Business Risks index (alphabetical)
ANALOGY: Human death that occurs under certain situations is investigated by a competently trained medical specialist. Franchises that do not achieve financial health can be studied in a similar manner. WikiFranchise's risk indexing system suggests franchised and non-franchised business do not have similar risk profiles at all. The majority occur during the relationship when the danger is difficult to remedy.
- $50,000 Ontario Appeal award for one franchisee's pain and suffering
- 1,001 ways to make your life miserable
- 1/3 franchises do well, 1/3 break even & 1/3 lose money
- 100 per cent of settlements have gag orders
- 101 ways to terminate a contract
- 1st generation of investors knowingly sacrificed
- 2 per cent of valid claims make it to Trial
- 30 different programs of kickbacks, shelf allowances and inside money
- 44 charges of professional misconduct
- 75 per cent of new franchise systems die within 10 years
- 80 per cent of food distributed by 2 vertically-integrated groups of companies in Ontario, Canada
- 95 per cent of legal fees are paid by franchisors
- A man in debt is so far a slave
- Able to finance and sell negative cash flow franchise on crooked appraisals
- Abolish the FTC Rule
- Abuse of business, regulatory & political authority can destroy people
- Abusive relationships of all kinds affects people deeply
- Academic research
- Academic scorn
- Accept the new contract or you're terminated
- Access to justice
- Accounting fraud
- Accounting, creative
- Activism over the internet
- Activists
- Ad hominem attack
- Advance-fee fraud
- Advertising fund buys franchisor’s assets
- Advertising fund paid to executives
- Advertising fund put into general franchisor's coffers
- Advertising fund use disagreements
- Advertorial
- Advice from franchise lawyer only
- Affinity fraud
- Affordable, early and non-legal dispute resolution mechanism
- Afraid to talk
- Agree with proposed law or you get nothing
- Air of desperation
- Alberta Franchise Act, Canada
- Alcoholism
- Alien Tort Claims Act
- Alpha Male attorney
- Alternate dispute resolution, ADR
- American Association of Franchisees and Dealers, AAFD
- American Bar Association, Forum on Franchising
- American Dream
- American Franchisee Association, AFA
- Anchoring and adjustment heuristic sometimes leads to very bad decisions
- Anchoring and adjustment heuristic sometimes leads to very bad decisions
- Andrei Oudovikine
- Anger
- Anonymous: leaderless on-line resistance subculture
- Antitrust violations
- Any pretence will do
- Apologists
- Appearance of government oversight
- Appraisals grotesquely inflated
- Appraisals, highest one chosen by lender
- Appraiser and lender has cozy, repeat-business relationship
- Appropriate franchise law
- Arbitrate or litigate?: Franchisors will do what is in their best interests
- Arbitration award overturned
- Arbitration conceals facts from public
- Arbitration decision can't be appealed
- Arbitration firms have repeat business from franchisors
- Arbitration is a private law that is much more influenced by money
- Arbitration, heavy upfront fees
- Arbitration, mandatory and binding
- Arbitration, transparent
- Architectural conservation
- Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000, Canada
- Arthur Wishart Amendment Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2010, Canada
- Ask an experienced copper, regional banker or general lawyer what they think of franchising
- Asking the fox if the henhouse is safe
- Assault
- Asset appraisals inflated
- Asset-based lending
- Assets put in spouse's name
- Assets sold for fraction of cost or value
- Assuming a busy store is a profitable store can be very dangerous
- Attempt to pull down website/weblog/wiki
- Attempts to rehabilitate image
- Attorney seeds the destruction of his own client's case
- Australia Franchise Act
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, ACCC
- Australian state franchise legislation, 2010
- Authority and credibility of the state used to favor a specific corporation
- Auto dealers did not help strengthen general franchise law
- Award-winning franchisees
- Awareness
- Bad faith and unfair dealings
- Badge of Authority persuasive technique
- Bailiff throws equipment and supplies in street
- Bait advertising
- Ban corporate and union political donations
- Ban disclosure requirements as they give investors a false sense of security
- Ban fast food toys
- Ban gag orders
- Ban junk food
- Ban mandatory arbitration in franchise contracts
- Ban waivers of legal rights
- Bandwagon effect
- Bank account access by franchisor
- Bank Act, Canada
- Bank alerts franchisor of problem franchisee
- Bank allows franchisor to take money from franchisee's account over the lending agreement limit
- Bank calls in debt
- Bank card skimming fraud
- Bank CEO's pay
- Bank fails to inform Privacy Commission of breach
- Bank fraud
- Bank has a higher standing as creditor than fraud victims
- Bank of Montreal, BMO
- Bank of Nova Scotia, Scotiabank
- Bank pays franchisor with franchisee's funds
- Bank presents offer with material facts missing
- Bank refuses to provide mandatory documents
- Bank renegotiates loan with greater personal guarantees than allowed by law
- Bank stock price seemingly impervious to scandal
- Bank sues person they gave documents to
- Bank sues person who reported privacy violations
- Bank violates federal privacy laws
- Bank won't finance deal because they know something you don't
- Banker says franchised is less risky than independent business
- Bankrupt is bankrupt whether you put $1 or $1 million in at first
- Bankruptcies, several
- Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy lawyer going bankrupt
- Bankruptcy was inevitable the moment the contract was signed
- Bankruptcy, both franchisee and spouse
- Bankruptcy, first the company and then you personally
- Banks
- Banks allegedly mastermind fraud
- Banks are industry cheerleaders
- Banks as fraud victim
- Banks collude
- Bar associations
- Barfblog.com: the straight goods on food safety
- Bargaining
- Basic legal standards inapplicable to franchisees
- Be your own boss
- Beggars can't be choosers: take what you're given and shut up
- Believe and Succeed mantra
- Bernard Madoff-type scheme
- Best to leave the country for awhile
- Betrayal
- Beyond the Tipping Point
- Bias: Fundamental attribution error (overvalue personality versus situation)
- Bias: Illusory superiority (overestimate positive and underestimate negative traits)
- Big Auto
- Big Franchising
- Big Grocery
- Big Grocery's food safety record
- Big Oil
- Big Pharma
- Big Tobacco
- Blackmail
- Blame the victim (Just-world effect)
- Blame themselves
- Blocking for the industry
- Blogs
- Blogs: most effective means to justice
- Blue chip
- Bob “Bhupinder” Baber
- Bootstrapping the assets of a corporation
- Boycott
- Boycott jurisdiction that has pro-franchisee policies
- Brand backlash: franchisees suffer because brand owners screw up
- Branding mumbo jumbo
- Breach of contract
- Breach of duty
- Breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing
- Breach of trust
- Bribery
- British Franchise Association, BFA
- Broken relationships, ruined lives and alienated children
- Build up the business so they can take it
- Bullshit baffles brains
- Bullying
- Business Development Bank of Canada, BDC
- Business model had never created adequate investor returns
- Buy local products
- Buying a job
- Buying an existing outlet even riskier than a new one
- Buying co-operatives
- Buying efficiencies never make it to franchisees
- Call for a public enquiry
- Call for franchise law
