Tasti D-Lite LLC Wins Over 36 Independents - Rationality Not Suspected
If you ever needed proof that there is one born every minute, please read the following:
Existing Tasti D-Lite Owners Sign Franchise Agreements With Tasti D-Lite LLC
Tasti D-Lite, New York’s favorite guilt-free dessert is ready to remodel a majority of existing retail centers with the new Tasti D-Lite brand image. As of last week, the owners of 36 existing independently owned and operated centers, located primarily in New York City, finalized franchise conversion agreements with the Tasti D-Lite management team.[FBO]
Especially charming for its naivete was this quote:
Newly converted Franchisee Bruce Weiss adds, "It is clear that Tasti D Lite LLC has already spent an enormous amount of time money and effort and has assembled a very impressive team with great expertise, vision, passion and dedication that will no doubt make this brand the number one frozen dessert in our category in a very short time.
Mr. Weiss was at a loss to explain how being number one in the frozen dessert category was going to add to his pocket book.
I have no doubt that Mr. Weiss and the other 35 "converts" talked with all of the Sona MedSpa, Mailboxes Etc, and other Amos franchisees.
There is nothing more impressive than mass stupidity. It warms my soul to know that Jimbo Amos still has what it takes as a con.
The honeymoon lasts as long the New York Franchise Act statue of limitations run - is that a year or two, Paul?
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A Dallas Tasti D-Lite in Snider Plaza, Dallas is reported by an eye witness as just having closed down. That's not very long after this brand new ice cream chain has started to franchise outside New York.
Notice the For Lease sign on the windows in the photo taken early this morning. The Tasti D-Lite sign looks very clean and new.
My guess is that there are many more closures of new stores coming down the pipes. Stay tuned.
"Local investment banker Aaron Webster owns the new location and the Tasti D-Lite franchise rights for South Texas; he plans to open at least 40 units throughout Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Galveston over the next 10 years."
Not a relation, I assure you.
Michael Webster, a franchisee attorney in Toronto, Ontario, publishes a website on business opportunities and franchises called "The BizOp News"
Houston. Hopefully he is someone with a rich daddy and it doesn't matter,
Richard Solomon, FranchiseRemedies.com, has over 45 years experience with franchise litigation and crisis management. He is a graduate of The Citadel and The University of Michigan Law School
franchise?--
Richard Solomon, FranchiseRemedies.com, has over 45 years experience with franchise litigation and crisis management. He is a graduate of The Citadel and The University of Michigan Law School
Richard Solomon, FranchiseRemedies.com, has over 45 years experience with franchise litigation and crisis management. He is a graduate of The Citadel and The University of Michigan Law School
It isn't without trying!!!
We tried and tried to warn them about Jim!!
It will take approx 6-18 months to figure out what a MASSIVE mistake
they have made. Paul Steinberg should get his business cards circulating!
Michael Webster PhD LLB
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Michael Webster, a franchisee attorney in Toronto, Ontario, publishes a website on business opportunities and franchises called "The BizOp News"
Hey, I am even willing to do the first month faxing for free!
Just get me the numbers.
Hell Paul, you might be able to retire off of this!
Sit back, have a beer, file yet another Amos lawsuit when he
DESTROYS your franchise.
First up will be all new cabinets from PIN out of the Dallas area. You will be dealing with Jay Scalise, former employee of MBE, under Jimbo's reign!
The Bible says we will know Christians by their fruits.. Their lives will show if they are indeed Christians.
Amos and Heather Rose you are giving Christians a bad name. From all the bad stories about you, stop using Christianity as a way to conn people. Leave your faith out of your business dealings. You have a bad name already. Don't give Jesus a bad name.
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Ms. Jorgensen is spot-on with her comments about Amos and his daughter, now, Heather Rose ( Now, ELROD). Amos has for years used his pious form of Christianity in an attempt to boost his credibility and to deflect his demonstrated lack of integrity and his demonstrated track record of greed and self-interest, in the extreme. He is a modern-day Elmer Gantry...a fraud. His daughter is as phony as he is. They've both done a great deal of damage to unsuspecting victims in the world of franchising.
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I will not use my faith to get business. If I do not walk the talk than forget it. I get very upset when people play the role of goody Christian person in business. We are all just people. We all blow it.
Amos and Heather Rose in my opinion should be ashamed of themselves. I guess they do not know that their Lord is watching. They have hurt many people. I would love to talk to Amos and Heather Rose. Shame on them for using the Lord for financial gain. In the meantime they have conned so many people. Using Christ for a conn is so easily done. I have seen it too often in business.
