Dickey’s Barbecue Pit: The Musical is the satirical, unauthorized response to the Dickey’s Barbecue Pit franchise success story. It features Chris Kelley, the Dancing Dean of Dickey’s Barbecue University. Just in time for Oscar season! Please watch, hare, repost and add your review below.
(UnhappyFranchisee.Com) DBRI, the Dallas-based franchisor of Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, sells families and individuals the dream of joining their “franchise family” and investing their futures into a Dickey’s Barbecue Pit franchise. They portray themselves as having a passion for barbecue, a technologically advanced restaurant system, and a support team that really, really cares about franchisee success.
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit: The Movie is our response to DBRI’s aggressively promoted Dickey’s Barbecue Pit success story… told using the sweet dance moves shown in the training videos Dickey’s publicly posts daily on YouTube. Dickey’s training videos have no copyright verbiage or confidentiality warning… in fact they include links to social media with a gracious invitation to share.
Whether to invest in a Dickey’s Barbecue Pit franchise is a personal and family decision.
However, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enacted The Franchise Rule so that prospective franchise owners would have access to information necessary for making an informed decisions.
In our opinion, Dickey’s management, its in-house legal department and its highly paid franchisor attorneys have effectively deprived prospective Dickey’s franchise owners from hearing the experiences and opinions of current and former franchise owners – especially those who have failed.
Dickey’s franchise owners and employees, past and present, have expressed their fears of retaliation and litigation if they share their opinions with the media or prospective franchise owners.
(Ironically, DBRI does not hold itself to the confidentiality standards of most franchisors, as it posts operational manuals and internal training videos on publicly accessible sites without confidentiality notices or password protection. See DICKEYLEAKS Dickey’s Barbecue Pit Confidential Material Available Online)
It’s up to us to warn our fellow citizens so that they can make informed decisions:
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Yes, and in 4 years have had 5 franchise directors, most without any notification.
Dickeys barbecue is a scam. You have warned not to do business with them.
The truth of the matter is most of the franchises I meet when we purchased our franchise should not have been approved. We walked into DICKEYS with the greatest of interest and told them what we could comfortably afford to invest " approximately 150k " and were told that is was absolutely doable, 6 months later after construction issues " thier referred General Contractor steals our 75k downpayment and major construction issues" we where 350k in debt !!
Then after 18 months struggling to keep the doors open they approved another franchise 5 miles down the road from my location and just killed our business. So now we are bankrupt, broke, depressed and not only lost all our material possession we lost our GOOD NAME in our community, our church, and even our family. DICKEYS doesn't just take all your money and bleed you dry they take your respect !!!!
100+ stores closed in a year.