Archive for the ‘My Girlfriends Kitchen’ Category

Bad economy bites eateries

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

While some struggling businesses choose to downsize, others come up with new ways to market products. Some switch gears altogether, such as Shepardson. He recently closed his meal-assembly business, My Girlfriend’s Kitchen, when he realized the model wasn’t catching on, and decided to open a quick-casual seafood eatery.
But not many business owners can afford huge […]

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 […]

The Dinner A’Fare Acquires My Girlfriend’s Kitchen

Friday, July 11th, 2008

The Dinner A’Fare Acquires My Girlfriend’s Kitchen in Strategic Meal Assembly Move
The Dinner A’Fare Franchising, LLC. and MGFK, Inc. today announced that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which The Dinner A’Fare will acquire privately held My Girlfriends Kitchen, a leader in the prepared meal industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Atlanta, […]

The Dinner A’Fare botches it

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

In their post-buyout yet pre-takeover staging, the site for My Girlfriend’s Kitchen has been completely botched and is now left as a site which appears to need to pay it’s bills. The mgfk.com site greets would-be-meal-assemblers with the notice:
This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
OUCH!
From what owners say, this […]

How NOT to close a store

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I’m not bringing this up to single anyone out; rather I think there is a lot to learn from this post. I think it’s safe to say this is not the best way to go about closing down your store.
It’s interesting to note that the store was still selling gift certificates even though they were […]