Thanks for their participation on Franchise Pick and to their gracious recognition of their attorneys who worked so hard for them and won for them.

This was a good judge who could use the law to provide some kind of justice to Ellen and Rich.

It appears that arbitrary and wrongful terminations are being looked at by the courts and that franchisees are now winning a few of these lawsuits. There is now case law that will perhaps restrain Corporate legal in the future insofar as unlawful terminations are concerned.

QSucker would find out, however, if he consulted with an attorney that under the terms of the contract he signed with Quiznos, he can’t just quit and go into business on his own, even if he is losing money every month. Quiznos would immmediately get an injunction to close him down and sue for lost royalties, etc… —–and the courts would uphold the terms of the contract —in my opinion.

There is no new case law favoring franchisees whose businesses are failing because of encroachment, churning, or exploitation by franchisors of franchisees.

Franchise contracts do not allow for an exit when the franchisee can’t break even or when the franchisee just breaks even but there are no profits. How else could franchisors indenture franchisees for many years? Franchisees either have to sell their businesses at fire-sale prices or give them away or stand in place working for the franchisor and hoping they will break even some day before they are driven into bankruptcy. Remember that the franchisor profits all of the time you are trying to break even and even when you fail if your highly discounted business is taken over by a third party.

Federal regulatory policy is alive and well and protected by the courts.

Thanks

Are Quiznos practices bordering on fascism? Has the absolute power that their contract and the FTC Rule gives them destroyed thousands of innocents who generally have no recourse against unlawful terminations and arbitrary punishments.

It’s good to see that a Judge recognized the arrogance and the injustice of the incident and slapped Quiznos. Of course, it is just a moral victory for the defendants who probably never will recover financially from the abuse.

Why shouldn’t punitive damages have been awarded in this situtation by the judge?

What is this about Richard Solomon? Richard Solomon tells the no BS truth about franchising and was one of my teachers on Blue Mau Mau before I was voted OFF of that website.

Also, please keep the comments non-threatening. Thanks.

Dream Team, joke, show the numbers, stores in distress/profitability 80/20. The next Bennigan’s . Any educated business professional would have a field day with the actual store sales data. Anyone with Quiznos that’s responsible for the individual FO’s success would have to be embarrassed by the large amount of failure in the system.