EX-MACCA'S CEO COMPARES BASKIN ROBBINS PROFIT MODEL TO THE BANKRUPT KRISPY KREME

23 year veteran of McDonalds Australia, Merrill Pereyra, has warned punters away from Baskin Robbins in Australia, comparing the failed profit model at Krispy Kreme donuts to Baskin Robbins in Australia.


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He points out the same issues franchisees in Australia have had over the years - "The franchise model must be geared to sales sustainability and supporting the franchisees to gain a return on investment as soon as possible"


A completely contrary condition to the current Baskin Robbins franchisees around the country.   

DUNKIN BRANDS ATTACKS INCOME OF AUSTRALIAN SHOP OWNERS BY KILLING CUSTOM BASKIN ROBBINS CAKES

Several Baskin Robbins franchisees have been gobsmacked with the order from new USA management that they will shortly be unable to produce custom ice cream cakes for their customers.  This is being done to push the sale of factory pre made cakes shipped to Australia by Dunkin Brands from their factory.


The sale of custom cakes has been much of the income for many shop owners in especially in regional areas right around the country.  


The factory cakes are said to be impersonal and carry higher profits for Dunkin and lower profits for the shop owners.    This would look to be the new face of the brand management; stripping more from the franchisees to compensate the investors of this now public company in the USA.  Dunkin has been raising prices to the franchisees in the USA at both Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins despite supplier pricing cuts.  Venture capital companies are still stripping money from the battlers and giving it to the under taxed rich people in the USA AND Australia!

DUNKIN BRANDS USES AMERICAN-STYLE TRICKS AGAINST THEIR LONG-SUFFERING BASKIN ROBBINS AUSTRALIA FRANCHISEES

While most Australian Baskin Robbins franchisees breathed a sigh of relief when the Allied Brands (ABQ) criminal enterprise went pear-shaped last October, many are now writing that Dunkin Brands (DNKN), who are operating the chain now directly from the USA, are proving just as ruthless at stripping money from the franchisees for product costs.


While some imported supplies have dropped slightly in price, ice cream pricing now direct from Dunkin has not declined despite the removal of Allied Brands from the supply chain, and the Australian dollar rising from 85 cents to now over $1.07.   With Dunkin now a public company in the USA (DNKN on the NASDAQ), their first report to the market, issued in part to paint a "rosy" picture and jack up the share price, discussed the massive profits being made in markets like Australia.


And with a business model that didn't work for most franchisees under Allied Brands, most expected some relief from the price paid to Dunkin directly for what used to come from a third party.  And if this isn't enough, Dunkin is now running a PR campaign to jack up the price further to Australia and other markets!


US franchisees have been given a report similar to that given to Coldstone franchisees that supposedly "justifies" the massive price increases.   This report has been refuted by most in the ice cream business, but clearly international locations like Australia, supplied directly from the USA, are going to get the worst of this mess.


The same issues that confounded Allied Brands (ABQ) are now in play with Dunkin - now a public company, with majority Ventura Capital owners who are using the public entity to cash-out big.  The same Venture Capital vultures that so thoroughly trashed the world economy two years ago.

They should go to hell.












With the Australian Baskin Robbins now trying desperately to grow the franchise numbers under the pressure of these Venture Capital criminals, it's hard to see how the 15 years of bad history and their disinterest in profitability are going to result in new Australian shop owners.

7-11 MANAGEMENT DISCOVERS THEIR TRAGIC MISTAKE WITH SHANE RADBONE, AS DOES TIMEZONE WITH TONY CAVANAGH

SHANE RADBONE AT HIS NEW JOB

Former Allied Brands Ltd. (ABQ) CEO Shane Radbone and his wife Victoria Radbone have continued to shun the repayment of their close-to MILLION DOLLAR sweetheart loan made to them while he was CEO.  Yes, essentially he signed-off on a loan to HIMSELF.  Radbone has been confronted with this ABQ larceny by franchisees at his new employer, 7-Eleven Australia and some of the 7-Eleven franchisees.  Radbone has already made some moves to erode 7-Eleven franchisee profitability, the same job he had at ABQ which resulted in the collapse of the company.  Anger has mounted with 7-Eleven CEO Warren Wilmot apparently shouting mad at HR Manager Michael Phillips who was charged with "checking Radbone out".  Something he now has discovered.  


Likewise one of the key "black hands" in the destruction of Allied Brands Ltd. was Tony Cavanagh.  Cavanagh too was able to secure another position on the other side of the continent in Perth, where he found a company too ignorant to run even a cursory check on his bonafides.  The LAI Group has brought Cavanagh in to fuck over the businesses of TimeZone franchisees, who are facing a virtual collapse of their business not unlike the video biz.   


Both of these men are the subject of active criminal investigations at ASIC and the ACCC for their actions in the collapse. 


One other "black hand" is reported to be hiding out in Fiji, attempting to stay out of the public eye in the hope he won't also be the subject of criminal indictment.  Investigations into this report continue and some further information should be available soon.

