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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by burned by YCI</title>
		<link>http://www.franchisespeak.com/young-chefs-academy-discussion/comment-page-33#comment-1062</link>
		<dc:creator>burned by YCI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WOW! Haven&#039;t been on here in a while. # of stores has plummeted. Last time I looked there were 60 some odd. Hopefully no ones else in the US will purchase a franchise. I see that they are trying international expansion but have no idea if that is working out. Guess they have no opportunites here in the states so they go overseas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WOW! Haven&#8217;t been on here in a while. # of stores has plummeted. Last time I looked there were 60 some odd. Hopefully no ones else in the US will purchase a franchise. I see that they are trying international expansion but have no idea if that is working out. Guess they have no opportunites here in the states so they go overseas.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by BitingTheDust</title>
		<link>http://www.franchisespeak.com/young-chefs-academy-discussion/comment-page-33#comment-1060</link>
		<dc:creator>BitingTheDust</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Per January 2012 website, 34 franchises and counting.  The end is near!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Per January 2012 website, 34 franchises and counting.  The end is near!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Are You a Martyr To Your Job? by Arianna Boes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arianna Boes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I loved your blog article.Really thank you! Fantastic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I loved your blog article.Really thank you! Fantastic.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by Reeriuntect</title>
		<link>http://www.franchisespeak.com/young-chefs-academy-discussion/comment-page-33#comment-744</link>
		<dc:creator>Reeriuntect</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hi there amazing post you have going here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi there amazing post you have going here.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by Suzy Vinson Nettles</title>
		<link>http://www.franchisespeak.com/young-chefs-academy-discussion/comment-page-33#comment-712</link>
		<dc:creator>Suzy Vinson Nettles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 21:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>4 May 2011 – 4:20pm
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>4 May 2011 – 4:20pm<br />
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by FJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>FJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>With all that being said, I think they can&#039;t be the owners.  It doesn&#039;t make sense, a PR person that would want them to respond would have crafted the response himself.  But whoever you are, thanks for the pick me up.  Please pretend to be them for a few more posts and try to answer some of the questions the other posters have put up.  If nothing else it will give me something to read during lunch.

BTW I am typing way too fast and not proofreading these posts so sorry for all the weird little typos.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all that being said, I think they can&#8217;t be the owners.  It doesn&#8217;t make sense, a PR person that would want them to respond would have crafted the response himself.  But whoever you are, thanks for the pick me up.  Please pretend to be them for a few more posts and try to answer some of the questions the other posters have put up.  If nothing else it will give me something to read during lunch.</p>
<p>BTW I am typing way too fast and not proofreading these posts so sorry for all the weird little typos.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by FJ</title>
		<link>http://www.franchisespeak.com/young-chefs-academy-discussion/comment-page-33#comment-709</link>
		<dc:creator>FJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot; In the mean time, we have been advised to publically post on this site.&quot;  

Who would advise you to publically post on a website that is populated by &quot;this same person using different anonymous monikers.&quot;? Not a PR person with 1/2 a brain.  Common sense dictates that of this is a site of one person under different names then it is no danger to you or your reputation.  Furthermore posting in the tone and manner that you posted with weird unproven allegations and of course the reposting of the same text over and over isn&#039;t going to help your case.  Either one of two things, this is not a real post or you are less experienced than originally thought.  You own a company that sells franchises geared toward kids and this is how you speak to people that are unhappy with your product?  
Do you actually take any responsibility for the misfortunes of your company?  Is everything that has happened someone else&#039;s fault?  All 100 plus stores that have closed are all the fault fo the franchisees and you did what you could to prevent all the closings?
Besides everything else that has been presented by those here, besides the hard numbers that show you have lost 75% of your stores, besides the lack of complimentary publicity in the last few years, besides the proven records that show some stores have sold and are selling for a fraction of what it costs to open them there is one glaring fact that shows a lot about what you are all about.  

