Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category

Fail to Plan Plan to Fail

Friday, September 5th, 2008

What is the impact of Grab N’ Go?
One aspect of the meal assembly industry that many didn’t take into account was the inability for many people to plan ahead. At least as far as dinner is concerned. Parents seem to have no problem in scheduling practice, recitals, doctor’s appointments, or paying their bills, but when […]

Dream Dinners struggles to make ends meet

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

The financial troubles at Dream Dinners continue and we now see that some at the top have taken on other jobs to try and keep the business afloat. Catering, building new business relationships or creating a new marketing strategy would seem likely choices, but that’s not how DD operates. They have chosen to sell antiques […]

Dream Dinners resorting to bullying to make money?

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

It’s no surprise that no one is buying into the concept of meal assembly anymore and the royalty stream is drying up. Because of that franchisors need to come up with new outlets for revenue. So what do you do? Generate better product? Cut waste and increase profits? Streamline to save time and labor?
Oh good […]

Meal Prep Dominos

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

As predicted the meal assembly franchisors are now facing the same problems that have been plaguing the local store owners. The once mighty franchisors that sold territories like hotcakes are now struggling just to stay afloat. Seems nobody’s buying what they’re selling any more (in more ways than one). And in many cases their lifeboat […]

A new kind of fast food

Monday, August 11th, 2008

The story is indeed a familiar one… If I read the dates correctly, the business has only been open for two months and based on previous track records, most of these business do get a lot of “curiosity” traffic for the first couple of months, especially if they are new to an area.
Hopefully their business […]