- Call for state to investigate their undue influence
- Call to investigate refusal to enforce their code of ethics
- Can’t sue
- Can’t talk to media
- Canada Small Business Financing Act
- Canada Small Business Financing program
- Canada: An unwise place to invest
- Canada: An unwise place to invest
- Canada: white-collar crime haven
- Canada-U.S. relations
- Canadian Alliance of Franchise Operators, CAFO
- Canadian Broadcasting System, CBC
- Canadian competition rules a farce
- Canadian Franchise Association, CFA
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CIBC
- Canadian securities regulation weakest link into North American capital markets
- Cancer
- Cannibalization of sales
- Cannon fodder
- Can't afford to sue
- Can't buy local producers' products
- Can't buy lower priced products
- Can't collect on court decision
- Can't sue: must arbitrate as defined by franchisor
- Can't talk to politicians
- Career Limiting Move, CLM
- Casinos used to launder money
- Catastrophic sales decline
- Cat's-paw: being used unwittingly to do another’s bidding
- Caveat emptor canard
- Celebrity endorsement
- Central commissary
- Centralized order taking system problems
- CEO pay package
- Change in store format
- Changes in established franchisor policy results in termination
- Chapter 11
- Character assassination
- Charade of public consultations
- Charity without hustling customers and franchisees
- Check kiting
- Chief Counsel, IFA
- Child labour
- Childhood obesity
- Churning (serial reselling)
- Civil actions are never heard before a jury in Canada
- Civil service refuses to answer request for information
- Class action lawsuits are an unproven form of remedy
- Class action lawsuits benefit lawyers, not franchisees
- Class action lawsuits forbidden in contract but allowed by Courts
- Class action only as good as the lawyers involved
- Class-action dead end
- Class-action lawsuits: lawyers take majority of risks & spoils
- Clinical depression
- Close store if staff unionizes
- Close ties: IFA & CFA
- Co-branding
- Co-branding forces untried/loser business model onto existing franchisees
- Co-branding promise works out for franchisors
- Co-branding: hitching future to a dying star?
- Code of ethics, a joke
- Code of ethics, almost never enforced
- Coerced waiver of jury trial
- Coerced waiver of legal rights, self
- Coerced waiver of legal rights, self & descendants
- Coerced waiver of punitive damages
- Cognitive Dissonance: stress caused by holding 2 contradictory opinions at 1 time
- Cognitive fluency: what is seen simpler, is perceived to be more true
- Collaborators
- Collective bargaining
- Collective bargaining used in franchise agreements
- Comedy
- Comments on article are interesting
- Commercially reasonable exercise of discretion
- Commission with investigation, publication and enforcement powers
- Communities ban franchises
- Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, CCAA
- Company man
- Company-owned stores given preferential treatment
- Competence
- Competition Act, Canada
- Competition Bureau
- Competition rulings
- Complaint letter to franchisor's trade association
- Concept is a fad
- Confidence by the public is a necessity for any commercial activity
- Confidence game
- Confidence in judiciary eroded
- Confidentiality agreements masks opportunism
- Confidentiality provisions help all parties except the majority of franchise investors
- Conflict of interest
- Conflict of interest, trustee/consultant
- Congressional Hearings, United States, 1997
- Conspiracy
- Conspiracy to commit fraud
- Conspiracy to market and sell a doomed to failure franchise
- Conspiracy to use unlawful means
- Contempt for democracy
- Contempt for the law
- Contempt of court
- Contingency fees
- Contracts across systems are virtually the same
- Contracts seen as unenforceable or void
- Controlling, trapping or defeating the franchisee
- Converted managers into franchisees
- Convicted felon
- Convicted fraud artist
- Convicted of spousal assault
- Cooperative business model
- Cooperative purchases by franchisees
- Cooperatively owned franchise system
- Corporate governance
- Corporate stores competing with franchisees
- Corporate stores get better deal than franchisees
- Corruption
- Cost of doing business
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Costs of scandals
- Counterfeiting
- Coupon programs (forced) destroy franchisee margins
- Courage
- Court decision favorable to franchisees
- Court decision never covers all franchisee's loses
- Courts extremely picky about shoddy disclosure practices
- Courts misunderstand relationship
- Courts refuse to renegotiate any business deals
- Credence good
- Credence good fraudulent expert
- Credence goods: taking advantage of the innocents
- Credibility
- Credit card fraud
- Credit note system
- Crime enabled by solicitor:client privilege
- Criminal charges
- Criminal interest rates
- Cross-default provisions (lose one store, you lose them all)
- Crown corporation
- Cruellest lies are often told in silence
- Cult-like activities
- Culture means much more than $ to some people
- Cultural louts
- Current franchisees can’t talk freely
- Customer list control moves from franchisee to franchisor
- Cyber-bullying
- Danger to self or others
- Darrell Donafon
- Dave Michael & Tony Fammartino
- David and Goliath story
- Deadbeat systems exported oversees to the unsuspecting
- Deanne de Leeuw
- Death
- Death threats
- Death wish
- Death-spiral financing
- Deborah Williams & Richard Welshans
- Debt is nullified
- Debt traps
- Deceit
- Deceptive business practices
- Deceptive marketing practices
- Deemed reliance
- Definition of what is a franchise is very broad
- Defrauded more than once
- Defrauding the public
- Dehumanization
- Delaware-based corporation
- Delay costs economy millions and millions
- Delay delivery to price fix
- Delusional or magical thinking
- Democracy: 4 wolves and 1 sheep decide what's for dinner
- Denied expansion for inappropriate reasons
- Deny expansion because of media, political or association involvement
- Deposit money not refunded
- Designed to fail as franchise investment
- Desperate to sell any franchise for any price
- Detrimental reliance
- Development agents really just mini-franchisors
- Development deal collapses before risk shifted from initial investors to sub franchisees
- Development deal hyperbole
- Dickhead franchisees
- Difference between appraised and market value equipment and leaseholds funds fraud
- Different deals for different dealers
- Difficult to trust again
- Difficulty in maintaining long-term relationships
- Digital advocacy
- Dire warnings unsubstantiated with data
- Disabled veteran
- Disbarred
- Disclosure document certificate
- Disclosure document is deficient
- Disclosure document is so deficient it is ruled no disclosure
- Disclosure document must be registered and valid
- Disclosure document must disclose all material facts
- Disclosure document must include third party contracts (suppliers)
- Disclosure document: best franchisor selling tool
- Disclosure document: one, bound and delivered at the same time
- Disclosure documents never given
- Disclosure documents not given within proper timeframe
- Disclosure laws do not reduce fraud
- Disclosure laws: 10 per cent solution
- Disclosure laws: false sense of security
- Discount programs destroy retail margins but boost wholesale profits
- Discrimination
- Disgraced attorney
- Disgruntled
- Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution means franchisee goes broke
- Disputes heard on franchisor’s home turf
- Dissent
- Divide and conquer
- Divorce
- Do the old franchisees get the same deal as the new ones?
