When something seems too good to be true?

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20yo DD2 started a new job with a rapidly expanding chain of deli restaurants 3 months ago. She'd previously been at a fast food chain.

She's bright and capable, very personable, but never academic and not particularly practical so it was always difficult to see where her future might lie. She seems to have fallen into this and found her niche.

She was offered a job more senior than the one she applied for at interview. Has since been given a payrise as an incentive to go and help open another store (longish commmute) and whilst working with head office types doing that has been told that they plan to put her forward to lead an opening team.

My concerns:

• the current job seems to be paying far more than the going rate for this kind of work
• Their expansion plans are huge and very fast. I worked in corporate finance and this is rarely a good thing!
• The "promised" new job apparently pays £75k, at 20/21 with no qualifications and little experience?

I mean absolutely fantastic, but there's something that feels all wrong.

She's absolutely loving it and it's great to see her doing something she's good at, she never got that from school, but there's something that makes me think we're heading for a fall.

All I can do is watch and wait though, and keep my fingers crossed, I suppose?

If she has experience in the sector, she is likely able to find something else if this doesn’t work out.
Would you want to say what the chain is?

That salary is insane.
That would be ringing alarm bells

Well,she's enjoying it right now and getting paid a decent salary.
She's young, bright, capable and personable.
She's gaining management experience in an area that's struggling to recruit at the moment.
So the company may well expand fast and fail but at the end of the day she'll almost certainly pick up another job without too much trouble.
Just let her try it and see what happens.

Does she have a contract yet? It is a lot of money in that industry but if she's checked the contract carefully I can't see a reason not to accept it.

I would assume it was a front for money laundering.

I know, I don't know if it's that but there's definitely "something".

If you're in London you'd definitely know the shops, there's about 40 and they have plans for the whole country over the next 4 years.

They seem very well set up re training, staff welfare etc. If it is a cover for something they're doing it very well!

What is her role, is it catering or managing? Also has she been payed yet?

Current role is junior management.

Yes, she's being getting paid correctly for the job she's doing atm.

The big new job is only a possibility somewhere in the future, when an opportunity comes up, which we both know could be ages or never, but even so, the salary seems ridiculous - it's apparently what they're paying those already in the role.