How many names does Ms. Rose have. I count at least 4. I guess thei chrisian faith allows multiple divorces. I know its amos, rose, elrod I cant keep track of em. Are there more.
If you don't have anything new about the business of Tasti D-Lite then don't bore us.
In your book Jim Amos may be Elmer Gantry, but let me point out that you, sir, are no Sinclair Lewis. For you, why tell a story when a label will do?
I don't know what your beef is with Ms. Elrod, but she is off to newer franchise concepts to muddle through. It might make interesting reading, but not here. After all, she has nothing to do with Tasti D-Lite.
All the negative comments about Amos and his daughter are dead-on. Low-lifes, exploiters, arrogant, insincere, dishonest, double-standards, no integrity, liars...on and on. They richly deserve all the negative coming down upon them and history has judged them both rightly.
Tasti-D-Liters were forewarned by many. I assume you've booked your own first-class berth on the Tasti-D-Titanic.
Bon voyage, young zealot. We're praying for you and waiting for the legal action to follow in the bow-wake, as always.
Hmm, Brian thinks that franchising needs an expose, similar to what Sinclair Lewis did for the meat packing industry circa 1910.
Couldn't agree more.
Jim Amos and Heather Rose would make a great intro.
The poor schmucks that bought into the Jim Amos story for Tasti have about 2 to 3 years before they realize how badly they were taken.
But heck, we all predicted it.
Michael Webster, a franchisee attorney in Toronto, Ontario, publishes a website on business opportunities and franchises called "The BizOp News"
I am no Sinclair Lewis, to be sure. However, I commend you for standing tall in calling Amos and his cronies to accountability. He and they comprise a malignant group who have preyed upon franchisees for decades, in several settings. It is amazing he has succeeded to any degree, but it looks like the walls are at long last closing in.
an exoneration of being gay?--
Richard Solomon, FranchiseRemedies.com, has over 45 years experience with franchise litigation and crisis management. He is a graduate of The Citadel and The University of Michigan Law School
Richard Solomon, FranchiseRemedies.com, has over 45 years experience with franchise litigation and crisis management. He is a graduate of The Citadel and The University of Michigan Law School
Fruits is the type of person they are. In the case of Amos and Heather Rose, they are indeed using their faith as a way to gain financially they are not good people. Their lives show no Christian values. According to the Bible they are like bad apples, rotten to the core.
Many stories Jesus preached to the crowds were in parables. The saying you know Christians by their fruits. It means the way they are.
I'd like to think that in terms of Amos and his clan, He'd say "Stone the creeps"!
In fairness to DoDil, we need to remember that there is a history of public piety in franchise fora by this particular man.
As such, he can't complain about being judged by those professed values. I am reminded of Richard Solomon when the Spuds To Go franchisor threatened to sue him and said that he was going to post an expose on Solomon; Solomon admitted to being every bit as bad as SpuddiePie claimed and then some.
Solomon doubts that St. Peter will call his name , but Jim Amos rules his world knowing with certainty that St. Peter has Jimbo at the top of the list. My guess is that their respective viewpoints inform their actions, and a theologian might hazard that both Solomon and Amos will be proved wrong (..to the chagrin of both, LoL).
Mr. Amos would take a lot less flak if he either were less of a bible-thumping showoff or in the alternative, if he did not accumulate the Brice/Sona/UPS-MBE record that he has.
Paul Steinberg
Franchisee Attorney, New York City, Ph: 212-529-5400
Paul Steinberg, Franchisee Attorney, New York City, Ph: 212-529-5400
All the negative comments about Amos and his daughter are dead-on. Low-lifes, exploiters, arrogant, insincere, dishonest, double-standards, no integrity, liars...on and on. They richly deserve all the negative coming down upon them.
I saw the new Tast-D exterior in Manhattan (Lexington Ave btwn 85 & 86 Streets) and it is eye-catching. If I can find my camera cable I'll post a shot.
Paul Steinberg
Franchisee Attorney, New York City, Ph: 212-529-5400
Paul Steinberg, Franchisee Attorney, New York City, Ph: 212-529-5400
Of course it will be wonderful. I liked the UPS trade dress, too.
And let me guess: it was "free" to all those who signed the franchise agreement on or before April 1st, 2008.
What people will do for trinkets.
Michael Webster PhD LLB
Franchise News
Michael Webster, a franchisee attorney in Toronto, Ontario, publishes a website on business opportunities and franchises called "The BizOp News"