- Do what we say or we'll sue you
- Documents changed without authorization
- Dog and Pony show
- Don’t buy any franchise?
- Don’t owe your lawyer money
- Don't owe your franchisor money, ever
- Don't use a brand name franchise lawyer
- "Down-and-dirty CCAA"
- Drive them out of business
- Drive-thru
- Drop the lawsuit and we’ll give you what you want
- Drug distribution
- Due diligence
- Due diligence cannot predict or prevent post-sale franchisor opportunism losses
- Due diligence cannot stop a predatory franchisor in the future
- Due diligence is irrelevant
- Duty of care
- Duty of utmost good faith
- Duty to maintain a safe workplace
- Duty to Sovereign
- E. coli
- Earnings claim made
- Easy credit fuels worthless system sales
- Easy to sell around a disclosure document
- Economics
- Economics of monopoly (not free market)
- Economies of scale promise
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emails, unauthorized sent to franchisees
- Emails, unauthorized sent to suppliers
- Embezzlement
- Emboldens industry bottom-feeders
- Emotional collapse
- Employee payments threatened
- Employee retaliates against food manufacturer by tampering with retail food products
- Employee retirement funds evaporate
- Employees misclassified as franchisees or independent contractors
- Encroachment (too many outlets put in territory)
- Encroachment, internet
- Endorsed mediation program, in 5 years used zero times
- Enron-like scandals
- Entire agreement clauses
- Envy
- Epiphany
- Evergreen renewals
- Everything’s got a crack in it: that's where the light comes in
- Eviction cheaper and faster than termination
- Evidence in court proceedings is destroyed
- Evil: the exercise of power to intentionally harm people
- Evils of the system defined in 1971 (Grange Report)
- Exclusive territory endangered
- Excuse du jour
- Excuse du jour, tight credit
- Executives create their own golden parachute
- Exempt from Ontario franchise law obligations
- Expand with another store across the street or we’ll sell to new franchisee
- Expands too quickly
- Exponential increase in franchise bar services ($ and influence)
- Expropriation without compensation
- Externalities: cheap business decision when someone else pays
- Extortion
- Extreme losses call for extreme remedies
- F.T.C. Public Comments, United States, 1997
- Faggot
- Fair dealings: treat assets as if they were their own
- False assumptions, multiple
- False earnings claims
- False hope
- False sense of security: doing pre-sale due diligence
- False success claims
- Family donates labor to keep franchise going
- Farce
- Fast food is addictive
- Fat tax: raising the cost of bad food choices
- Fear mongering
- Fear mongering to clients increases industry fee market
- Fear of bankruptcy delays the hard decisions
- Fear, distrust, hate and contempt
- Federal insolvency laws used to shirk legal claims
- Fee reduction always has a catch
- Fee surprises at settlement time
- Feeble enforcement and prosecution
- Fell in love with the concept as a consumer, bought the franchise
- Feudal relationships
- Few barriers to entry
- Fiduciary duty
- Financial failure of first franchisee a material fact to the second
- Financing with 401k money is totally reckless
- Fine young cannibal
- First we kill the lawyers…
- Fixing sporting events
- Follow the money: franchising re-distributes (not creates) wealth
- Food criticism
- Food poisoning causing injury or death
- Food pulled from retail shelf (health hazard)
- Food safety
- Food supply security concerns
- Food tampering
- Food trucks
- Forced couponing
- Forced onto public assistance
- Forced ordering
- Forced to invest in unproven concept
- Forced to sell
- Forced to spend on renovations
- Forgiveness
- Forensic accounting
- Forgery
- Formal parliamentary public hearings
- Fox to guard the henhouse (self-regulation)
- Framing: people tend to reach conclusions based on the 'framework' of a situation
- FranchiseFool
- Franchise agreements are so complex, they are breached the moment they're signed
- Franchise agreements create a License to Lie, Cheat & Steal
- Franchise agreements virtually non-negotiable
- Franchise agreements: Masterpieces of deceptive wording and artful omission
- Franchise banker
- Franchise bar dream client
- Franchise bar provides plausible reasons
- Franchise bubble will crash much harder (non-franchised)
- Franchise business model perfectly suited to enable massive fraud
- Franchise consultant
- Franchise Commissioner
- Franchise consultant goes AWOL
- Franchise Council of Australia, FCA
- Franchise investors deprived of information
- Franchise law being ignored
- Franchise laws protect franchisors, not franchisees
- Franchise relationship sticks franchisee with legal liability
- Franchise Sector Working Team
- Franchise show
- Franchised store converted to corporate store
- Franchisee abandons their investment
- Franchisee advisory group (lap-dog)
- Franchisee gets cents, franchisor many $
- Franchisee is pawn in massive fraud
- Franchisee leader
- Franchisee repudiates loan
- Franchisee revolt
- Franchisee, independent contractor or employee?
