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BURGER KING: Is BK Punishing Franchisees With Lawsuits?
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. Matthew 12:25
Last November, Burger King’s National Franchise Association, a group that claims to represent more than 80 percent of Burger King’s U.S. franchise owners, sued the parent company, alleging that Burger King Corporation was forcing them to price products below their cost. (Read: BURGER KING Franchisees [...]
AMWAY Partner Store Claims Embarrass Their IBOs
The Wall Street Journal, the largest and most influential newspaper of all time, is now partnering with UnhappyFranchisee.com, a web portal currently powered by a guy in a bathrobe speckled with English Muffin crumbs.
Founded in 1889, the Wall Street Journal has the largest circulation of any newspaper in America (2.1 million, including 400,000 paid online [...]
BEAR CLAW COFFEE: Dexter Shop Leaves Franchise
As the recession continues to pressure small business owners, some franchise owners are finding the restrictions placed on them by their franchisors are impairing their ability to compete. Several stories have cropped up in the news recently about franchise owners taking down their franchise signs in favor of going it alone.
In a recent story in [...]
CURVES: Can Indie Clubs Thrive Where Curves Failed?
Rande LaDue, distributor of PACE hydraulic exercise equipment, is seeing a fitness industry trend: independent express fitness clubs opening in markets and locations that could not sustain a Curves franchise.
PACE sells hydraulic exercise equipment like the machines used in Curves franchise clubs*. In fact, the first Curves club in Harlingen, TX originally used PACE [...]
PACE Express Circuit Training Equipment
An alternative to franchised fitness clubs, PACE provides equipment, training and support to individuals seeking to own and operate circuit training programs without the fees and restrictions of a franchise.
Rande LaDue is owner of Hydraulic Fitness Products, the worldwide exclusive distributor for the PACE and Kids PACE Express Circuit Training programs. PACE, originally called Hydra [...]
KITTY LITTER DELIVERY: Hot New Franchise?
Here’s a new franchise opportunity being promoted on Franchise Gator and elsewhere: KittyLitterDelivery.Com.
With a franchise fee that ranges from $2000 – $45,000 (depending on population), the Kitty Litter Delivery franchise requires an initial investment of between $7,050 – $74,425.
According to the Kitty Litter Delivery franchise marketing kit at their website, “KittyLitterDelivery.com was started by [...]
Frank Corso Wins Martin Luther King Award
Please join us in congratulating Frank Mitchell Corso for being honored with the Economic Development Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration Committee of of Nassau County.
Anyone who has had the privilege to work with Frank knows that he works tirelessly in a number of non-profit areas, including health issues, world hunger, [...]
Are More Franchisees De-branding, Going Independent?
The Great Clips in Albert Lea, MN’s Northbridge Mall is now The Image, an independent salon.
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Two veteran Great Clips stylists bought the location from none other than Great Clips founder David Rubenzer.
After consulting with Rubenzer (according to the Albert Lea Tribune), the former Great Clips employees decided to shed the franchise brand and reopen [...]
SPORT CLIPS Boasts Strong Franchise Rankings
Some of the Sport Clips franchise owners and other detractors commenting on UnhappyFranchisee.com obviously haven’t gotten the word: Sport Clips is a strong, fast-growing franchise chain that posted “solid same-store sales growth in 2009,” with (according to Sport Clips Founder & CEO Gordan Logan) a “strong business model.”
This Sport Clips press release, posted on PR [...]
14% of Florida Health Clubs Closed in 2008
258 of the more 1,800 registered health studios in Florida went out of business in 2008, according Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson.
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The Florida health club failure statistic is cited in an Florida Today article on the closing of the Ten Minute Gym location in Melbourne, FL. The location of the [...]
