The Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchise has a relatively high SBA loan default rate of 23%.
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According to the Small Business Administration, Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchisees received 32 SBA-guaranteed loans since 2001; 23% of those loans have been defaulted on by Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchise owners.
According to Entrepreneur, the Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchise chain has shrunk from 575 U.S. franchises in 2008 to 545 in 2012… a decline of 30 franchises or 5% of all U.S. franchises.
Despite the franchise failures in the Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchise program, Hungry Howie’s Pizza continues to solicit new franchisees on its website.
What the Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchise marketing page doesn’t disclose is that it’s likely that Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchise owners who received SBA loans may have collateralized their franchise loan with their houses or other personal assets, and nearly a quarter were unable to repay those franchise loans… despite serious incentive to do so.
Are you familiar with the Hungry Howie’s Pizza opportunity?
What do you think accounts for the SBA loan failure rate of Hungry Howie’s Pizza franchise owners?
What steps should Hungry Howie’s Pizza be taking to stop further franchise failures?
Has Hungry Howie’s Pizza taken serious action to address the problems that led to the 23% loan failures?
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you have a store in Steinhatchee Fl at 806 riverside dr, we vaction there have a condo, your manager Diana is so rude to her help yelling and cussing them every time we see her there she sits at a table with other people just baring orders, she is so rude to customers its like we are bothering her while she is on her lap top, one time our food was wrong the girl who was trying to fix it was very nice gray haired lady , she called to Diana who was sitting in dinning room not in uniform to help and looked at the girl ans said what the hell did you do now, the girl kept smiling and explained what happened Diana told us what do you want me to do you got food so we owe you nothing, this is not the first time we have seen her treat her help bad a few we have seen cry due to her, Dianas husband also works there and acts the same way intimidating the help and all he does is sit around and alk to people and yell at the help as they are working we also dont like his sexual talk to my wife and kids he often touches my wife rubbing her arms or back and if he ask my teen daughter for another hug not sure what I might do, so until you fix this problem we wont be back we have lots of friends who feel the same way thank you feed up Steinhatchee
I went to your store at 4511 grand blvd in new port Richey Florida
When I walked in to get my order sorry I called it in the order forgot to tell
You that I seen 1 of your employers punching all the company's equipment.
I could not believe what I seen. He was punching the outside of the pizza ovens
And putting dents in them. What kind of employees do you people have. And also my order was screwed up. I will never go in that store again you people need some
Real mgr!
I ordered a $20 pizza special from a new store on Bethelview Rd. in Cumming, Ga. to be delivered i waited for the pizza about 50 minutes to get the wrong order we were missing the bread sticks and the 2 liter of soda.My wife called the store to let them know where we talked to a manager named Christy. She offered no customer service or apology what so ever for the mistake. Moreover after much back and forth she offered up a free bread stick which i had already included in our order. This is unacceptable in my opinion as i now had to wait for the breadstick that i already ordered along with the drinks. Now my choice is to eat half a meal with no drinks or wait 20 additional minutes for the soda and the bread sticks and eat cold pizza. thank you Howie's i hope you do not continue to treat customers like this as you will be out of business in this area.Again, this was the worst customer service ever.
I have waited 3 hours for just a large supreme pizza; not only did I wait 3 hours but I got a cheese pizza. I didn't receive my jalapeño on the side. As well as all of that disaster the driver didn't give us our change and they didn't earn a tip in my opinion. I am extremely displeased with these actions and services. After I called back and talked to the manager still currently waiting 4 hours latter..... I decided to call again low and behold it says they are closed so I waited from 6 to 10:30 for absolutely nothing!! Pissed, worst experience ever!! Dont eat here!!! Especially delivery!
Your subs are terrible. You should tell people you dont use sub bread. Didnt exspect greesey pizza crust instead of bread. I will spend my hard earned money on
I put an order in at your store on Michigan Ave.in pensacola Fla.the driver did not only give me my change but he also bring the wrong order. And when i called the store to tell them(the so called manager)she told me that her driver said he had given me ALL OF MY CHANGE BUT THAT'S A COMPLETE LIE!!!! I WILL NEVER ABSOLUTELY NEVER DEAL WITH HUNGRY HOWIES EVEN AGAIN POOOOOOORRRRRR MANAGEMENT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The manager at the Haines City location is very rude and when I asked him to call me by my name, he repeatedly called me "bud". Very disrespectfull and unprofessional. When ordering a 1 topping pizza, I asked to split the topping half ham & half onions and was charged tax for a two topping pizza. That's dishonest and I'm sure against Florida tax laws. I called corporate to complain and have never heard back from them or the owner. Good pizza, louse Customer service. Basic business 101: when you upset a Customer they tell many more of their experience.
Got home only to find two warm pizzas with uncooked dough. When I showed the girl the pizza she says yeah we've been having problems with the deep dish pizzas getting done in our oven. I told her I wanted a refund and she said that they do not do refunds.
Go ahead and keep my 17.42 Hungry Howies. I bet that when the general public finds out that you do not issue refunds for your mistakes, (which they will) you will once again fail as a company.
I attempted to attach pictures of my latest meat lovers pizza or lack thereof. Last night I made a purchase at store number 2317, 5611A Old Shell Rd and University Blvd, Mobile Alabama, 36608
Once again VERY unhappy. # 1, Paid $14.25 ( Out off site ), but if its all it should be, I will pay that. It was sparsely dressed, once again, totally disappointing.
Just wanted to let you know, as i would as an owner and i will take my business elsewhere in the future.
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I ordered a pizza @ 6:00 pm well the time now is 9:30 pm I still don't have my pizza. I was told when called that I would have my pizza in 1 1/2 hour at the most and also not to call back. I waited 3 hours before I called back and the manager answered and got smart with me like it was my fault they were not here. He immediately asked if I wanted to cancell well I didn't but it's still not here this is sad. If you can't keep up with the orders why advertise all week that you will. This is bad business and I will never Order from there again and I will let all my 5000 Facebook friends know as well. #imfuriuos