(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 […]
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Remember Java Jo’z & Cuppy’s Coffee?
The September issue of Franchise Times recounts how multiple blogs, including Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer, FranchisePick.Com, BluemauMau.org publicized the problems plaguing prospective franchisees of Java Jo’z (including Scoble’s brother Ben) when they were unable to get their refundable $30,000 deposits returned as promised. Numerous franchisees, unable to find suitable locations on which to drop a pre-fab Java […]
We all know Roy Snowden as the swell guy who collected $20K and $30K refundable deposits from lots of individuals who wanted to open his Java Jo’z drive-thru coffee kiosk franchises. By the time they came back for their refunds, they found that good old Roy had sold the company’s assets to Morg Morgan […]
When I first blogged on the Scoble & Cuppy’s controversy here, on Blue MauMau and on FranBest.Com, I had no idea that this story would gain such widespread attention and controversy. A number of factors converged to make this not only a franchise industry story, and not even just a Java Jo’z and Cuppy’s […]
Franchise public relations maven Rhonda Sanderson of Sanderson & Associates posted this release on Blue MauMau on behalf of Cuppy’s Coffee:
Cuppy’s Coffee Emerges with Spirit Undeterred After Mis-Association with Troubled Coffee Chain
(Fort Walton Beach, Fla.)— When Cuppy’s Coffee & More, Inc., was formed in 2006, it hoped to capitalize on Americans’ never-ending thirst for specialty […]
Franchise writer Janet Sparks interviewed the in-house attorney for Cuppy’s Coffee, and posted the company’s explanation on her blog at Blue MauMau:
In an effort to put to rest the never-ending blog mayhem related to Cuppy’s Coffee, Smoothies and More and its purchase of assets of Java Jo’z Coffee and More, Lou Manganello, the company’s in-house […]
The Blogosphere: It sounds like something from a Star Trek episode. And it’s just as strange to business owners or corporate marketers who find themselves beamed down onto this odd land, and have to deal with its peculiar inhabitants: A species of beings called Bloggers, who subsist almost entirely on caffeine, […]
Steven Lewis of Breakaway Content was one of the first to blog on Robert Scoble’s original post, noting how a single Scoble’s post could bring widespread attention to an issue. Here’s part of his update post:
The disappearance of all the Scoble brothers’ posts without explanation and the anodyne blurb that now constitutes the whole […]
Let’s say you are doing due diligence before investing your life savings into a particular franchise or business opportunity. You put the company name into several search engines and find no complaints or negative comments. That’s a good sign, right?
Not necessarily.
It could mean that somehow all signs of controversy have “disappeared” from the […]
b5media blogger Tris Hussey ( Business Blog Consulting, Homely Scientist ) posts:
Is Cuppy’s trying to stifle bad PR about them?
Guy Pelletier expresses disappointment with Robert Scoble in light of Scoble’s assertion that blogs should never be deleted:
Scoble, say it isn’t so!!
b5media blogger Eric Eggleston (Common Sense PR) posts:
Franchise Conflict Goes Silent - Sinister, or Reputation […]
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