- Franchisee-on-franchisee opportunism
- Franchisees accused of lying
- Franchisees are frequently the canary in the fraud mine
- Franchisees are practice clients that help keep the lights on until franchisor clients show up
- Franchisees are pawns in insolvency flip
- Franchisees buy franchise system
- Franchisees covered under consumer protection laws
- Franchisees dragged into complex legal dispute their franchisor created
- Franchisees' equity destroyed in unrelated part of trademark system
- Franchisees have no say on new brand
- Franchisees invited to switch to competitor's brand
- Franchisees more willing to speak up
- Franchisees move to buy system
- Franchisees not the only ones at risk
- Franchisees' law firm advertises it serves only franchisors
- Franchisees' spouses speak very powerfully
- Franchisees viewed as children
- Franchisees viewed as employees
- Franchisees who appear to have lost their mind
- Franchisees who are related to franchisor have advantage
- Franchises aren’t selling
- Franchises sold hard directly to those who have just lost their job
- Franchising a crown corporation
- Franchising is much more profitable to head offices than corporate stores
- Franchising is the most lucrative form of commercial lending
- Franchising Opportunism paper
- Franchising practiced the same, worldwide
- Franchisor abandonment
- Franchisor association not trusted by franchisees
- Franchisor association not trusted by politicians
- Franchisor association not trusted by professional journalists
- Franchisor association public relations machine
- Franchisor association still maintains fiction of representing franchisees
- Franchisor bankruptcy
- Franchisor cash flow cut by franchisees acting as one
- Franchisor cashs out
- Franchisor changes personal names
- Franchisor chooses to do nothing when told of investor losses
- Franchisor controls both wholesale costs and retail prices
- Franchisor controls retail prices
- Franchisor corporation created to fail
- Franchisor corporations designed to keep franchisee fees but shirk liabilities
- Franchisor cuts off supplies
- Franchisor defaulting on their debt
- Franchisor fails and consumers lose millions
- Franchisor financing: faster in, out & resold (serial bankrupts)
- Franchisor guarantees franchisee debt
- Franchisor has right to buy outlet before anyone else
- Franchisor held personally liable
- Franchisor in hiding
- Franchisor insolvency
- Franchisor insolvency, intentional
- Franchisor is wholesaler and retailer
- Franchisor keeps best sites for corporate stores
- Franchisor keeps best sites for corporate stores
- Franchisor knew they were selling money losing concepts
- Franchisor must approve new buyer
- Franchisor negligent in not protecting tradename
- Franchisor offers to help its franchisees go independent
- Franchisor overcharges for required products
- Franchisor owns more than one system (subsidizes dog from cash cow)
- Franchisor picks up stores for a song
- Franchisor refuses to negotiate
- Franchisor refuses to return franchisees' calls
- Franchisor responsible for a safe workplace
- Franchisor sells out
- Franchisor sells to competitor
- Franchisor sues candidate franchisee for not taking store
- Franchisor takes back high-volume store
- Franchisor takes franchisee store, gives to relative
- Franchisor takes franchisee store, resells to new dealer
- Franchisor takes franchisee stores
- Franchisor takes store and converts to corporate
- Franchisor trade association confirms franchisor opportunism is appropriate
- Franchisor tries to break franchisee association "union"
- Franchisor tries to take store without legal authority to do so
- Franchisor was once a franchisee
- Franchisor will appeal decision to gain time
- Franchisor withholds rent
- Franchisor's associate
- Franchisors push for weak national franchise law
- Franchisors want the minimum regulation they can get away with
- FranWhack: a system that is not investment-worthy
- Fraud
- Fraud financed by rigged appraisals used equipment & leaseholds
- Fraud is widespread
- Fraud mushrooms when regulation is dropped
- Fraud on the public purse
- Fraud victims changed deeply and often not for the better
- Fraud victims many times do not step forward
- Fraud, renovation
- Fraudster accountant
- Fraudster banker
- Fraudster broker
- Fraudster finance expert
- Fraudster franchisor
- Fraudster lawyer
- Fraudster real estate
- Fraudulent conversion
- Fraudulent conveyance
- Fraudulent inducement
- Fraudulent misrepresentation
- Fraudulent non-disclosure
- Fraudulently selling fraud insurance
- Free academic materials
- Free riding
- Freedom of information legislation
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech
- Free-fall in fast-food industry worth
- Frenzied lobbying
- Fugitive from justice
- Fundamental human rights inconsistent with industry practice
- Funding for advocacy groups if you toe the line
- Futility of taking legal action
- Gag order (confidentiality agreement)
- Gag order muzzles self & descendants
- Gag order used to conceal criminal wrongdoing
- Gag order, court-mandated
- Gambling
- Gangland-style execution
- Gender discrimination
- Gender identity
- General counsel
- General disclosure worse than no disclosure
- Get promises in writing
- Good faith + fair dealings = false hope
- Good faith, fair dealing
- Good faith, fair dealing implied in United States law
- Good money after bad
- Gosh, we've never heard of that problem
- Gouging on supplies
- Government as system’s ultimate liar
- Government corruption
- Government guaranteed loan approved extremely quickly
- Government guaranteed loan disbursed before disclosure document seen
- Government guaranteed loan disbursed before franchise agreement seen
- Government guaranteed loan filled out by sales agent
- Government guaranteed loan made without proper security
- Government guaranteed loan misapplied
- Government guaranteed loan program very attractive to fraud
- Government guaranteed loans
- Government guaranteed loans used a great deal in franchising
- Government guaranteed loans, abolish program
- Government guaranteed loans, massive loan defaults
- Government guaranteed loans: program loses $1, franchisee families lose $10
- Government inquiries into franchise abuse allegations
- Government investigation
- Grand larceny
- Grange Report
- Greed
- Greenwashing: insincerely claiming to be environmentally friendly
- Gripe sites
- Gross margin controlled by franchisor
- Guilt: pain caused by doing what you know to be wrong
- Gullibility
- Hacktivism: internet social justice activists
- Half-truths
- Happy serfs
- Harassment
- Harold Brown
- Hates publicity
- Have needed more statistics for +30 years
- Head lease advantage
- Health consequences
- Health insurance gone
- Hefty severance packages
- Hepatitis
- Heuristics: rule of thumb decision making that can sometimes result in catastrophe
- Hidden agenda
- Higher profit than sales growth
- Higher short-term ROI to franchisor when churned (versus royalties)
- Hindsight Bias: tendency to view the past as more predictable than it was
- History is often re-written by the winners, aided by the unaware
- Honesty
- Hope springs eternal in the hearts of the delusional
- Horatio Alger story
- Horror stories are merely anecdotal
- Hostage taking
- House Debates, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
- House negro
- How much cash you put in at 1st is irrelevant
- Hubris
- I did drugs because I was sad
- I loved the product so much, so as a fool I bought a franchise
- I own the assets but the franchisor controls them
- Ideas once outrageous are now considered normal
- Identity
- Identity as a competent, logical and non-greedy person shattered
- Identity theft
- If it doesn't jingle, it doesn't count
- Ignore advocates and they’ll go away
- Ignores court orders
- Illusion of government oversight
- Imbalance of information and power
- Immigrants as prey
- Immunity from being sued
- Impertinence
- In business for yourself, not by yourself
- In protective custody
- Inattentional blindness: we fail to see what is right before us
- Income guarantees
- Income tax evasion
- Incompetent or predatory: for the small business investor, the outcome is the same
