CONCEPTS

BEAUTIFUL BRANDS: QSR Magazine Pulls BBI Articles

Responding to an UnhappyFranchisee.Com Media Alert for Beautiful Brands International (BBI), QSR magazine has taken more than a dozen news…

12 years ago

7-ELEVEN: Is 7-Eleven a Good Franchise to Own?

Is 7-Eleven a good franchise to own? We don’t know.  In fact, we don’t even understand how their unique franchise…

12 years ago

McDONALD’S Franchise Complaints

McDonald’s franchise owners are getting increasingly frustrated, according to a relatively small but telling franchisee survey by Janney Capital Markets.…

12 years ago

BEAUTIFUL BRANDS’ David Rutkauskas Defends BBI’s PR Claims

Beautiful Brands International (BBI) and its CEO, David Rutkauskas, have faced criticism from UnhappyFranchisee.com for providing what we believe to…

12 years ago

BEAUTIFUL BRANDS: UnhappyFranchisee.Com Letter to The Journal Record

UnhappyFranchisee.Com asked The Journal Record (in February of this year) to stop putting the public relations agenda of Beautiful Brands…

12 years ago

BEAUTIFUL BRANDS: UnhappyFranchisee.Com Email to The Journal Record

For the past several years, Beautiful Brands International (BBI) persuaded several media outlets to portray it as a vibrant, growing…

12 years ago

BEAUTIFUL BRANDS: THE SOUP KITCHEN Franchise Warning

The Soup Kitchen, a three-unit quickservice concept based in Tennessee, is the latest “partner brand” to be hyped by Beautiful…

12 years ago

BEAUTIFUL BRANDS: Why Franchise Bullying Backfires

David Rutkauskas, CEO of Tulsa-based Beautiful Brands International (BBI), publicly unleashed a string of insults and expletives on me that…

12 years ago

JONATHAN FORTMAN: Standing Up to Corporate Bullies Part 1

Beautiful Brands, David Rutkauskas & his attorney Robert Sartin are using any means possible to try to keep critics from…

12 years ago

MAC Tools Distributor Interview: Robert Wall, Jr.

MAC Tools distributor Robert Wall, Jr. regrets the day he signed up as a MAC Tools distributor. An experienced mechanic,…

12 years ago