Meal Assembly Watch

The hits just keep on coming!!

Looks like the Bellso’s are bound and determined to make some of my predictions come true! We’ll have to keep an eye on this, we might have the winner for the first franchise to close for 2009.

Michele Bellso and her ill-fated Make and Take Gourmet meal assembly kitchen franchise chain continue to provide compelling examples of how NOT to start and run a franchise chain. Their newest lesson plan includes a special guest appearance by, pound for pound, the hardest working franchise enforcement agency: the Maryland Attorney General.

Here are some of the allegations:
* Make & Take Gourmet Sold Unregistered Franchises
* Make & Take Gourmet Violated Franchise Disclosure Laws
* Make & Take Gourmet Skirted MD Escrow Requirements
* Make & Take Gourmet Made Illegal Earnings Claims

Make & Take Gourmet, Bellso Serve Up Franchise Fraud To Go

You can read more about the allegations and how Make and Take Gourmet failed to meet the requirments by reading the article on Unhappy Franchisee:
Make & Take Gourmet, Michele Bellso Accused of Franchise Fraud

Other Articles of Interest:

• Make & Take, franchisees battle in court
• Make & Take Gourmet to close store in Towne Center of Fayetteville
• Another Fifteen Franchisees Sue Dream Dinners Attorneys
• Are the corporate franchises sufficiently funded?
• Earth Fare Launches all Natural/Organic Meal Assembly Program.
• A few comments on meal assembly
• Chef Dane makes it’s debut in Arizona, with more stores to come.
• Make and Take Gourmet Becomes Carefree Cooking
• Dropped by Forbes but picked up elsewhere
• Too busy to cook? That’s no excuse