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GEEKS ON CALL Franchise Owner Phelps Terminated

May 5, franchisee Jeff Phelps received an email telling him his right to own his 20 Geeks On Call franchises had been terminated. Suddenly, one of Geeks on Call's biggest success stories was trying to figure out how to continue to support his staff in the field and service the customer base he had built up in his Chicago and Washington, D.C. territories. In a story in the Hampton Roads Business Journal (Scarlet letter “e” for Geeks), franchisee Phelps claims the company is intentionally trying to put him out of business both in retaliation for his participation in an unsuccessful lawsuit against ...

Deadly Myths of Franchising

How can franchisors keep from creating unhappy franchisees?  How can you keep from becoming one?  Learn the Deadly Myths of Franchising...

CUPPY’S: Franchisees Ambush Dale Nabors

Alicia & Ricky Benefield paid Cuppy's Coffee $160,000. As of yesterday, they had received a banner and some training for their investment. As of today, they received a banner, some training, and the satisfaction of pinning Cuppy's CEO Dale Nabors to the Colbert County Courthouse door. The Benefields and fellow Cuppy's Coffee victim Pinky Legaspi made the trip to Muscle Shoals, AL to confront Nabors, who has been hiding out and avoiding phone calls from scores of angry franchisees, ex-employees, vendors, creditors and FL law enforcement since the house of cards known as Cuppy's Coffee came tumbling down. Nabors is out on bail from ...

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