- Indemnification provisions
- Indentured servants
- Independence
- Independence, forced
- Independence, profits go up
- Independence: time to break the chain
- Independent businesses much higher profit than franchised ones
- Independent businesses survive longer than franchised ones
- Independent franchisee association
- Independent franchisee association betrayal
- Independent franchisee association funded by franchisor
- Independent franchisee association's directors terminated after franchisee's suicide
- Individuals with a very successful career history
- Industry “Better Business Bureau”
- Industry Canada
- Industry in disrepute
- Industry likes this regulator
- Industry research lacks independent verification
- Industry third party attacks
- Ineffective marketing
- Inexcusable actions
- Infamous trademark system
- Influence-peddling
- Inherited money targeted
- Initial public offering, IPO
- Injunction sought to halt termination
- Inside job
- Insider betrayal
- Insight into self
- Insolvency
- Insolvency laws need to protect franchisees as well
- Insolvency strips employees' severance payments
- Insolvency trustee, consultant and auditor same firm
- Insolvent system renamed and sold to a relative
- Integral part of the deception
- Integration clauses
- Intentional franchisor insolvency creates huge fees for legal, accounting, consulting firms
- Intentional interference with economic relations
- International Franchise Association, IFA
- Internet anonymous posters protected
- Internet enables consumers to complain more and sooner
- Internet franchise-sales hype
- Internet information sharing
- Internet offshore gambling vulnerable to crime
- Internet, franchisor competes against franchisees
- Intimidation through lawyers
- Investment made during stressful life event
- Investments in franchising will stop & be lost if law passed
- Investor confidence crushed, no trust or buying
- Investors steered to specific attorney
- Iowa Franchise Investment Act
- It's not about the money
- Jackpot justice
- Jealously guarded monopoly on the provision of legal services
- Judge-made law: case law, applied common law principles
- Jumps bail
- Jury trial very rare in Canada
- Just a few bad apples
- Just World delusion: people get what they deserve in life
- Justice
- Justice delayed is justice denied
- Justice works best in the light of day
- Kidnapping
- Kill the messenger
- Kleenex system: tradename born to die quickly
- Knew, or could have reasonably been expected to know
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge: more pre-sale knowledge does not prevent opportunism during
- Konstaninos “Gus” Boulis
- Krispy Kreme stock model in the making?
- Labor cost minimization consequence
- Labor unrest
- Landlord accepts much less now or franchisor pushes franchisee and he gets 0%
- Landlord betrayal
- Landlord extorted through insolvency
- Landlord extorted through insolvency
- Language shortcomings create a vulnerability
- Lapdog journalism
- Largest and oldest multi-store franchisees fail
- Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law
- Laws belong to citizens not to self-interested gatekeepers and their captured clients
- Lawsuit is frivolous, without merit and will defend vigorously
- Lawsuit that would crush whole sector
- Lawsuits just a cost of doing business
- Lawsuits, class action
- Lawsuits, group
- Lawsuits, individual
- Lawyer alert: advise only prospects with adequate legal due diligence budgets or risk being sued
- Lawyer drops client
- Lawyer for franchisor found liable for court costs
- Lawyer tampers with documents
- Lawyering up without 2nd opinion is a trap
- Lawyers becoming religious
- Lawyers being threatened with lawsuits for speaking out
- Lawyers can serve franchisors or franchisees, never both
- Lawyers issue threatening letters
- Lawyers must be stripped of self-regulation
- Lawyers sued by franchisor
- Lawyers threaten to get Code of Ethics complaint letter withdrawn
- Lawyers threatening franchisee advocates
- Leaderless Franchise Network, LFN
- Leader's defeat used to bully revolting franchisees
- Leadership development
- Learning is an assault on non-thinking stupors
- Lease controlled by franchisor
- Lease margins are an important source of franchisor revenue
- Lease obligations make franchisees pay even if not in business
- Leasehold improvements worth next to nothing
- Legal fees big part of total loss
- Legal fees unpaid
- Legalized extortion
- Legitimate Businessman's Social Club
- Lender's due diligence not done properly
- Lending duty
- Lending duty never enforced via regulation or litigation
- Lending is subject to expert fraud because it is a credence good service
- Lending risk much lower
- Les Stewart
- Lesser of two evils
- Libel chill
- Lies, damn lies and statistics
- Life savings gone
- Like a medieval marriage
- Lipstick on a pig
- Listeriosis
- Listing fees and inside money
- Live by the lawsuit, die by the lawsuit
- Living off the avails of prostitution
- Loan forgiven for franchisor executive
- Loan pushing
- Loan repudiation
- Loan servicers and brokers attracts fraud
- Loan sharking
- Loan-broker fraud
- Loans to be paid but no asset received
- Lobbying power
- Local suppliers with no shelf space
- Localwashing: insincerely claiming to source products locally
- Location chosen by franchisor
- Lorn Austin, Lorne Austin, Lawrence Austin
- Loser pays court costs
- Losing money hand over fist
- Loss Aversion: people dislike losing much more than winning (the same $)
- Lost homes
- Love money
- Low investor confidence
- Lower quality franchisees
- Loyalty program
- Ludicrous demands
- Mad as hell not going to take it anymore
- Mail fraud
- Malfeasance
- Mandatory membership in associations
- Manipulate stock prices
- Marketing advisory council, national, franchisee
- Mask of respectability
- Massive defaults
- Material facts were not disclosed
- Material risks cannot be accurately determined before you sign
- Materially misleading information
- McBooze
- McCruelty
- McDonald’s not so lily white
- McDonald’s of…
- McDonald's less willing to be the poster boy for industry success/failure
- McFat
- McJob
- McLaw: toothless legislation designed to protect the dominant parties
- McLibel
- McStumble
- Media informs trade association their member is a convicted fraud artist
- Media is not interested in some stories
- Media is sued
- Media outlet "puts on" the franchise industry
- Mediation
- Mediation: information gathering that aids the destruction of valid legal claims
- Mental health destroyed
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Mergers and acquisitions: nearly half fail financially
- Military pension will delay financial collapse
- Military pension will subsidize the intentionally-designed deadbeat outlet
- Minimum wage increase opponents
- Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, Ontario
- Misleading advertising
- Misrepresentations
- Model of de-regulated free-marketeers
- Modern franchising is fundamentally undemocratic
- Mom-and-Pop franchisees at greatest risk
- Money influencing public decision-making
- Money laundering
- Money pit franchise
- Money swears
- Monopoly or near-monopolies creates sub-optimal capital allocations
- Moral Hazard: a party insulated from risk behaves differently than if the full risk were present
- More one-sided information leads to greater deceit
- Mortgage fraud
- Most lucrative form of commercial lending, franchising
- Mould
- Multi unit carrot
- Multiple corporations protect majority shareholders' interests
- Multiple voting shares
- Multi-tradename franchisors are often the most ruthless
- Murder
- Must arbitrate disputes, cannot litigate
- Must buy entirely useless goods and services
- Must buy only through franchisor (tied buying)
- Must lease, not buy, land and/or building
- Must pay future royalties, even when the franchise fails (liquidated damages)
- Must sell business (eventually) through franchisor
- Must use franchisor's credit card processing company
- Must work only as a franchisee
- Mutual funds
- My franchise was a prison
- Myth
- Name and shame campaign
- Narcissism
- National association claims it represents franchisees but retreats when questioned
- National cultural icon?
