Predatory franchising and the franchise bar rely on you misunderstandding the core reason for your economic loss.
It’s not the brand that will save you a 2nd time.
Learn the real reasons behind franchise fraud.
Predatory franchising and the franchise bar rely on you misunderstandding the core reason for your economic loss.
It’s not the brand that will save you a 2nd time.
Learn the real reasons behind franchise fraud.
Sweet Jesus is not just another flash-in-the-pan predatory franchise scam, although it most assuredly is that. In spades.
Instructively, it is a recent example in a long line of web of lies-filled schemes that the franchisor-led trade associations spin in Canada and around the world which enables far greater evil to manifest.
Reminds me of the cocaine-fueled Just Desserts situation, before the homicide(s).
Happy Holy Week to all my franchise banker friends, as well.
Start the dialogue, record the franchisor’s every move and retain that information through successive ownership changes.
Start educating your members in the two businesses they run: the store and the franchise relationship.
I started WikiFranchise.org in Feb 2009. I keep it open although most wikis are closely held.
Those with a greater command of the information, wins every time.
Franchisees need to speak out to their local MPPs (member of provincial parliament).
Queen’s Park, Toronto, Canada
The independent franchisee association should make a legislative “wishlist” a priority.
Nothing, nothing makes a franchisor and his allies (Canadian Franchise Association, CFA et al) stand up and take notice.
Anyone who says talking to politicians is a waste of time, is working full-time for 3G, the CFA, its 1,199 other franchisors and their supporters: banks, legal service providers.
Start by suggesting the Ontario government reverse the onus on good faith in the Arthur Wishart Act.
Est. 1998
Mike Colle, MPP Eglinton Lawrence, Susan Kezios, President, American Franchisee Assocation, AFA and Les Stewart, Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators, CAFO, Wishart Act hearings, 2000.
Les’s expert witness testimony.
John Sotos, Sotos LLP and Susan Kezios, AFA, Wishart Act hearings, 2000
John’s expert witness testimony. Susan’s expert witness testimony.
Tony Martin MPP Sault Ste. Marie and Dr. Gillian K. Hadfield, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2000.
Dr. Hadfield’s expert witness testimony.
Three MPPs get together to try to make franchise fraud a criminal offence, Second Reading, 2010.
Les Stewart, ON Premier Kathleen Wynne and Don Morgan, 2015.
Q: Why should any public official help your family when (it appears) you don’t give two hoots about the other +70,000 franchisee families?
Contact me.
Kahala Brands:
Multi-unit and mom-and-pops. On or off the record.
Les: 705 737-4635. les.j.stewart-at-gmail.com
Several thousand, I’d imagine.
How? The moral hazard-riddled, Canada Small Business Financing Program.
Details:
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
The latest pathetic example is the entirely predictable Lick’s “fiasco”.
Please: give me a break. Like it hasn’t been happening for 30, 40 years with the full knowledge of the legal, banking and political communities. Take a look at WikiFranchise.org to hear those inconvenient life stories.
Sure when you lose big-time it hurts. but where were the tears for the thousands of others that went before you?
My experience is that the real reason many franchisees are upset about not being on the power end of the relationship. They got stuck with the shit end of the stick before they could stick the next guy.
And this may sound harsh, but they will double-cross anyone that offers help in good faith.
Drop the scales from your eyes and grow up.
I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it. Marshall McLuhan.