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Young Chefs Academy is a “young” franchise established in 2003 by Julie Burleson, and Suzie Nettles. A cooking school for kids with over 150 franchisees. If you have any thoughts, questions or comments you’re invited to begin your discussion.
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” In the mean time, we have been advised to publically post on this site.”
Who would advise you to publically post on a website that is populated by “this same person using different anonymous monikers.”? 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’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’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’t bother to check if they were qualified to purchase it. It also shows that they didn’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.
Per January 2012 website, 34 franchises and counting. The end is near!
With all that being said, I think they can’t be the owners. It doesn’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.
4 May 2011 – 4:20pm
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hi there amazing post you have going here.
WOW! Haven’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.