The Rita’s Italian Ice franchise has a relatively high SBA loan default rate of 23%.
The Rita’s Italian Ice franchise system was sold to private equity group McKnight Capital Partners in 2005. Then in late 2011, investment firm Falconhead Capital bought a controlling interest.
Nearly a quarter of the Rita’s Italian Ice franchise owners who received SBA loans, some of whom may have collateralized their franchise loan with their house or other personal assets, were unable to repay those franchise loans… despite serious incentive to do so.
According to Entrepreneur magazine, the Rita’s Italian Ice franchise system has maintained its size, with 540 U.S. franchises in 2008 and 544 in 2011. However, that doesn’t mean that franchises didn’t fail during that period (and were replaced by new franchisees) or that Rita’s franchises weren’t resold at a loss to new owners.
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