TROPICAL SMOOTHIE CAFÉ Franchise Loan Defaults Overstated, Says Report
Tropical Smoothie Café franchise loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration have a 23.58% failure rate, according to an SBA
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CULVER’S Franchise Accused of Racism
Culver’s franchise entity, Culver Franchising System, Inc., is being sued for alleged racial discrimination against two African-American franchise owners who
Read MoreBEAUTIFUL 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
Read More7-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
Read MoreMcDONALD’S Franchise Complaints
McDonald’s franchise owners are getting increasingly frustrated, according to a relatively small but telling franchisee survey by Janney Capital Markets.
Read MoreBEAUTIFUL 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
Read MoreBEAUTIFUL 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
Read MoreBEAUTIFUL 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
Read MoreBEAUTIFUL 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
Read MoreBEAUTIFUL 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
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