Do No Evil – "On Nov. 27, Bhupinder Baber walked into a Quiznos restaurant on the outskirts of Los Angeles. He spoke briefly with the manager before stepping into the restroom and shooting himself three times in the chest. Mr. Baber died that evening. In a note he left behind, Mr. Baber, ... blamed the sandwich chain for destroying his life."
"his goals, which so far include reducing food costs enough so that profits for an average Quiznos should climb by at least $10,000 a year."
What a dream getting paid $10,000 a year for the glamorous life of a restaurant owner.
As an owner your profit is your pay check
52 weeks /year x 7days /week - Christmas Easter and Thanksgiving x Min. of 12hr days = $2.30/ hr
no, it just sounds like you and your business fail to deliver....
if you worked 12 hours a day, $2.30/hr, you could not support a family, more or less yourself. unless you are working out of your mothers basement, or suckling your spouses money teets, you dont run a business. nobody can live off of $2.30 an hour...period.
Sounds like time to boycott Quiznos in spite of their ads--or maybe indirectly because of all they spend on their ads.
I'll not have a thing from Quiznos until mext year, and only then if I have heard that they started treating their franchisees right!
Better yet, lets have some legislation breaking up such corporations, paying off the fanchisees and using our government Small Business Administration to offer no interest loans to the workers of each restrauant to buy out their owners and set up capitalist cooperatives, the only fair form of capitalist business!
Large franchise or mom and pop restaurant every one looks at the owner as an unlimited cash supply. Every 3 months the landlord comes up with a new fee. The food supplier will give you a better price if you double your order then when the products arrives the dew date is the day after you get it. Customers always trying to get something for free, bad checks, shoplifters and $1 credit card purchases. Paying a premium for bad help that rob you blind. Ah the good life. The days of Ray Kroc are long gone. If you have a boat load of money to throwaway you can send it directly to me instead of a restaurant it's a lot more efficient.
this is not good for quiznos. from what i see subways is doing much better. people are loosing their houses. a quiznos by my university had at most 5 customers in it at a time. i couldnt see how they were making money. it was like a front. i went there every week. last year i went and i was shocked to see a notice on the window that the police kicked them out. its not a joke. i know that someone probably lost there house and everything. the quiznos logo is still there but its still closed. quiznos probably would try to sale that poor location to a franchisee. not buying form their restaurants in protest is not gonna help the franchisee..and its not gonna heart the people up high. i dont see how they are in business all the stores i see are always empty. im usually the only one eating in. it is a scam you can not buy success! you have to work hard. there $8 sandwiches are competing against a full boston market meal $5 subways etc. and i know their spending a load of cash on each store.
"40 percent of Quiznos units are not breaking even" that's probably the most disturbing thing possible. I regularly eat at Quizno's...i think it's pretty good, but I could never see owning one of their franchises because of how expensive their sandwhiches are. For a complete meal it can run upwards of $10...that's a lot for fast food.
From the very beginning I was totally turned off by their product and wondered why anyone would invest in that company. It's a heart attack shop.
Plus, the idea of dipping your sandwiches in a brine is even more grotesque. I guess if you're a slob and like to eat like a pig you'd be attracted to this dining concept.
To be fair, I find all fast food joints repugnant.
I'm very anti big business and always spend locally whenever I can. And I feel for someone who got screwed by a big company. However, there's a process known as "due diligence" where you actually do your homework and make decisions grounded in reality based upon research.
Maybe Quiznos did screw him over but he made the decision to invest. Quiznos didn't kill him just like the Judas Priest song didn't kill that teenager years ago who committed suicide.
And there's a future lawsuit that will arise out of this incident or a similar one. No one is responsible for anything they do -- it's a terrible world we live in today!
There is no such thing as business without risk. Most franchises like Quiznos do well compared to other business ventures (most of which fail within the first 5 years) but there is no guarantee.
I think there are many factors that affect whether or not a franchise (or any business really) does well but I think we have all eaten at establishments where the quality and service were not good enough to justify a return visit. How well the business/franchise owner manages their business is a big determining factor.
What kind of an idiot would (1) shoot himself in the chest, and (2) take three tries to get it right? Maybe Quiznos wasn't the problem
People who lose money are unpredictable. Many a stock broker has been murdered by their client, and have also taken their own lives.
Being in business in the 21st Century isn't easy.
I've been to Quiznos, it was packed, and it was pretty good.
Don't know what the person talking about dipping in "brine" is talking about.
I don't think a corporation should be held responsible for someone's depression and disillusion that they'll be rich.
We're all looking for that easy money gig.
My sympathies go Mr. Baber's family, but he was wrong to kill himself. It really is the coward's way out to blame someone, or something else on your shortcomings.
I have eaten at Quiznos, but after reading the article, I am not inclined to do so again. We have a local restaurant where I live that produces far better subs and uses locally grown produce when it is available. To say nothing of the fact, that I prefer to cook at home. Always tastes better when I get to eat food I have prepared myself.
American corporations are self-serving entities and propogate much questionable, unethical, if not illegal behavior. However, I'm not interested in bashing corporations; that would take a lifetime. This fellow commited suicide. Not to be harsh, but anyone who commits suicide deserves their fate. Suicide is the ultimate expression of giving up. What happened this this man may have been terrible, but it didn't merit throwing away his life.
All large corporations have investors, large over head costs, not to mention having to deal with hiring and firing people that lie, cheat, and steal. Not to mention dealing with the gerneral public, i.e. people who want it all, want it now, and DON'T CARE HOW.
That being said, we should not take and put up with their lack of support for their franchise owners, instead of being ignorantly reactionary, people should develope a network of support and do something about it.
I don't think all corporations are evil, but alot of the business tactics are not throughly thought through.
I really wish people would STOP AND THINK about the serious impact they have on others with their words and actions.
The guy was just weak....he didnt look at the profit and loss sheets for comparable businesses...no market survey for the area of the store ect. He made a bad business decision and when it went sour...he couldnt handle it. NEVER gamble (especially in the franchise world) with scared money! You wouldnt do it in Vegas, why do it in business? I do not feel sorry for him....just his family. He couldnt live with the results of HIS decisions. Boycotting Quiznos just puts other people LIKE HIM out of business.....YAH...way to go!!
You don't feel sorry for him or you can't feel sorry for him? Suicide is an easy answer to a very complex problem, that's human nature. It sounds like Quizno's have put unreasonable constraints on the business that no person could forsee with due diligence checks. The people that sell these franchises are slick marketers promising support and guidance all the way. How many people enter in to these ventures under the pretence that they will recieve what was initially promised? If he had been free to purchase food, dry goods, pay wages, utilities and market the business of his own accord, maybe the business would have stood a chance of being profitable. Under the current business model, it didn't stand a chance. I feel sorry for him.
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I see too many of these stores and too many subways too. A lot of times there is just one or 2 customers in the store. I know they could not be making money.
Why don't people just use their common sense?
People think just because they buy a known business they will be succesful and rich.
Another corporate lie!
I ate at a Quizno's...once!! The food is bad and over priced.
I dropped $25.00 on two meals, I would have been happier with a couple of cheap Mac burgers.