Imagine, you have a company that has operated since 1964 and you have a supplier that has done business with you since you began. Now imagine that with little to no warning, you drop your supplier in favor of another company. Now realize, your original supplier did nothing wrong as a supplier, your upper management just decided to switch.
There is nothing wrong with switching suppliers and offering different products. I think the problem here is the 38 year history and SHORT NOTICE of cancellation.
Shame on you Blimpie! (Not that I ever ate there before anyway, but the hell if I will now). Pepsi sucks wind anyway.
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please inform me on what the please inform me on what the hell is going on with blimpies.
Comment by a. janackas on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:03
Plus, none of my friends woul Plus, none of my friends would dare own a Blimpie’s franchise anyway.
Comment by Slobokan on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:03
But they do have a choice who But they do have a choice who they FRANCHISE with.
Comment by Slobokan on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:03
Just remember, before you boy Just remember, before you boycott Blimpie…it was Blimpie International that is irresponsible. Blimpie restaurants are franchises…owned by your neighbors and friends…and they more than likely have their life savings invested…they have no choice over who Blimpie Int’s contracts with.
Comment by Anonymous on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:03
Your assessment of the Coke t Your assessment of the Coke to Pepsi switch for Blimpie is a bit uninformed. Here are the facts:
True, Blimpie had been with Coke since the begining. Tony Conza, Pat Pompeo and David Siegel arranged that in 1964..(along with the mafia figures that originally funded Blimpie) But since the original three bled The Blimpie franchise to death with such deals as selling back to themselves the International copyrights for $18 million, causing Blimpie’s stock price to plunge from $14 a share to $1.50 a share, and their continued Kickback funds from their suppliers, (the brand building fund) used to build million dollar condos for Tony in Miami etc., the three principles decided last January (2002) to sell out to Jeffrey Enderveldt, (a California Attorney) for a mere $26 million, Jeffrey took the company private again, and in a less than holy alliance he arranged with Pepsi BEFORE the sale, Pepsi paid him $11 million or so to switch to pepsi…Jeffrey has also taken millions in bribes (kickbacks) from most of Blimpie’s suppliers of Roast Beef, Turkey etc., effectively paying for the entire franchise with supplier’s money.
Jeffrey is being sued by a consortium of Blimpie franchisees that believe that Jeffrey should pay for his own business and put that money into actually building the Building the Blimpie brand..which means using the funds to advertise and market Blimpie.
That, my friend, is the real story. Blimpie has always been raped by the people who control it. That’s why Subway kicks it’s ass…
Comment by Not Important on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:03