- National press coverage
- National regulator
- Natural regulation: Taking enforcement into your own hands
- Neanderthal thinking
- Necessary illusions
- Negligence
- Negligent misrepresentation
- Network effects: unintended consequences when dealing with communities
- Neuroeconomics: the study how people make decisions (psychology, economic & neuroscience)
- New agreement is much worse
- New buyer must sign current, often less favorable, contract
- New franchise law means franchisors will boycott market (unsubstantiated fear mongering)
- New franchisor brings new false hope
- New franchisor may be nastier than the old one
- New franchisor means worse deal
- Next to impossible to sell any franchise
- No duty of care to public
- No franchisor support
- No justice in legal system
- No love lost, apparently
- No numbers to back up dire predictions
- No program evaluation being done by government
- No protection from monopoly
- No real penalties for abuse of federal insolvency laws
- Non-bank lender
- Non-compete restrictions
- Non-compete restrictions defeated
- Non-compete restrictions not enforced in California
- Nothing but cold calculation
- Nothing personal, it's just business
- Nutrition labeling
- Obesity
- Obstruction of justice
- Odious debts
- Offered much less than market value of franchise
- Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada
- Officials fail to freeze assets
- Old-fashioned idea that politicians are relevant
- Oligopoly: operates essentially the same as a monopoly
- Ombudsman
- Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, Canada
- Ombudsman, franchisee must sign gag order 1st
- Ombudsman, funded by franchisors & suppliers
- Ombudsman, no franchisee accountability
- Ombudsman, risk of information going to franchisor
- On Cooling the Mark Out (Erving Goffman)
- One franchisee turned against the other (action very difficult)
- One of us
- Online reputation grows exponentially
- Only 3 ways out: resell to next loser, independence & be sued or abandon and go bankrupt
- Only interested in good news stories
- Only offered a fraction of what business is worth
- Only one side presented
- Only opening new stores for the quick cash grab
- Only saw bank official once before loan granted
- Ontario Provincial Police
- Ontario Public Hearings, Canada, 2000
- Ontario Securities Commission
- Ontario: population and economic provincial powerhouse of Canada
- Operating losses from Day 1
- Opinions at odds with the Minister
- Opportunism: contract creates powers which are used to strip investor value during relationship
- Opportunism: self-interest with deceit
- Opportunity Knocks, John Lorinc
- Opposed bankruptcy discharge
- Opposition to fake franchisor insolvency and ownership flip
- Order of Canada recipient
- Organized crime
- Organized crime infiltrates legitimate businesses
- Outrageous fees
- Outright scam
- Outstanding investigative journalism
- Overconfidence effect
- Overstatement of sales and profits
- Overt influence of trade association
- Own worst enemy
- Paid informers
- Parliamentary privilege
- Past the Tipping Point of public contempt for franchising
- Pawns in a game they can't win
- Perception is that it’s a franchisor program
- Perjury
- Personal assets pledged to cover business
- Personal guarantee forged by franchisor
- Personal guarantees cause good money to go after bad
- Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Canada
- Personality disorders
- Persuasion
- Petition sent to parliament
- Philanthropy
- Physical health deterioration
- Piling on: franchisor can afford a few awards but not hundreds
- Point of Sale card skimming fraud
- Police can’t/won't investigate losses less than $250,000
- Police dump cases because of budget constraints
- Police intervention
- Polishing a turd of an argument
- Political champions
- Political contributions by franchisors (v. franchisees)
- Politicians helping their friends
- Politician's news release
- Politicians openly shilling for corporations
- Politicians refuses to answer request for information
- Politics is vulnerable to expert fraud because it is a credence good
- Ponzi (pyramid) scheme
- Pooled money
- Portrait of a franchisor
- Possession for the purpose of trafficking
- Potemkin village
- Poverty
- Power to publish offenders name
- Predatory actions
- Predatory franchise lending
- Predatory franchising makes more money selling than operating system
- Predatory lending
- Predictably Irrational: people act less rationally than you can ever imagine
- Pressured to break 3rd party contract
- Preying on the economically poor
- Price discrimination
- Price fixing
- Price maintenance
- Price wars
- Prime bank fraud
- Prince Edward Island Public Hearings, Canada, 2001
- Prison time needed to reduce white-collar crime
- Prison time potential
- Privacy breaches a prerequisite for fraud
- Privacy Commissioner of Canada
- Privacy laws violated
- Private detective used
- Private equity
- Private eyes used to spy on franchisees
- Private Members’ Bill
- Private right of action
- Privatization of utilities by franchising
- Pro forma income statements questions
- Proceeds of crime
- Product liability
- Professional hit
- Professional misconduct
- Professional negligence
- Professional self-regulation
- Professor Gillian K. Hadfield
- Professor John Kenneth Galbraith
- Professor Lorelle Frazer
- Professor Marshall McLuhan
- Professor Philip Zimbardo
- Professor Timothy M. Bates
- Profits from one franchise system sucked out to subsidize another one
- Profits from one store subsidize another
- Profits grow much faster than revenue
- Promissory notes
- Propaganda, thought-terminating cliches, The Big Lie
- Prospect Theory: loses hurt much, much more than comparable gains
- Protect gross negligence, wanton recklessness and intentional misconduct
- Protection money
- Protest, rally and demonstration
- Proven business model?
