that they can manage independently;
- select the right people to join your staff, creating close-knit and productive teams;
- train all your employees according to the Cronos Protocol to guarantee their – and YOUR – maximum satisfaction.
A study conducted by researchers from Harvard University explains that a good level of staff satisfaction is worth, on average, 31% more productivity and 37% more sales for the company.
After all, the reason for the success of global franchises like Starbucks is precisely that employees are happy to work there and motivated to give their best. Exactly what the Game Masters who work in the Cronos offices feel, as they confirm in their testimonies.
The Numbers of Cronos Escape Room
Simone Pranzetti
Valentina Liverotti
Camilla Romagnoli
Paola Bassi
A clear case study: the launch of Cronos Escape Room Modena
The Modena case study is exemplary. It opened on December 10, 2022 with 3 game environments…
As of March 31, 2023, it was already selling 227 matches per month with a turnover of €22.700 and a profit of approx €6.000 for the affiliate.
Want more information on how to become a
Cronos Escape Room Affiliate?
- Fill out the Preliminary Questionnaire below
- Book an information call with Cronos management
- Request the Presentation Box, you will find all the information material for aspiring Affiliates inside it.
If you pass the selection, we will invite you to Italy to experience the CRONOS EXPERIENCE, one full immersion two-days in the world of Cronos Escape Room.
As our guest, you will visit some already established locations to see with your own eyes how the work is carried out and what the “typical” customer flow is of an already established location.
You will be able to ask all the questions you want, see behind the scenes of Cronos, go to the other side of the reception counter and touch the concreteness of this business.
Furthermore, for those of you who have shown interest by reading this far,
there is an EXCLUSIVE OFFER valid only in this phase
of “opening new markets”
If you are the first from your country to join, you will have a UNIQUE economic treatment:
- You will purchase the rooms at the production cost only, without any markup
- If you purchase four rooms, the fifth will be discounted at 50%
And there’s more…
In fact, just for the FIRST new affiliate, there are FOUR ADDITIONAL BONUSES:
- Royalties discounted by 50% for the entire first year of activity
- 25% LIFETIME discount on royalties from the second year of activity
- Invitation and plane ticket included for the Cronos Summit, the annual event that brings together the entire Cronos Escape Room
- Your location’s website included
If you want to diversify your business and join an irresistible offer in a rapidly growing market, this is the opportunity you were looking for.
Affiliate Testimonial: “I joined a great family, the company supports me in everything”
Fabio Camprini started his Escape Room while maintaining his employed job. He loves the unity and sense of sharing that the company creates with its Affiliates as much as the support he receives for every idea or need.
The world is changing and escape rooms are the new frontier of entertainment.
Whether you are an experienced entrepreneur or someone looking for your first big business opportunity, Cronos is the ideal partner to ensure your success.
Don’t let this exclusive opportunity slip through your hands. If you are ready to improve the quality of your life, book an information call NOW with our team and discover how to bring a business of proven success in your city.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many square meters should my office building have?
35 square meters are needed for each themed room (the escape rooms), plus 40-50 square meters for the common areas (reception, control room and bathroom).
What support will I receive from Cronos in preparation for the opening?
We will help you in selecting the ideal building and in negotiations with the owner of the premises.
Furthermore, with the support of a local technician you trust, we will help you with the bureaucratic part of starting the business.
Regarding the creation of the installations, we will take care of the construction management for the creation of the gaming rooms, while for the general work (systems, fixtures, etc.) you can turn to artisans and professionals chosen by you.
Will you help me promote my location when it launches?
Certainly. We have a proven procedure to attract a large audience from the moment your store opens, with the support of the Cronos marketing team.
How will you support me for the personnel to be put into service?
We will help you select your staff members by screening applications and supporting you in interviews. Then, we will train your collaborators on the Cronos Protocol to make them efficient and productive.
As regards the contractual relationship, we will help you choose a local professional expert in employment contracts, human resources and payroll.
Will Cronos also take care of my accounting?
No, you will have to find an accountant or consultant firm who will take care of the accounting and tax aspects of your business, in compliance with the regulations of your country.
Will I be supported in promotional activities at a local level?
Of course yes. The Cronos marketing team will create advertising and promotional campaigns for you on social networks and on the web, but will also take care of creating paper materials such as flyers, posters or other. You will have our full support in the commercial strategy and in the graphic creation of promotions and partnerships.
What are the opening hours of a Cronos Escape Room location?
It depends on your area and the habits of locals and tourists. On average the shop is open from 3pm until 1.30am.
How many games per room can we estimate I will sell each month?
This calculation will be made following an accurate analysis of your city: population, presence of competitors, tourist flow, etc. Tell us in which city you would like to open and we will make this estimate as soon as possible.
How much is the minimum investment to open a Cronos Escape Room location?
On average it takes around €200,000 to open a Cronos Escape Room store with four different thematic rooms, the right size to reach in a few months the proceeds we told you about.
In which language will we usually communicate?
Communications between Affiliates and the Parent Company will take place in English.
Carlo Baronti