Archive for the ‘Franchise’ Category

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 […]

Dinner by Design, closing the doors in 4 days

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

In mere days, September 1st to be exact, Dinner by Design will exist in name only and even that is somewhat debatable at this stage. To celebrate the year anniversary of buying out the franchise business from Julie Duffy, Dinner by Design will close shop, have the owners sign an agreement to mutually let each […]

David Bellso ditches meal prep marketing ties

Monday, August 25th, 2008

It’s looks like Make & Take Gourmet has suffered another loss. In conjunction with closing one of the corporate stores it appears they have shuttered their meal prep marketing branch as well. It’s been several days now and the mealprepmarketing.com site just doesn’t answer. Could be a server glitch, could be admin oversight, could be […]

New Hartford “Make & Take Gourmet,” to see change in name and services

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Looks like we have a runaway! Seems one of the Make & Take Gourmet owners is going to ditch the name and give it a go on their own. It will be interesting to see how many other franchise owners break away…
NEW HARTFORD - While the owners of “Make & Take Gourmet” in New Hartford […]

Under-Capitalization Is The Single Biggest Reason For Franchisee Failure?

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

The post itself isn’t all that meaningful, basically it’s a statement of the obvious, but the comments are the meat of the conversation.

They didn’t fail for a number of reasons and chief among them was that they had a better plan. Some even had a proven system. If they followed the system, they didn’t fail. […]