The NDAs are very real and not really intended to keep us from letting people know we were laid off but more to keep us from coming forward and sharing what we know and can prove in respect to corporate ripping off the franchisees. It’s always existed to some extent but has gone wild in last several months with very unethical tactics to enrich the company at the franchisees expense who invested life savings in most cases to franchise with this company. The attorney general should launch a full scale investigation into what they have been and are doing to franchisees. They have become so arrogant in this practice in 2022 compared to prior years where they were camouflaging their actions better bragging that franchisees can’t do anything about it because corporate has deep enough pockets to drag out the issue indefinitely until opposition runs out of money to fight them legally. They then run the franchisee off for cents on the dollar or take their store back for nothing by starting a white glove bully campaign holding them to a standard they can’t even accomplish in their corporate locations with a lot more resources available to them.
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To be fair, many franchised stores are absolutely disgusting. I’ve got pictures of shriveled up Big Bites on the roller grill at a store near me. The franchisees refuse to write off old, disgusting food. If they get their store taken back I’ll be happy.
What do you know about the core mark fu-kery that is currently the scam flavor of the month that is being used to have us over a barrel? All pun intended.