You sold your flagship store and let it go under.  There is no excuse for that.  You can flail about and complain that the people you sold it to drove it under, but that just goes back to you didn&#039;t bother to check if they were qualified to purchase it.  It also shows that they didn&#039;t have the same tools you did to run it.  It also implies that it was not a money making store or was beginning to lose money and you dumped it.  If nothing else, for the sake of proving that you had a winning franchise you should have kept that store afloat no matter what.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8221; In the mean time, we have been advised to publically post on this site.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Who would advise you to publically post on a website that is populated by &#8220;this same person using different anonymous monikers.&#8221;? Not a PR person with 1/2 a brain.  Common sense dictates that of this is a site of one person under different names then it is no danger to you or your reputation.  Furthermore posting in the tone and manner that you posted with weird unproven allegations and of course the reposting of the same text over and over isn&#8217;t going to help your case.  Either one of two things, this is not a real post or you are less experienced than originally thought.  You own a company that sells franchises geared toward kids and this is how you speak to people that are unhappy with your product?<br />
Do you actually take any responsibility for the misfortunes of your company?  Is everything that has happened someone else&#8217;s fault?  All 100 plus stores that have closed are all the fault fo the franchisees and you did what you could to prevent all the closings?<br />
Besides everything else that has been presented by those here, besides the hard numbers that show you have lost 75% of your stores, besides the lack of complimentary publicity in the last few years, besides the proven records that show some stores have sold and are selling for a fraction of what it costs to open them there is one glaring fact that shows a lot about what you are all about.  </p>
<p>You sold your flagship store and let it go under.  There is no excuse for that.  You can flail about and complain that the people you sold it to drove it under, but that just goes back to you didn&#8217;t bother to check if they were qualified to purchase it.  It also shows that they didn&#8217;t have the same tools you did to run it.  It also implies that it was not a money making store or was beginning to lose money and you dumped it.  If nothing else, for the sake of proving that you had a winning franchise you should have kept that store afloat no matter what.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by burned by YCI</title>
		<link>http://www.franchisespeak.com/young-chefs-academy-discussion/comment-page-32#comment-708</link>
		<dc:creator>burned by YCI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok,not sure what they are trying to do. They keep on posting the same statement. Funny, I haven&#039;t been on this site in a while. Like FJ said this discussion had run it&#039;s course and Julie and Suzy get in here and now this board is up and running. Disturbing what they say about the law catching up with those who post on here. Sounds like censorship to me. Very Scary!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok,not sure what they are trying to do. They keep on posting the same statement. Funny, I haven&#8217;t been on this site in a while. Like FJ said this discussion had run it&#8217;s course and Julie and Suzy get in here and now this board is up and running. Disturbing what they say about the law catching up with those who post on here. Sounds like censorship to me. Very Scary!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by BS</title>
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		<dc:creator>BS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I use the name BS because that is what YCA is....a bunch of BS!!!!! I agree with only one quote from the owners: &quot;passionate and committed to our mission&quot;. They are passionate and committed to their mission of taking all your hard earned savings and you watching it go down the toliet. Not once did they offer any help....they didn&#039;t even return phone calls. They didn&#039;t attend the grand opening like they stated they would in the contract. I felt like they took our money, told us what we needed to buy from them and then turned their backs on us. We almost had to file bankruptcy and almost lost our home. I find it funny that they are down to 43 stores in the USA....the numbers should tell you something!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use the name BS because that is what YCA is&#8230;.a bunch of BS!!!!! I agree with only one quote from the owners: &#8220;passionate and committed to our mission&#8221;. They are passionate and committed to their mission of taking all your hard earned savings and you watching it go down the toliet. Not once did they offer any help&#8230;.they didn&#8217;t even return phone calls. They didn&#8217;t attend the grand opening like they stated they would in the contract. I felt like they took our money, told us what we needed to buy from them and then turned their backs on us. We almost had to file bankruptcy and almost lost our home. I find it funny that they are down to 43 stores in the USA&#8230;.the numbers should tell you something!!!!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Young Chefs Academy Franchise Discussion by FJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>FJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 15:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What?!?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What?!?</p>
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