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Franchise Founder Loses Twitter Food Fight
Cuppy’s Coffee founder Robert “Morg” Morgan had been laying low.
While the unhappy victims of the Cuppy’s Coffee were commiserating online, Morgan had quietly reinvented himself as new age celibate vegan raw food guru Bobby The Rawman Walking. He had launched two self-promotional blogs called Living Raw & Free and The Sanctuary (his raw food retreat).
By posting 5000+ touchy-feely inspirational messages and links to raw food recipes, Rawman Walking had built up an adoring following on Twitter. He was just starting to pitch his ardent followers – most of whom were middle-aged women unaware of his controversial past – on [...]
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CURVES: Recent Comments
Comments continue to come in from struggling and distressed Curves franchise owners.
On a Curves franchise post on UnhappyFranchisee, Another Curver wrote 2009/08/16 at 5:40pm:
I hope someone will buy my Curves franchise. Not because it is such a great thing to deal with CurvesInternational (CI) but because the Curves concept is fabulous, and the clubs themselves do a huge service in the community. I have to sell mine because of going thru bankruptcy because of closing my second club. Otherwise, I was trying to hold onto my club. I wasn’t making alot of money (about $1500/month for 50-60 hrs/week of work) [...]
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IT’S JUST LUNCH: And He’s Just Married
Franchise dating service It’s Just Lunch is getting less than stellar reviews from unhappy customers.
ijltoldmehewasdivorced writes:
It’s Just Lunch (IJL) in Atlanta proposed a match for me in June 2008. The described him and told me he was divorced. He told me he was divorced, as well. Our first date was June 27, 2008. Long story short, I just obtained a copy of his divorce decree from Cobb County, GA Superior Court (issued last week, by the way!) . It shows that he was NOT divorced at all the entire time we dated. He was separated on or about January 22, [...]
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AMWAY: An MLM Scam? Recent Comments
Is multilevel marketing giant Amway a scam?
Brad doesn’t think so. on 2009/08/22 at 9:24am Brad wrote:
So many times have we all read posts from those who claim to be CEOs, heads of corporations, multi-millionaires, billionaires, etc. yet can’t get a simple point across or insist on bashing and finger-pointing.
The bottom line is that it is not something for nothing, or pie in the sky, as L-Dub calls it, but the success can be very real if you are willing to put in the work. If you do not like doing some of the things that will help your business grow, [...]
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CUPPY’S Founder Morg Morgan Fires Back
After three years under fire on FranchisePick.com, BlueMauMau.org, UnhappyFranchisee.com and other blogs, the much-maligned Morg is speaking out and telling his side of the story for the first time.
Links to the many posts on Cuppy’s Coffee and interviews with Cuppy’s Coffee victims are posted here: Cuppy’s Coffee
Morg’s unedited post telling his side of the story is here: CUPPY’S: Robert Morgan’s “My Thoughts About The American Dream”
Robert “Morg” Morgan, the founder and previous owner of the controversial Cuppy’s Coffee and related controversial entities (Medina Enterprises, Elite Manufacturing, etc.) recently resurfaced as raw food guru “Bobby” Morgan, the “Rawman Walking.” Rawman Walking publishes [...]
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Rawman Walking
Rawman Walking aka “Bobby” describes himself as “a 4 year Cancer Survivor, a Raw Vegan Athlete, A Holistic Health Counselor, Raw Foods Nutritional Consultant, Herbalist and Mentor at The Sanctuary, a raw food retreat.”
Bobby the Rawman Walking is offering a women-only diet and lifestyle counseling for fees ranging from $1500 – $14,000 and claims he can cure Type 2 Diabetes in only 28 days.
Who is this new age guru and celibate raw food messiah? And who is his trusty vegan superhero sidekick Rawman Living?
UnhappyFranchisee.com has discovered that the supervegan duo of Rawman Walking and Rawman Living is none other than [...]
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LIBERTY TAX Pulls Deceptive Franchise Ads
Last Thursday I published a post regarding 433 franchisee recruitmant ads placed on the employment website CareerBuilder.com. (Read LIBERTY TAX: Deceptive Franchise Ads?)
Within 48 hours (or so), all of the ads were either pulled or revised to be legitimate job ads.
It’s nice to know someone’s reading FranchisePick.com.
There were two major issues with the ads, and I questioned the ethics and even legality of some of Liberty Tax Services franchisee recruitment advertising.
The first issue is that the FTC prohibits running franchise ads masquerading as job ads
On January 30, 2006, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued Informal Staff Advisory Opinion 06-1, which addressed [...]
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LIBERTY TAX: Deceptive Franchise Ads?
The Liberty Tax Service franchise program is known for its aggressive and creative marketing – but has their franchise marketing gotten too creative? Has it crossed the legal line set by the FTC prohibiting deceptive advertising?
(above: screen shot from CareerBuilder.Com August 19, 2009)
Liberty Tax Service has been ranked the #3 franchise in Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500 for 2009, trailing only McDonald’s & Subway.
However, recent comments on a popular franchise website suggest that franchisee satisfaction with the huge tax prep chain may not live up to the hype (see Are LIBERTY TAX SERVICE Franchise Owners Happy?).
One such comment led me [...]
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Geeks On Call (GOCHE) Troubles Deepen
The Unhappy Franchisee post GEEKS ON CALL: System Crashing? Can They Reboot? reports more bad news for the once-promising now-troubled computer support franchise Geeks on Call.
Geeks on Call Board Member Douglas Glenn Resigned
Unhappy Franchisee reports that According to an 8K Report filed by Geeks on Call Holdings, Inc.(GOCHE) “On August 4, 2009 The Company received from Douglas Glenn his formal resignation from the Geeks On Call Holdings, Inc. Board of Directors.” Glenn also served as General Counsel and Secretary of Geeks on Call America, Inc., which he helped form in 1999.
Geeks on Call Holdings, Inc. (GOCHE) Could be Delisted
On July [...]
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Fast Food Mafia (Artwork)
Fast Food Mafia poster artwork posted on Flickr:
While searching around on Flickr I ran across this engaging artwork depicting franchise fast food icons as mafioso: Ron “The Don” McDonald with hitman Grimace, “The Colonel” Sanders, “Little Caesar,” Wendy “Gwendolyn,” and B.K. “The King.”
I have no idea what the context, meaning or purpose is and can’t quite make out the artist’s last name (Andrew Shirey? Jhirey?), but thought it was nicely done and interesting. Think of the product placement possibilities for this film franchise.
The image was uploaded on August 13, 2009 by TheRealEdwin and is licensed via Creative Commons.
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