CUPPY’S RELOCATION LETTER – DALE NABORS
The embattled and controversial Cuppy’s Coffee franchise headquarters will be relocated from Fort Walton Beach, FL 350 miles north to Muscle Shoals, AL, home of its new parent company, FranSynergy.
The remaining staff of the Cuppy’s Coffee home office received the news in a letter from Dale “Believe & Succeed” Nabors who wrote:
“You may have heard we’ve been cleaning house;  now we’re moving the house.  After three months of evaluation, the Cuppy’s management team and I have determined that it is in the best interest, for the future success of our franchisees and the company, to …read more

Everybody’s good at something.  Seems that Cuppy’s Coffee has a talent for creating unhappy franchisees.  Yet another dissatisfied and frustrated franchise owner has reached the end of her rope.
UnhappyFranchisee.com has turned into a veritable shrine to the Cuppy’s Coffee’s and Elite Manufacturing’s amazing ability to piss people off who were once happy to give them their life savings, and more.
Read why Christy Shaw’s comment in which she calls the Cuppy’s Coffee franchise a “long expensive ride.”
I guess Christy Shaw did not follow Dale Nabors & Fransynerg’s motto “Believe & Succeed.”  I think she opted for “Get me my friggin’ coffee …read more

(FranchisePick.Com) Does Cuppy’s Coffee or Elite Manufacturing owe you a refund? Have things improved with the new ownership? Is the Danny Jones runaround a thing of the past? Has the AAFD been helpful?
Please share your experience with Cuppy’s Coffee, Elite Manufacturing and Fransynergy below.
It’s been more than a month since Dale Nabors and Fransynergy took over the assets and liabilities of the troubled Medina Enterprises, Cuppy’s Coffee and Elite Manufacturing and vowed to return deposits owed to Cuppy’s Coffee franchisees and prospects. The April 21, 2008 post on BlueMauMau stated:
Elite, the construction arm that builds …read more

(FranchisePick.Com)  I would urge anyone who has a current or past complaint or refund request with Cuppy’s Coffee, Elite Manufacturing, Medina Enterprises, Java Jo’z, Emerald Coast Manufacturing or other related entities to contact attorney Michael Webster (pictured).
Michael Webster is a frequent contributor here, on BlueMauMau.org and publishes his own franchise and anti-fraud blog at http://www.bizop.ca.   Michael is also on the standards committee of the AAFD, the “fair franchising” accreditation organization that is looking into allegations against the Cuppy’s Coffee franchise organization and its affiliate, Elite Manufacturing.
Michael Webster is coordinating the response to numerous complaints from people who are seeking …read more

(FranchisePick.com) Just when it seemed like complaints of unreturned Cuppy’s Coffee franchise fees were a thing of the past, this allegation surfaces on Rip-off Report allegedly from Rolando in Bueno Park, CA.
Cuppy’s Coffee Franchise Complaint on Rip-Off Report
ELITE MANUFACTURING, CUPPY’S COFFEE AND MORE FRANCHISE BUILDER’S CONTRACT SCAM FORT WALTON BEACH Florida ELITE MANUFACTURING
Phone: 850-243-7021
548 MARY ESTHER CUTOFF #334
FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida, 32548
Submitted: 2/8/2008 8:16:43 AM
Rolando BUENA PARK, California
We verbally enter a franchise agreement with Cuppy’s Coffee and More base in Florida to build a store in California by there builder who reside at the same address, Elite Manufacturing, …read more