BLACK HAND TONY CAVANAGH BOUNCED FROM TIMEZONE AS PREDICTED, NOW WREAKING HAVOC AT EAGLE BOYS

TONY CAVANAGH, AT A RECENT
EAGLE BOYS CONFERENCE

One of the key architects of the Allied Brands Ltd. (ABQ) and Baskin Robbins Australia collapse was general manager and COO Tony Cavanagh.  Cavanagh, previously responsible for collapse of business at Wendys, fast talked his way into a management position at game franchise Timezone.  After the offshore owners of Timezone got a whiff of the putrid stench coming off this guy, his sorry arse disappeared. Cavanagh even removed this employment  from his LinkedIn CV.


Cavanagh has now slimed his way into the mismanaged Eagle Boys Pizza franchise.  Eagle Boys has sharply declined in the market after megalomaniac Tom Potter was pushed out, and huge numbers of Eagle Boys franchisees have their shops up for sale.


His first task at Eagle Boys is to order a major refurbishment at the chain.  When this was done at Allied Brands, architects, shopfitters and others in the process reported that "kickbacks" to ABQ were required to work on these projects.  This had the result of inflating the cost of these improvements from 40%-60% or more!  Cavanagh would tolerate no deviance from the selected contractors.  This is reportedly the process now underway at Eagle Boys.  Are kickbacks being paid there too?


Cavanagh is also again in daily intimate contact with failed marketing staff Chanah Mulawa and Michelle Elgindi.  Hope Eagle Boys have notified their HR solicitors!  Likewise the 457 Visa Scam was conducted under Cavanagh's watch.  


All of this great news for Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Pizza Haven.

HEAL GROUP CLAIMS OF SKILLED FRANCHISING REFUTED BY FACTS

During the last year of the Allied Brands collapse, the defrauding of franchisees was assisted by the Heal Group Company, who paid cash to ABQ executives in order to sell shops on their behalf in the over saturated Brisbane market.

The Heal Group has now got the same kind of deal with Urban Burger, one of a dozen new burger bar franchises being touted in Australia.  The failure rate of this kind of business is extraordinarily high - in some cases more than 85% of these shops fail in the first two years due to high costs, crippling franchisee fees, and lack of a viable business model.

The current pricing of a new Baskin Robbins franchise since management was assumed by the US-based Dunkin Brands dropped to the $200K range from what the Heal Group was expecting - Heal Group still has a non-performing location in Morayfield for sale at $385,000, down from the original $440,000 it was demanding.  Current pricing of Baskin shops across Australia is now $220,000 or less, with Dunkin rightfully pointing out that a franchise company business model should not require the sale of shops for more than they cost to fit out.  The Heal Group shop at Morayfield is already proven to be a dog, but that doesn't stop them from hoping for a victim they can offload it on.

The Heal Group is one of the current group of "rogue franchisors" who sell franchises with fast talking salespeople, flashy promises, and in this case a has-been basketball player "celebrity"  - the exact formula that collapsed Allied Brands and their has-been footy player   Shane Radbone.  Heal often touts his American NBA experience, when in fact he was a bench player with lousy stats and a failed NBA career.  And Shane Heal like his mentor Shane Radbone is focused on his "motivational speaking career", an activity that doesn't take kindly to executives from corrupt companies.


Urban Burger is destined to fail.  Potential franchisees should run, not walk away from this disreputable Gold Coast-based company.