Cuppy’s Coffee founder Robert “Morg” Morgan had been laying low. 
While the unhappy victims of the Cuppy’s Coffee were commiserating online, Morgan had quietly reinvented himself as new age celibate vegan raw food guru Bobby The Rawman Walking.  He had launched two self-promotional blogs called Living Raw & Free and The Sanctuary (his raw food retreat).
By posting 5000+ touchy-feely inspirational messages and links to raw food recipes, Rawman Walking had built up an adoring following on Twitter.  He was just starting to pitch his ardent followers – most of whom were middle-aged women unaware of his controversial past – on …read more

After three years under fire on FranchisePick.com, BlueMauMau.org, UnhappyFranchisee.com and other blogs, the much-maligned Morg is speaking out and telling his side of the story for the first time.
Links to the many posts on Cuppy’s Coffee and interviews with Cuppy’s Coffee victims are posted here:  Cuppy’s Coffee
Morg’s unedited post telling his side of the story is here:  CUPPY’S: Robert Morgan’s “My Thoughts About The American Dream”
Robert “Morg” Morgan, the founder and previous owner of the controversial Cuppy’s Coffee and related controversial entities (Medina Enterprises, Elite Manufacturing, etc.)  recently resurfaced as raw food guru “Bobby” Morgan, the “Rawman Walking.”  Rawman Walking publishes …read more

Rawman Walking aka “Bobby” describes himself as “a 4 year Cancer Survivor, a Raw Vegan Athlete, A Holistic Health Counselor, Raw Foods Nutritional Consultant, Herbalist and Mentor at The Sanctuary, a raw food retreat.” 
Bobby the Rawman Walking is offering a women-only diet and lifestyle counseling for fees ranging from $1500 – $14,000 and claims he can cure Type 2 Diabetes in only 28 days.
Who is this new age guru and celibate raw food messiah?  And who is his trusty vegan superhero sidekick Rawman Living?
UnhappyFranchisee.com has discovered that the supervegan duo of Rawman Walking and Rawman Living is none other than …read more

It seems Florida’s Okaloosa Sheriff’s Department has identified Robert Dale Nabors, CEO of Cuppy’s Coffee, Medina Management & related entities, as a fugitive from justice and awaits his return to face felony charges for passing worthless checks.
Mr. Nabors was arrested March 31, 2009, then freed on bail in Colbert County, Alabama.
Read the story and commentary on these posts on UnhappyFranchisee.Com:
CUPPY’S: CEO Dale Nabors Faces Felony Charges
CUPPY’S: Robert Dale Nabors, Fugitive From Justice
Related stories:
Dale Nabors was a consultant to the infamous Cuppy’s Coffee and parent Medina Management.  You can read the story through blog posts in reverse order.
CUPPY’S COFFEE: Employees Bid …read more

If ever there were a group in need of an economic bailout, it would be the hundreds of victims of the most blatant franchise scam in recent history:  Cuppy’s Coffee.  Just in case any government official or agency cares (why start now?), there are three distinct groups of victims struggling to recover from their own financial Katrinas:
Cuppy’s Coffee “Depositers”:  As many as 100 or more individuals paid upfront construction deposits ranging from $29,500 to more than $100,000 that were to be returned if they failed to find a location or secure financing for the project;  however, when they requested their …read more

(FranchisePick.Com)  Congratulations to Claudia & Alan Robbins on the opening of their brand new Cuppy’s Coffee cafe franchise in Wilmington, DE!
If you’re in, near or passing through Wilmington, DE stop in, show your support and buy a lot of stuff from the Robbins, whose buildout took a Herculean effort and a significant investment of time, money and emotion.
It’s located at:
Cuppy’s Coffee
Millcreek Shopping Center,
4567 Kirkwood Hwy.
Wilmington, DE
Cuppy’s Coffee is in good franchise company with FastSigns and Hollywood Tans in the same shopping center.
The Robbins will be putting together a grand opening with a ribbon cutting some time around the 13th.

Best …read more

(FranchisePick.Com)
Cuppy’s Coffee Franchise, Elite Manufacturing, Medina Complaints
Cuppy’s Coffee’s AAFD Award for “Fair Franchising”
CUPPY’S COFFEE, Java Jo’z, Elite Manufacturing, Medina Blogliography
Seems like only 7 months or so ago that Cuppy’s Coffee parent Medina Enterprises was joyfully announcing the appointment of Don Ochsenreiter Executive VP and CFO. It seems like just 7 months ago that Ochsenreiter was excited about all that Medina had accomplished, all it was going to accomplish, and its contribution to the local business economy.
A lot sure can change in 7 months.
In that amount of time, Medina was purchased by Dale Nabors’ Fransynergy, Ochsenreiter was reportedly let go, …read more

Related:  CUPPY’S COFFEE, Java Jo’z, Elite Manufacturing, Medina Blogliography
Interview with Cuppy’s Coffee Franchise Owner Joshua Miranda
October 3, 2008

Kindergarten teacher Joshua Miranda and his wife, nurse Clara Miranda, dreamed of opening a Cuppy’s Coffee cafe and operating a Cuppy’s Coffee mobile unit in Apple Valley, CA.  They sent refundable deposits totalling $42,000 to Cuppy’s Coffee affiliate Elite Manufacturing and to Advantage Leasing for the mobil unit.  After their financing did not pan out, they were unable to get their refundable deposits returned.  Elite Manufacturing has defaulted on their refund agreement, and Advantage Leasing, who is suing Elite, refuses to return …read more

(Franchise Pick) If you have not been following the Cuppy’s Coffee saga, my apologies for not including a summary*. 
I am just too overcome with a powerful emotional cocktail of glee and disbelief. 
Let’s just call it disbeglief.
This very day I have coined this new word (disbeglief) in honor of the great one:  Robert “Morg” Morgan.
Yes, the man who masterminded the cloud factory that is Cuppy’s Coffee – the visionary leader who recruited 300 franchise investors (or more!) to deploy their bank accounts for the great cause of Drive-Thru Caffeination – is returning to lead his people out of …read more

(FranchisePick.Com)  Today’s Quote:
We are discrete sheep—we want to see how the drove is going, and then we go with the drove.
          -  Mark Twain

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
          – Edmund Burke

Nothing personal toward Joshua, Angela, David, Christy and other recent commenters, but after a year and a half of writing about Cuppy’s Coffee, warning people, donating my time writing dozens of posts, my sympathy toward the Java Jo’z and Cuppy’s Coffee depositers is wearing a bit thin.
If you haven’t followed this saga, in a nutshell there are hundreds of …read more