When Therese Evans spoke to BusinessDay last Thursday she sounded upbeat and determined to continue her fight against Wendy’s, which had locked her out of her shop for a debt she put at $7000.
On Saturday morning Mrs Evans, 48, died of a suspected heart attack at her home in Singleton.
Last week BusinessDay highlighted Mrs Evans’s predicament as a franchisee of Wendy’s as an example of problems in the franchising industry in a story headlined ”Sundae, bloody sundae”.