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.
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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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I just thought u guys might wanna know what ur employees r up too after the store closes theres a store in river rouge mi.the general manager is sleeping with employees in the store and also smoking weed while shes doing deliveries i think that is very unprofessional
I placed a delivery order for the 5740 N ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAILORLANDO, FL 32810 Location.
The delivery service for this store is HORRIBLE! Firstly, you can never order delivery online, because it never works. I ordered my food around 3:30pm, and stated I would pay by cash, then I called back about 10 minutes later and paid for my meal by debit card. At 4:45, I called the store and asked if my order was on it's way. The person told me that they were limited on drivers and would get my order out soon. I re-informed them that my apartment was at the Forest City Road entrance to Magnolia Court Condos, and my unit was directly across from the day care center. I called again at 5:05pm and I was told my order was already being delivered. The driver arrived at 5:19pm and I gave him a $6 tip for a very late order. I'm truly disappointed by the online ordering service and delivery service for the store. Not a good experience at all!
Where's my pizza at 930 they brought me the wrong pizza to 1105 and I got the correct pizza yet
I order from the store in river rouge mich all the time. Same thing lg chz pep mush w garlic crust. And a lg antipasto salad with blue chz. Never a problem. The pizza is very good and salads r amazing. But today was a disaster. Took 75 min to even get our food. Their only 7 blocks from me. Being late was not a huge deal but my salad was literally a small handful.of lettuce and slices of cheese and salami not chopped up butslices a few black olives and that was it. Worst salad ever. Someone needs to contact that store. I eat there all the time. But im thinking about going a lil farther for my carryout food. There is a jets close by. Id rather stay w hungry howies. But not w food like this. Contact me if u have any more questions. Craig. [redacted]
I would like to start out to say I order from this location gave me bad service not to mention I was cussed out by the manager of this location 2934 US Hwy 27, Sebring, FL 33870 and I would greatly appreciate it just as soon as somebody receive this email to give me a call back 863-838-4917 something needs to be done about this as soon as possible cuz he charged my business card a manager is talking to the owner does not need to be speaking like this he is very very unprofessional language
Went to Texas corners mi branch which is off eight street. Saw kid working in back stretched out on top if huge flourbags with his cell phone above his head on his phone will not go back there makes you wonder what else going on.there were no other customers there. I can see why.
This company needs an overhaul like undercover boss or something. The CEO of this company needs to get it together
The store on 98 N Lakeland, Florida 00118....I called them for delivery, in which they have delivered to me plenty of times, only to be told 40 minutes later on an order that was confirmed to be here in an hour that we dont deliver to you....it was very unprofessional....they are one street over! Highly upset I have to order from another location and wait another hour! Makes me wish I would have ordered pizza from an entirely different chain! And now because of their mistake I have to wait for my money to be refunded on my card.....Im a very patient person and I hardly get upset though I stayed calm over the phone with them, I am upset...nothing was done to rectify the situation but a sorry and rush off of the phone! Cookie Chip whatever her name was tries, the manager should have been the one to call me back and make me aware of that.
We built out a Hungry Howie's store in West Lafayette last year and still have not received the bulk of the money owed us. Contrary to assurances by the corporate folks, the franchisee did not have his financing in place before signing the contract and is still "struggling" to get his loan approved. Of course, the corporate people who solicited our bid and facilitated the contract say there's nothing they can do. So if you own a business or work for a business that has the "opportunity" to provide products or services to anything or anyone having to do with Hungry Howie's ... I would avoid doing so at all costs! In fact, I would even go so far as to tell my competitors to run as well. Hungry Howie's as a corporation obviously doesn't care about doing the right thing and thus they also don't care that their name's damaged. Why would anyone trust them to adequately vet and then train their franchisee's to properly prepare the food they're selling?
I was at the only one in live oak fl. This is so nasty the colored man very wash his hands or put gloves on and wipe his nose and then made my pizza I told him no way he said my cooties will be killed with this hot oven .I was shocked also there bedroom had poo on the toilet and pee on the floor nasty. No healthy outcome here I bet I am calling the health board on them nasty greasy pizza and subs.