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
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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

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

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 …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) 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