The Case for staying Single
Unsafe at any Speed
- Franchisee abandons their investment
- Franchises aren’t selling
- Franchisor cashs out
- Franchisor chooses to do nothing when told of investor losses
- Franchisor negligent in not protecting tradename
- Free-fall in fast-food industry worth
- Good money after bad
- Insolvency
- Legalized extortion
- Low investor confidence
- Ludicrous demands
- Massive defaults
- Money pit franchise
- New franchisor may be nastier than the old one
- Only 3 ways out: resell (next loser), independence (be sued) or abandon (bankruptcy)
- Operating losses from Day 1
- Personal guarantees cause good money to go after bad
- Piling on: franchisor can afford a few awards but not hundreds
- Portrait of a franchisor
- Refusal to renew contract
- Stores shuttered
- Terminate or buy off franchisee leaders
- Terminated by form letter
- Termination of franchisee, mass
- Termination of franchisee, single
- Tip of the iceberg
- Unbridled corporate power
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