Lawyers and Franchising
By
Lance Winslow
It is amazing how the Federal Trade Commission has destroyed
franchising, by selling the industry out to lawyers. We need to have
accountability for the regulators and we can start by firing the head of the
Franchising Group at the Federal Trade Commission and anyone who has worked in
that department in the last 6-10 years. Let me give you an example of what the
Federal Trade Commission’s Franchising Group’s policies have made a mockery out
of the purest of business models; Franchising.
A Judge ruled that the Krispy Kreme franchisor partly contributed to the
underperforming franchisees. Many of which are close to bankruptcy, of course it
wasn’t the diet craze of South Beach or Atkins, no, it was the franchisors
fault? But the franchisor had problems as it expanded to fast and the market
changed, which is a normal business risk? Without risk there is no free
enterprise. The judge further ordered the franchisor to continue to ship product
to the franchisees, even when the franchisee was not able to pay for the goods?
What kind of crap is this?
It gets worse, but how can this be? Well check this out: The lawyers
representing the franchisee are cousins of the lawyers representing the
franchisees. Interesting? Indeed. Now, then how do you suppose that happened?
“Hey, cous; I have a plan. You see we. . . whisper, whisper, whisper and then
we both make money and who cares who wins the suit, we make lots of money in
fees?”
Isn’t it sickening the lawyers are ruining franchising in this way? Why is
this happening? It is happening due to the incompetence of the Federal Trade
Commission in my opinion. As one man turns over an industry to lawyers, an
industry that accounts for one-third of every consumer dollar spent in our
nation and represents 450,000 outlets and an estimate 15 million jobs? Isn’t
that just great. You have heard my opinion, what do you think?
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