Month: August 2008

(FranchisePick.Com)  Related Reading:
Snapped, Crackled & Flopped: RIP State College Cereality
 The Cereality Franchise Dead Pool: VOTE NOW!
Cereality Franchise Closes in 3 Months; Breaks Previous Record
How ‘Bout a Stone Cold Bowl of Reality?,  Reality, Surreality & Cereality

University of Pennsylvania students are supposed to be some of the smartest in the country.  It only took them 4 […]

Bob McQuillen is the consummate franchise professional, with many years of experience both as a franchise development executive and as a tanning salon franchise owner.  So when FranBest recently learned that Bob had relocated from the East Coast to the tropics of Nebraska to join a fast-growing franchise company called Tanworld, we knew that something […]

(FranchisePick.Com)  Related reading:  IS SILVER MINE SUBS A GREAT FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY?
As the famous cartoon said, on the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.  However, they can usually tell that you’re not really a franchise attorney.  
Unhappy franchisees or weasely ex-employees leaving comments for revenge tend to give themselves away.
Why don’t they believe you […]

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An enthusiastic recommendation for the Silver Mine Subs franchise appeared on a post about the much-maligned Quiznos Sub franchise (Quiznos Franchise Lawsuits Just Keep On Coming). 
Jeff claims that he’s a multiple unit owner of the small franchised sub chain, and heartily recommends buying one.
Jeff writes:  You should have bought a Silver Mine […]

(FranchisePick.Com) Don’t miss: COFFEE BEANERY: Secret Justice Franchisee Interview Part 1, COFFEE BEANERY: Secret Justice Franchisee Interview Part 2
In COFFEE BEANERY: Exec’s Trafficing Conviction Leads to Franchisee Legal Win Part 1, I recounted how Coffee Beanery V.P. Kevin Shaw’s dalliance into the secet underworld of blackmarket traffic cones had come back to […]

(FranchisePick.Com)  This week marks the end of the shared vision for creating a progressive, family-oriented Cuppy’s Coffee corporate office in Ft. Walton Beach, complete with on-site daycare.  
For some it’s the end of a dream… for others, just the shattering of an illusion.
Either way, many Cuppy’s employees Dale Nabors isn’t going out of […]

As we did for its predecessor Pure Weight Loss,  FranchisePick.com and Weight Loss Complaints (http://weightloss.franbest.com) will try to keep LA Weight Loss customers and employees informed notifications of LA Weight Loss center closings, rumors of upcoming closings , refund and complaint information.  Like Pure Weight Loss before it, LA Weight Loss prefers to remain silent, […]

(FranchisePick.com) Coffee Beanery Executive Vice President Kevin Shaw had a secret so deep and dark that his company would stop at nothing to keep it hidden… even if it meant breaking the law.
The son of Coffee Beanery founder and former head of the International Franchise Association Joanne Shaw had been convicted of felony trafficing.
No, […]

(FranchisePick.Com)  The cute Chik-fil-A “Eat Mor Chikin” campaign was based on the premise that cows would want you NOT to eat them, and would campaign for the demise of their barnyard rivals to save their own hide.  It had kind of an eerie and brilliant logic;  You actually didn’t mind eating them in the end […]

(FranchisePick.Com)  This over-the-top Beijing 2008 Olympics tagged McDonald’s commercial pits two Chinese children in a martial arts battle over the last remaining McNugget.  (In America, there would just be a lot of hair pulling and punching in the back seat.)  But the question remains:  Do they really eat McDonald’s with chopsticks in China?  Do they […]