Carrollton Coffee Shop Owners Say Company Took Them For $168000

Times-Georgian:

The owners of a Carrollton coffee shop say they were conned out of roughly $168,000 after the company they had agreed to franchise with failed to develop their store as outlined in a written agreement. And they believe they’ll never get the money back.
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Ricky and Alicia Benefield, owners of Benefield Coffee Co. in the Westover Square shopping center on Maple Street, originally signed a franchise agreement with Cuppy’s Coffee, Smoothies and More in February of 2007. According to that agreement, the Benefields would pay franchise fees to Cuppy’s and, in return, the company would pay to remodel their store and install all of the necessary equipment. appliances, furniture, even artwork.

Cuppy’s would do all the necessary remodeling and development of the store leading up to the grand opening, and once the work was complete, all the Benefields would have to do was open their doors and start making coffee, according to the Benefields.

But it didn’t work out like that. Read full story.

Photo: Thomas O’Connor / Times-Georgian.

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