- Psychological denial
- Psychological testing
- Psychopathology
- Psycho-social hazard
- Public corruption
- Public mischief
- Public perception of sleaze and greed
- Public trust in food safety diminished
- Pump-and-dump scheme
- Punished for talking to peers
- Punished for talking to police
- Punished for talking to press
- Punitive, exemplary and/or aggravated damages
- Put personal assets in someone else's name
- Qualify as franchisee if you fog a mirror & the check clears
- Quality industry leadership breeds similar managers and workers
- Queen's Counsel
- Quiet settlement
- Race
- Racketeering
- Raining litigation
- Ransom
- Ray Borradale
- Rebate sharing
- Rebranding financed by adding more government guaranteed loan
- Rebranding is a great way to raise franchisor revenue
- Rebranding usually hides real objective
- Refranchising: corporate stores converted to franchised
- Refusal to acknowledge independent franchisee association
- Refusal to renew contract
- Refused to answer politician’s question
- Refuses to accept complaint
- Refuses to answer journalist's questions
- Refuses to back loan applications
- Refuses to investigate complaints
- Refuses to take client
- Register franchisees and franchisors
- Regulator already has enough power but they don't use it
- Regulators only pick on those who can't defend themselves
- Regulators pushed to act by internet activism
- Regulatory capture
- Related scammers
- Relationship legislation
- Relative of franchisor buys assets from Trustee
- Relative of franchisor owns construction company
- Religion as sheep’s clothing
- Renewal of contract contingent on franchisee waiving all legal rights
- Renewal of contract denied
- Renewing contract much tougher
- Rent increase
- Rent payments withheld
- Renting a business causes problems down the road
- Reparations
- Reporter, not bank, notifies authorities
- Reputation management
- Reputation registry
- Reputation self-immolation
- Reputational risk
- Resale or transfer store through franchisor to new franchisee
- Resale permission unreasonably withheld
- Resale value set by franchisor
- Resales (after termination) seen as a profit center
- Rescission
- Reserves a veto over any legislation
- Re-sold at a heavy loss
- Responsible for a loan they did not sign for
- Restoring investor confidence
- Restraining order
- Restrict gag orders
- Restructuring is used to cull dealers
- Restructuring legislation is deficient
- Retaliation
- Retire Ronald McDonald
- Return on investment
- Reverse onus on good faith and fair dealing
- Ridicule
- Right of first refusal
- Right to associate
- Right to associate and right to harass
- Right to associate means the right to collective bargaining
- Right to associate means the right to sue as a class action
- Right to choose suppliers, buy from competitor
- Risk compensation
- Risk Homeostatis Theory, Gerald J. S. Wilde
- Risk much higher for franchisee than independent business
- Robber baron
- Rogue operators adapt much quicker than oversight agencies
- Romanian credit card skimming gangs
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP
- Royalty fees: don't pay franchisor, pay me (your attorney)
- Royalty payment reductions can be negotiated
- Royalty payments withheld
- Rules of Professional Conduct
- Rules for Radicals: make them play by their own rules
- Run by franchisees, for franchisees
- Run the billable hour clock
- Russian mafia
- S. G. M. Grange, Q.C.
- Sabotage
- Sales agent shenanigans
- Sales, understating
- Salmonella
- Same-store sales drop
- Satire: foolishness held up for examination
- Saturates markets through multiple distribution channels
- SBA 7a loans used to fuel franchise bubble
- Scapegoating
- Scum
- Secret kickbacks and rebates
- Secret offshore accounts
- Secured creditors (banks) 100% covered in dodgy insolvency
- Securities fraud
- Securitization
- Seduction
- Self-confidence destroyed
- Self-delusion
- Self-help: take your own store back, de-brand and run to fund a fight
- Self-regulating professionals does not protect consumers
- Self-represented litigants
- Sell or we will sue you
- Selling around a disclosure document
- Selling franchisee won’t sell a new franchisee a financial time bomb
- Selling franchises same as stocks, mutual funds, lending, and securities
- Selling price inflated by easy credit bubble
- Seminar selling
- Sets up competing distribution channel
- Settlement just a tiny fraction of original claim
- Settlement just covers fees
- Severance package financing dream
- Sexual assault
- Sexual orientation
- Sham corporate structures designed to evade responsibility
- Sham of self-regulation
- Shame - Humiliation emotion
- Sham of self-regulation
- Shannon Liss-Riordan
- Sharecropping
- Shareholder activism forces franchisor action
- Shell companies
- Shigella
- Shill: banker
- Shills
- Shocked, I tell you: just shocked
- Short- or forced-shipping
- Short-term profits to franchisor much higher with cannon fodder investors
- Should anyone trust anything associated with franchising anymore?
- Shunned
- Sign away human rights and legal remedies
- Signed only last page of form but several copies
- Signs that potential franchisees are nervous and aren’t buying
- Sincere ignorance
- Sincerity
- Siren song
- Situationism psychology: people are influenced by external factors more than internal traits
- Slander
- Slap on the wrist for white-collar crime
- Slime
- Slow food movement
- Slush funds
- Small Claims Court no solution
- Smartest guy in the room
- Smuggling
- Social justice
- Social media marketing
- Social media triggers unskilled franchisor reaction
- Social proof: in new situations, you assume others know more so you follow their lead
- Social responsibility is a sales gimmick
- Sold but not opened, SNO
- Sold during time of psychological vulnerability, especially unemployment
- Sold for as much as much as they can get (next-to worthless)
- Sold only to people with no small business experience (very naïve)
- Sold to dodge legal actions
- Sold used equipment when franchisee thought it would be new
- Sold useless or inappropriate equipment
- Solicitation to commit first-degree murder
- Solicitor-client privilege used to shield white-collar crime (self and others)
- Some of the nastiest predators run several tradename systems
- Sophism: an argument used to deceive
- South Sea Bubble
- Spartacus effect: folk heroes are made when bullies strongly retaliate
- Specific contract terms trumps all general good faith/fair dealings obligations
- Spin over substance?
