Comments on: RICKY’S CANDY: Message from Donald William Cheng

By: RICKY’S CANDY, CONES & CHAOS FRANCHISE : Unhappy Franchisee

RICKY’S CANDY, CONES & CHAOS FRANCHISE : Unhappy Franchisee — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:01:38 +0000

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By: RICKY’S CANDY: Why’d the Princeton Store Close? : Unhappy Franchisee

RICKY’S CANDY: Why’d the Princeton Store Close? : Unhappy Franchisee — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:18:50 +0000

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By: Former Owner

Former Owner — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:24:46 +0000

Mr. Cheng,

Were you ever able to get in touch with your franchisees that are still operating? We are wondering if you were able to lend them some support or even maybe help them out with your expertise that you claim you have in your previous e-mails. In your e-mails you sound like a really smart business man, Why don;t you try and help them before they go OUT OF BUSINESS! Feel free to respond. I am sure we would love to hear your answer or do you have to wait for Richard C. Baber to get back from his third honeymoon.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:10:22 +0000

overwhelmed, Mr. Cheng?

By: Former Store Owner

Former Store Owner — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:46:50 +0000

Heard he got married again. Just proves that there’s a sucker born every minute. Let’s see, in a few short months that will be ex-wife #3……nice.

By: Former Store Owner

Former Store Owner — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:45:47 +0000

I don’t know how Rick Barber or Charles Alario sleep at night. Rick Barber could tell me it’s raining outside and I walk outside and get wet and I still wouldn’t believe him. Most stores were paying (attempting to pay) $10,000 to $15,000 per month rent. Ah, hello! Doing $5,000 to $6,000 per week means that 2 to 3 weeks each month were going towards rent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shame on you. I’d like to sick Arnold Diaz from Channel 2 on you, you thief.

By: Former Owner

Former Owner — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:04:53 +0000

Mr. Cheng,

What does the current economy have to do with paying your Sales Tax to the State? Just in case you don’t know Sales Tax is received when a customer makes a purchase. That money was already paid to the owners of the store so it has absolutely nothing to do with the ecomonomy. What did the owner of the store in Pricneton who is none other than, guess who RICHARD C. BARBER

By: previous owner of Ricky's Candy, Cones & Chaos

previous owner of Ricky's Candy, Cones & Chaos — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:09:45 +0000

I am sure all of the store owners at one time or another received phone calls at their stores from vendors looking for Rick Barber. They would call the stores because Rick Barber did not even have the decency of guts to tell them the t ruth. The truth being that he had no money to pay the bill that particular month because his CORPORATE store in Princeton was not making money.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:46:11 +0000

Mr. Cheng, in Franchise Pick you wrote the following statement…..
“The Princeton Store is undergoing a restructuring and is out of bankruptcy”.

Please consult with your legal counsel prior to writing such inaccurate statements for all of public to see. The Princeton Store’s bankruptcy case was thrown out of court. The judge strip Rick Barber of the bankruptcy protection it had provided him since his filing back in December 2008. By you writing “is out of bankruptcy”, you are following the footsteps of Mr. Barber and Mr. Alario in their scheme to deceive. Your intention is to let unsuspecting people believe that Rick Barber has made whole on all his debt to his long list of creditors when in fact no such thing has occurred.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:36:04 +0000

Donald, you simply restating and and rehashing the past 4 years of Rick Barber and Charles Alario recordings. Unfortunately, there has never been 1 cent of profit from the operation of a Ricky’s Candy Cones and Chaos store.

Even in the best of times the Princeton store was losing over $100,000 per year in 2005 and 2006. See pages 58 and 59. in the attached link.

http://www.secinfo.com/d19T7u.u4.htm

The strange part is what are you and Rick still fighting for??? There is no brand equity here with all the closed/under financed stores, litigation, and more bad press every day.