NEW PERTH SKANKS MOVE IN ON ALLIED BRANDS SHELL - CREDITORS TAKE IT UP THE ARSE - THE FIX IS IN WITH STILL NO ACCOUNTING FOR THE MISSING MILLIONS STOLEN FROM ABQ

Vincents Accountants, the "independent" administrators of the collapsed Allied Brands Ltd., (ABQ), yesterday allowed a reorganisation bid from Perth solicitor Roger Steinpreis to move forward. "NO" voters claimed the meeting was "rigged" with many of the creditors failing to show after a continual stream of scheduled and cancelled meetings by Peter Dinoris.

Steinpreis, name partner at Steinpreis Paganin lawyers, are known purchasers of ASX "shells" for which to back in a new company, many in the resources business. Steinpreis, along with cohort Richard Poole, is oft described as "less than reputable", to be kind. Much of the Steinpreis proposal (Blueknight Corporate Pty. Ltd., directors Steinpreis and Paganin) hinges on MORE capital raising for ABQ (a company that has allowed previous capital raising to disappear into director pockets) with the plan to use the money to SUE the billion dollar parent of Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin' Brands! Steinpreis and associates also control another virtually failed ASX-listed company, Apollo Consolidated Ltd. (AOP).  Once these shares were worth .50, now they're less than a penny at .006.  More business genius at work!

One reading of this blog which catalogues the day-to-day criminal activities of Allied Brands over the last several years has lawyers around the world collapsing in fits of laughter at the thought of such an action. Even with two of the henchmen in this ABQ fraud machine canned by Blueknight (Lachlan McIntosh and Peter "I'm outta money" Graham), the chance of any legal actions against Dunkin' Brands being successful is absurd.

So you've got to wonder what's really going on when one group of dodgy investors (Blueknight) replaces another (Allied Brands), with the cooperation of the administrator (Vincents).

SPY INFILTRATES BASKIN ROBBINS IN SEARCH ORCHESTRATED BY ABQ DIRECTORS

With a new report just released by the Allied Brands Ltd. (ABQ) Administrator Vincents, soon to be liquidators, one of the reorganisation proposals has come from failed ABQ directors Peter Graham, Lachlan McIntosh (also director at Korda Mentha), and dudded Cookieman Peter Elligett.

Elligett has lost Cookieman in the collapse to US-based cookie giant Mrs. Fields, so he's hitched his star to the other two dodgy directors.

The director's proposal to Vincents is built on the idea that they would finance a lawsuit against billion dollar behemoth Dunkin' Brands after losing the Baskin Robbins brand. This despite the fact that Peter Graham personally ran Allied into the ground not once, but twice in the last ten years, both times getting "bailed out" by Dunkin largess! This despite the fact that Graham would have over 100 Baskin Robbins franchisees lined up to tell their tales of fraud, deception, deceit, and lies at the hands of Graham, McIntosh, and others. What hubris drives these crooks?

The director's DCA also had as a requirement a release of the directors from "all claims and liabilities" - essentially Graham and McIntosh, who have every right to expect prosecution for crimes, wanted a "get out of jail free" card. Which these two wealthy men are willing to pay for in their shady plan to "sue" Dunkin' Brands!

We've learned however is a spy has been employed by new management at Baskin Robbins Australia who is systematically funnelling information back to the Graham/McIntosh/Elligett group. The proverbial "nigger in the woodpile". This shows only the depths of immorality that caused the destruction of so many families and investors in the brands, and Allied Brands Ltd. Graham and McIntosh in particular are set to be prosecuted for their criminal actions, along with senior henchmen. They're not going to be ruining anyone's lives again anytime soon, and hopefully will be some ATSI brother's jailhouse bitch.

Let the hangings begin!

GRAHAM FAMILY RUSHES TO FIND NEW FRANCHISES TO CONTINUE THEIR DISCREDITED OPERATIONS ON THE GOLD COAST

Original owners of the Baskin Robbins brand in Australia have been contacting the owners of US brands currently unrepresented in Australia, as part of the "buyout" plans being fronted to the Allied Brands Ltd. (ABQ) liquidators.

Peter, David, and Trent Graham are said to be working the phones trying to secure a base of franchised businesses they can use to begin exploiting Australian and Asian suckers again.

Word is that three brands in particular have been targeted - Cold Stone and Maggie Moo, US brands similar to local Australian brand Cold Rock, and biscuit and cupcake purveyour Otis Spunkmeyer.

The Cold Stone execs knocked back the Allied Brand crooks right away. The others are currently being contacted to ensure they're aware of what's gone on here. With meetings of the creditors being delayed again until 28 June, Vincents Accountants look to be looking for some deep pocket to at least ensure the bankrupt ABQ can pay the administrator's fees. It's now a race between the crooks and the crooks to see who ends up controlling this dead shell of a company.