Courthouse News this morning draws our attention to the plight of Brwa Aziz, a dentist in Iraq for whom the mission has not been accomplished. Aziz, you see, enjoys sinking his teeth into North American fast food. He’s already serving up smoothies, as a franchisee of Canada-based Juice Zone, and for the past year he’s been trying to open up a Wings-Pizza-N-Things outlet in the third-largest city in Iraq. The Wings on Fire? That’s the lip-smacking, tongue-scorching taste of freedom.
But in a lawsuit filed in Dallas County District Court, Aziz claims the Northwest Dallas-based fast-food chain — founded by the man behind Pizza Inn way back when — has taken a small fortune in franchise fees and purchase orders (close to $200,000) and refused to send him the start-up materials.