- Sports and criminal organizations
- Spouse can sue for losses also
- Spouse dragged into negative investment
- Spouse must never sign any document
- Spouse needs independent legal advice
- Stalking horse bid
- Starts 2nd system from insolvent 1st
- State refuses to even listen
- State sanction
- Stay out of group lawsuit and I’ll pay you
- Stock manipulation alleged
- Stock price plummets
- Stop territorial protection at contract renewal
- Stopped paying royalties
- Store never opened, SNO
- Stores shuttered
- Strategic lawsuit against public participation, SLAPP
- Strong back and weak mind
- Structured finance deals
- Sub-prime lending
- Sub-prime lending practices done in franchising
- Success or failure have largely to do with luck
- Success or failure is within the direct control of the individual franchisee
- Success rate, 95 per cent
- Success rate, Timothy Bates’ study
- Success rate, we don’t know
- Success rates fudged
- Success will happen if I work harder
- Successful for the middleman
- Sue first and ask questions later
- Sue lender for failing to do their lender's due diligence
- Sue the accountant
- Sue the appraiser
- Sue the bank
- Sue the franchisee association and executives
- Sue the lawyer
- Sue the lawyer that created the disclosure document
- Sue the regulator
- Sue the sales agent
- Suicide
- Suicide committed in franchised store
- Sunshine is the best disinfectant
- Sunk cost
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: very hard to resist putting good money after bad
- Sunk costs: franchisee's trapped capital keeps them chained to treadmill
- Supplier kickbacks
- Suppliers and landlords act as if they were the franchisor
- Supply chain management innovation
- Supply margins are a hidden added royalty payment
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Survivability (franchisee and franchisor)
- Susan Kezios
- Suspiciously high earnings growth
- Symbiotic relationships (industry, banks, lawyers)
- Sympathy for the franchisor
- System designed to fail for franchisees
- System is collapsing
- System ownership changes very frequently
- Tacit approval
- Take what I give you or abandon 100% of your investment
- Take what you're given for a law or you get nothing
- Talk to former franchisees
- Targeting children
- Tax fraud
- Tax havens make tracing proceeds of crime impossible
- Tax subsidy
- Taxpayers end up paying for private gain
- TD Canada Trust
- Telemarketing fraud
- Telephone number controlled by franchisor
- Terminate or buy off franchisee leaders
- Terminated by form letter
- Termination of franchisee, mass
- Termination of franchisee, single
- Termination threats
- Terrorism
- Terrorizing franchisees
- Test for franchisee, independent contractor or employee
- The burned hand teaches best
- The Fixer fixes for a hefty price
- The game is rigged
- The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them
- The Long Con: prick your own IPO bubble, walk and keep your mouth shut
- The Toronto Star
- Theft
- There's a sucker born every minute
- Therese Evans
- Thin-skinned politicians not doing their duty
- Threatening letters
- Threatening staff
- Threatens to drop client
- Threats against franchisee advocates
- Threats against supporters of franchisee association
- Threats of lawsuits
- Threats of physical violence
- Threats toward politicians by franchisors
- Tied contracting
- Tier 2 lawyers
- Time delays makes collection of future court awards impossible
- Tip of the iceberg
- Tobacco industry-type defence
- Token gesture
- Tony Martin
- Toothless law
- Toronto: international telemarketing fraud capital
- Torture
- Tougher to sell franchises
- Towers of gold, feet of clay
- Trade association fronts and defends best and worst franchisors
- Trade association membership a bogus "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval"
- Trade association propaganda
- Trade association tells elected officials how to do their job
- Trade payable debt used to dominate
- Trade show are where the greatest lies are told
- Trade shows a major source of revenue for franchisor associations
- Trademark
- Trademark infringement cited as reason for litigation
- Trademark re-acquired by franchisor after insolvency
- Trademark secured by surviving franchisees
- Trading in false hope
- Trafficking a controlled substance
- Tragedy of the commons
- Trans fatty acids
- Trap for the trusting
- Tremendous desire to warn others
- Trespass orders
- Trial decision always appealed
- Trust
- Trust account irregularities
- Trustee/consultant does mass terminations during protection to flip to new owner
- Truth
- U.S. expansion is graveyard for many Canadian businesses
- U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI
- U.S. Federal Trade Commission, FTC
- U.S. Oversight Hearings on the Franchise Relationship, 1999
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC
- U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA
- U.S. subprime mortgage scandal
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Unauthorized funds transfer by bank
- Unauthorized funds transfer by bank
- Unbridled corporate power
- Uncharacteristically shy with media requests
- Uncle Tom-ish comments
- Unconscionable conduct
- Undercapitalized
- Undue influence
- Unfunded taxpayer liability
- Uniform Franchise Offering Circular, UFOC (FDD)
- Uniform international franchise law
- Uniform national franchise law means a uniformly weak one
- Unilateral changes in business model drive franchisees' profits down
- Unilateral fines
- Unintentional or hidden franchises
- Unionization
- Unionization is a constitutional right
- Unions hold management accountable
- Universities provide unbiased expert knowledge and pursue objective truth
- Unjust enrichment
- Unpaid government obligations
- Unproven business model
- Unreasonably withholds consent
- Unrelated franchisor investment sinks franchise system
- Unsafe at any Brand?
- Unsecured creditors get next to nothing
- Unskilled and unaware bias (Dunning–Kruger effect)
- Unsophisticated buyers
- Uttering threats
- Vacuum of information favours dominant party
- Variable rate royalty fees
- Veil of secrecy
- Vendor incentives
- Very low lending loss risk
- Veterans Transition Franchise Initiative, VetFran
- VetFran has lots of predatory systems
- VetFran: fish in a barrel
- Vicarious liability
- Victims are highly intelligent and educated
- Vigilantism
- Violated
- Violence
- Waiver of legal rights
- Wanted: sheep
- War of attrition
- Was new franchisor money really old $ siphoned off before false insolvency was declared?
- Watchdog fails to bark
- We have no franchisee failures
- We will bankrupt you
- Weak law worse than no law
- Weak security costs public millions $
- Wealth is meant to be re-distributed (not created)
- Weapons of Influence: Authority
- Weapons of Influence: Commitment and Consistency
- Weapons of Influence: Liking
- Weapons of Influence: Reciprocity
- Weapons of Influence: Scarcity
- Weapons of Influence: Social Proof
- Were in default for some time: why terminate now?
- What does the independent franchisee association say?
- When fraud is alleged, politician turns to group that represents perpetrators
- When the franchisor tanks, so does the franchisee
- Where is the franchisor hiding? contest
- Whistleblowers
- Whistleblowers protected
- White man's burden
- White-collar crime has stiff penalties
- White-collar crime is widespread
- White-knight lawyer turns black
- Who pays for the research?
- Who selected these allegedly moron franchisees in the first place?
- Why franchisors sublease to franchisees
- Why should we care? It's not our money.
- Why terminate now since I owed money for some time?
- WikiLeaks
- Wiki: a franchisee-created wiki made from your franchisor's documents
- Wild West of the business world
- Will work even when Variable costs > than Selling price
- Wire fraud
- Wiretap authorization virtually impossible if a lawyer is the target
- Wiretaps
- Withholding fees is extremely hazardous
- Withholds evidence in court proceedings
- Within the four corners of the contract
- Without conscience
- Witness tampering
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Won't get fooled again
- Work as employee inside system before investing
- Workplace bullying
- Workplace safety
- Workplace violence
- World Franchise Council
- Would you advise anyone to buy into your system?
- Would you do it over again?
- Write a letter of complaint
- You can’t con an honest man
- You get what you pay for as a franchisee
- You may not be the 1st but you could be the next
- You'll sign anything to get 15% of what you put into it back
- Zone pricing: franchisees pay more for same quality, same geography