{"id":30108,"date":"2026-04-24T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=30108"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:48:30","slug":"chris-jenner-minster-cleaning-kent-franchisee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/chris-jenner-minster-cleaning-kent-franchisee\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jenner \u2013 Minster Cleaning Kent franchisee"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>6.00am &#8211; I am awake and ready for the day \u2013 first on the agenda is making my long-suffering partner of 30 years, Claire, a cup of tea. Whilst having cereal I do my daily <em>\u201cbrain workout\u201d<\/em> with online word puzzles. I leave for the office at around 7.30am.<\/p>\n<p>8.00 \u2013 8.30 I utilise this <em>\u201cquiet\u201d<\/em> time to deal with overnight emails, check the bank account (very important to keep on top of debtors when you are running your own business!) and create my plan for the day.<\/p>\n<p>8.30 \u2013 11.00 \u2013 As the office staff arrive, we discuss anything that has come in overnight, or issues from last night\u2019s cleaning. I am fortunate to have an experienced and motivated team, most things they just tell me that they have dealt with!<\/p>\n<p>11.00 \u2013 1.00 If I am not out seeing customers or quoting (I still like to keep my hand in with this. It\u2019s one of the most interesting things about the business \u2013 you never know what kind of business and people you will be seeing), I will probably be reviewing our marketing, analysing our performance against budget or reviewing our field staff rostering and performance.<\/p>\n<p>1.00 \u2013 1.30 Lunch is usually a sandwich at my desk whilst watching BBC news.<\/p>\n<p>1.30 \u2013 5.00 I will have a multitude of things needing my attention \u2013 booking a service for a van, authorising payments, checking stock levels etc.<\/p>\n<p>5.00 \u2013 5.30 \u2013 I try and get away from the office soon after 5pm \u2013 on a Thursday I leave at 3.30pm to go to my guitar lesson. I always wanted to play an instrument, so last year took the plunge and booked lessons \u2013 you\u2019re never too old to learn a new skill! It\u2019s a challenge but one that I enjoy \u2013 most evenings I try and practice for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Evening \u2013 in the summer I will try and get to my allotment &#8211; weeds seem to grow whatever the weather! Often I will think of something that I need to do the following day \u2013 so on to the laptop to make a reminder for the morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6.00am &#8211; I am awake and ready for the day \u2013 first on the agenda is making my long-suffering partner of 30 years, Claire, a cup of tea. Whilst having cereal I do my daily \u201cbrain workout\u201d with online word puzzles. I leave for the office at around 7.30am. 8.00 \u2013 8.30 I utilise this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[739,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minster-cleaning","category-cleaning-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Picture1-3.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30110,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108\/revisions\/30110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}