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Franchised businesses actually default on their loans MORE than non-franchised ones.1 comment

Les Stewart wrote 2 months ago: Bankers act as cheerleaders for the franchise industry. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) … more →

Tags: U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Paul Steinberg

ATL restaurant franchises cost taxpayers millions

Grubb & Ellis Atlanta wrote 7 months ago: Atlanta Bread Company franchisees among worst-performing SBA borrowers By Russell Grantham The Atlan … more →

Tags: Atlanta, Retail, Brett Hunsaker, Grubb & Ellis, Commercial Real Estate, Franchises, Smyrna, Small Business Administration, atlanta bread company

Why does Blue MauMau exist?1 comment

Les Stewart wrote 7 months ago: To make people give up. To humiliate. To ridicule. To scapegoat.  To shame. To silence. Remember: th … more →

Tags: Shame - Humiliation

Franchisees Launch Pioneering ePurchasing Co-op

Doug Sanborn wrote 11 months ago: The announcement on the AAHOA deal was carried by numerous press outlets.  The article in Blue MauMa … more →

Tags: Company, Industry, AAHOA, BirchStreet, Procure To Pay, P2P, e-procurement, eProcurement, BirchStreet Systems

Franchisee venom regenerates in toxicity and volume at an exponential rate

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Hence, the Blue MauMau IPO‘s NPV is less-than zero for related attorneys. When the misrepresen … more →

Tags: Confusion & Deceit, Emotions, Venetian Ghetto, Toxicity

$50,000 award for franchisor's breach of good faith duty4 comments

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: A recent Ontario appeal court decision is very important for every Canadian franchisee. On September … more →

Tags: Bright Ideas, Ontario Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000, good faith, breadnet.ca, Timothy's Coffees of the World Inc., Salah v Timothy's Coffees of the World Inc., Jeff Lefler, National Bread Network

Do franchisee attorneys cheat at settlement time?3 comments

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: Attorneys provide services that economists classify as credence goods which are quite susceptible to … more →

Tags: Opportunism, Credence good Cheaters, quiznos, Richard Solomon, Franchise Remedies

Is Blue MauMau slowing or hastening franchising's decay?12 comments

Les Stewart wrote 1 year ago: The technology for dealing with franchising’s smell has changed. Steps 1-2-3: tradename system … more →

Tags: Franchising is a Technology, Confusion & Deceit, Advertising/Franchising science, John Kenneth Galbraith, Thomas Carlyle, Bullshit Baffles Brains

Is Blue MauMau a social media propaganda system?1 comment

Les Stewart wrote 2 years ago: Does Blue MauMau provide just a cynical illusion of debate? One of the ways you control what people … more →

Tags: Writers, concepts, Noam Chomsky

Franchising loves veterans because of their ability to get into debt2 comments

Les Stewart wrote 2 years ago: Deadbeat systems can be disguised as sweethearts very easily. Veterans should be very careful. Oscar … more →

Tags: A Confidence Game, Debtors are slaves

Empire of Illusion, Chris Hedges: The Death of God & franchise propaganda1 comment

Les Stewart wrote 2 years ago: The title caught my eye. Is franchising an empire built on brand-induced self-delusion? If it is, th … more →

Tags: Lawyers as businesspeople, Writers, Paid Services, Negroes: House and Field, Advertising/Franchising science, Franchise Veterans: A distinct people, John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the, Robert Zarco

Blue MauMau returns false First Opinions5 comments

Les Stewart wrote 2 years ago: Blue MauMau is like a laboratory that provides knowingly inaccurate readings. How a problem is frame … more →

Tags: Greatest lies are told in silence, WikidFranchise.org, Negroes: House and Field, Marshall McLuhan

It's a bluff: Predatory franchising is an antiquated technology

Les Stewart wrote 2 years ago: The industry elites know it’s curtains for predatory franchising. What gave them power (litiga … more →

Tags: Franchising is a Technology, Opportunism, Eating from the same bowl, fixer, WikidFranchise.org, FranchiseFool, The Wizard of Oz, WikidFranchise.org

MBE, The UPS Store executive behind bars2 comments

Les Stewart wrote 3 years ago: I started looking closely into franchising in 1998. One of my first big system investigations was Ma … more →

Tags: Information sharing, Writers, International Franchise Association, CFA, John Lorinc, IFA, Michael Martino, The UPS Store, Mail Boxes Etc.

What happens when franchisees turn off the Cash Flow tap?

Les Stewart wrote 3 years ago: I do not know, precisely. But the greatest “winners” may very well be those that  turn i … more →

Tags: Opportunism, Credence good Cheaters, A Confidence Game, ponzi scheme, FuwaFuwaUsagi, confidence game

No funds, No franchising -- No Future

Les Stewart wrote 3 years ago: More signs that franchising is dying. And dying quickly. But they will be happy to accept you money … more →

Tags: A Confidence Game, Unsafe at any Brand

Trade Show activism: Counterspin the Lies on their Selling Field

Les Stewart wrote 3 years ago: This ad appeared in today’s Toronto Star. Just a few points: 1. Contrary to the heading, you d … more →

Tags: Confusion & Deceit, media, Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators, canadian franchise association, YouTube, Royal Bank of Canada, Dan Farmer

Time trumps all franchise Fraud6 comments

Les Stewart wrote 3 years ago: Con men understand very well when their targets are the most vulnerable. It’s a game for them: … more →

Tags: Bright Ideas, A Confidence Game, SME Loan guarantee programs, michael webster, confirmation bias, http://bizop.ca, Phantom Dream, franchise fraud

Abolish the SBA: $70-83B reasons why it should happen4 comments

Les Stewart wrote 3 years ago: Private gain, Public loss. Banks, like all buisnesses, just love it when governments underwrite thei … more →

Tags: Predatory franchise lending, bankers, SME Loan guarantee programs, Canada Small Business Financing program, Veronique de Rugy, Cato Institute, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Small Firm Loan Guarantee, SFLG


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