Cuppy’s Coffee Goes to Court: Elite Manufacturing Sued
July 12, 2008 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
Supreme Building Technologies filed suit against Elite Manufacturing, LLC alleging breach of contract and $1.7M in unpaid fees.
Dale Nabors and FranSynergy, the new owners of Cuppy’s coffee and affiliate Elite Manufacturing, have been served a big steaming cup of litigation.
July 3, 2008, Supreme Building Technologies, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Elite Manufacturing, LLC. for breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition. In short, SBT alleges that Elite has stiffed them for $1.7M in fees for inline construction of Cuppy’s Coffee stores, and fabrication of Cuppy’s coffee kiosks, carts and mobile units.
Additionally, SBT alleges that Elite Manufacturing has reneged on its contract by working with their subcontractors directly, cutting SBT out of the process – and revenue.
THE FULL STORY & PDF OF THE COURT DOCUMENTS ARE POSTED AT UNHAPPY FRANCHISEE.
What do you think? Legitimate lawsuit or more legal shenanigans?
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I remember back when Dale first came on as a consultant & mentioned he use to work for the Dwyer Group in Texas several years back. Some of the higher up managers at Medina were concerned about this new consultant coming on board & investigated/called Dwyer Group. Their comment was that they did remember Dale but that he NEVER AMOUNTED TO MUCH & WAS LET GO. That should have been a RED FLAG for Morg at the time. But I guess not. Dale has proven to be an absolute weasel & coward! He tells people such bull (this includes zees, s-employees, current employees, media) that I believe he truly believes his on crap! WHAT A JOKE THIS SO-CALLED MAN HAS PROVEN TO BE. I truly feel sorry for his family. WHEN A PERSON CAN NOT STAND UP AND ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE BITEN OFF MORE THAN THEY CAN CHEW & JUST LAY IT OUT FOR EVERYONE SO THEY CAN MAKE OTHER ARRANGEMENTS… PLUS THIS SAME PERSON CONTINUE TO TELL PEOPLE LIES SO THEY WILL SEND IN MORE MONEY… ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS PERSON IS THE BIGGEST COWARD I HAVE EVER KNOWN!!!! Even if Dale did this now, he has waited tooooooooooo long and most zees are bankrupt because of his delays and deceit. Again… What a coward!!!
Guest:
Please stick to facts without the personal attacks and name calling. It doesn’t further your argument, or provide any insight into the Cuppy’s Coffee situation.
Further, your specific attacks are pretty weak.
First, he was employed (according to his published bio) by the Dwyer Group for 5 years. If he “never amounted to much” I doubt they would have kept him on for that long. Additionally, if the “higher up” consultants a Cuppy’s / Medina got a bad report, why did they hire him? Why were “higher ups” like Theresa St. Clair so enthusiastic (at first) when he was taking over the company if they knew of a lackluster past?
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I am no ardent defender of Dale Nabors. However, I would not call anyone who would take over this train wreck of a company a coward. To the contrary, it was a huge and very public risk and I think he’s paying for it dearly.
As you are a great believer in courageousness, might I suggest that you post under your real name so that he can’t make the same claim about you?
2 of the largest and most successful Geeks on Call owners filed for Chapter 11 protection and a lawsuit in federal court on May 15. see the following link to one of them:
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-vaedce/case_no-1:2009cv00555/case_id-242486/
According to the docket they named 3 corporate individuals; Richard Cole; CEO; Rich Artese; COO and Keith Wesp; CFO, personally along with the corporation they own stock and work for Geeks on Call America and Geeks on Call Holdings.
For more information or to join suit with other current or former franchise owners the lawyer handling the cases is below.
Patrick R. Blasz
Law Offices of Patrick R. Blasz, LLC
11490 Commerce Park Drive
Suite 240
Reston, Virginia 20191
(703) 964-3180 office
(703) 964-3183 fax
pblasz@blaszlaw.com
If anyone has any of these actual complaints, please email to unhappyfranchisee[at]gmail.com and I will post them.
Thanks.