Occasionally, you will read negative comments from disgruntled or rouge franchisees trashing the reputation of their former franchisors. Often you will find these comments on blogs, forums or on websites.
Some of the discussion is persnickety and some is obviously from individuals with an axe to grind. Perhaps, these folks felt disrespected in some way or lost money and now they want revenge because the legal route did not pan out for them.
Either way, such Internet talk can drag a franchisor's reputation through the mud. Interestingly enough, some of the comments you read are reality, some are semi-based on real events and others are complete falsehoods, and it is hard to tell what is real and what is not.
Maybe it is for this reason that many franchise buyers are a little leery of franchising, and that is okay really, it forces them to do more due diligence, which is a positive thing. All franchisors are not bad, and yes, there will always be rogue franchisees and disgruntled individuals that did not go along with the team, break the rules, or had violated the franchise contract and eventually terminated for cause.
Franchisors cannot run their franchise systems like dictatorships, sure, many of the franchise agreements read like they were written by an attack dog lawyer and a franchise CEO who wishes to run things with an iron fist. In reality, you cannot run a franchise system like that, it won't work.
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