![]() ![]() Its customers show up in groups - birthday and bachelor parties are most common, but the business hosts company retreats, baby showers and even divorce parties. But Stumpy’s is an unusual business, to say the least. “We live all the way out in Bucks County, Penn., and we had two friends on two separate occasions talk about getting a group together to make a trip here.” The buzz piqued their interest, so they came to meet the owners on a “discovery day.” “Jon and I have been exploring the franchise route,” says JoyAnn, who also happens to be a franchising attorney. Related: 5 Franchises You Can Buy for Less Than $18,000 And they believe a hatchet-throwing franchise may be just the thing. They came here, to this otherwise sleepy industrial part of Eatontown, N.J., because they’re in the market for a turnkey business that will make them money while allowing them the free time they need to raise two kids. She and Jon didn’t really come to Stumpy’s Hatchet House to throw hatchets. Her hatchets bounce off the target at unpredictable angles and clatter to the concrete floor. ![]() His wife, JoyAnn Charlton, is a different story. On his third throw, he hits the bull’s-eye. On the helicopter pilot’s second-ever throw, the hatchet swings one perfect rotation, handle over blade and sinks into a target 12 feet away. Jon Charlton might be a hatchet-throwing prodigy.
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