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Hard to believe their are some that still come here everyday that haven't been a shareholder in years! Do I like or agree with the way things went down in VB? No!
The snakes community forum is a hot mess, just like the company. Hard to believe people are still promoting this POS. Brings a whole new meaning to head stuck in the sand.
Is Beachlifeguy in here? He's an active poster on the official S&L forums. So just curious how many of us are on both of the boards and following how other 'investors' are investing in the company's best interests by torpedoing any and all interactions with members of the local communities? Telling locals to a troubled store that he doesn't give a fuck about them or their complaints is certainly a great way to build bridges and mend fences.
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I'm not surprised that they've walked back their initial comments. It's more likely than not that this is a ruse and is actually a soft close. This MO has been used before with Glendale, Guelph, and St. Catherine's. Can't believe that some keep on accepting their poor business ethics,practices and total disregard for Minority SH.
Nope. Supposedly they were in there end of last week pulling out kitchen equipment. Not anything else has happened. Certainly not a remodel or a reopening. They changed it to April and now it's a TBD sort of deal. Personally, they'd be better off staying closed. At least then they wouldn't be even more embarrassed by the shitshow they created.
Come on now, you can buy 10,000 shares for $32, load up the powder, how can you lose, its getting ready to pop, get in now before you have to chase. Ha, ha,ha, ha .ROFLMFAO
ZERO trades/b> for this headed-to-zzzzzzzzzzzzero subpennyscamturd.
Did VA Beach Reopen on 3/16/24??
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Yup.Spotted AMFE as a pennyscam right away - it is soooo obviously a pennyscam (now deep subpennyscam) turd.
I bin studying pennystock cons for four decades now. Started pre-internet back when the Denver exchange was big for pennystocks and the Pink sheets were actually printed (Xeroxed or mimeographed) on pink paper. Online stock forums were on pre-internet BBSs and BBS networks like FIDOnet, NirvanaNet, TOTSE, LunaticPhringe, New Dork Sublime, Compuserve, Prodigy etc
It is easy to spot pennyscams.
Wow....you have been negative on this stock since it was $.12?
***** What an absolute pathetically run company -- stock has zero chance of any rebounds with this incompetent management team here
FUNN ??? NOPE !!!
ENOUGH SAID ? NA !
Congrats, you can check account history. I never hid that fact. I'm just shocked that you've apparently been here years and invested your money into this and still haven't figured out that the whole thing is a shit show. So between the two of us, one of which has never invested a dime(which would give me a cool 35 shares at current value of this dumpster fire), and the other who has held bags for how long now? Between the two of us, one of us clearly needs a lot less time to figure out when to not give them money.
Yahso if The Clownshow tries to reopen the former VA Beetch SnL, I expect pickets and folks handing out handbills to anyone entering SnL explaining in detail what happened to the ex-employees.
I wood nott be surprised if that happens at one or more of the remaining-butt-dwindling SnL cafes - in sympathy with the VA Beetch victims.
Don't take my word for it. I have the reverse Midas touch when it comes to trading stocks. There was one occasion when I was right about something but please don't take me seriously. I wish I could be right about this but odds are against it.
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Provo also comes to mind. Considering alcohol is an important source of a cafe/restaurant's revenues; the S&L morons thought it would be good idea to acquire a cafe where the locals don't drink alcohol........ Stupid as F*ck...... Yes, let's upsell fountain drinks with free refills.
Thanks for a genuine, sincere, thoughtful post.
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This is known as a soft-closing boyz and girlz, not a "renovation". lol
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So you're advising people hold on to shares of a stock worth less than a penny, a stock that I will point out by the tracker has consistently gone down month after month, year after year. Don't be duped into what? Holding on to a worthless stock in a company ran by idiots who can't manage to turn a profit? So which one of the two failures in charge are you that you're encouraging people to hold out on the stock so you can give yourself another bonus for your excellent performance while you have news stations reporting on failures in your company? Because really that's the only logical answer I can come up with because anyone else is going to look at this disaster and have no desire to touch it with a 10-ft pole. When you can buy hundreds of shares for less than $1 and the amount of shares you can buy for that dollar seem to go up every day, there's no logical reason to keep holding on. It's not going to turn a profit, they're not going to recover in Virginia Beach, and realistically speaking their continued actions constitute a failure to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders through their ineptitude and unwillingness to do things that would actually better the business instead of just causing more failures.
All this negativity is hilarious. I suggest everyone hold and not sell. Dont be duped.
With the great publicity in VA Beetch,, who would ever want to work for these abusive clowns and Miss Management NASTY SUSAN.
If this Clownshow is dumb enuff to reopen VA Beetch, they will have only three labor pools from which to recruit:
1. Methheads
2. Parolee felons living in halfway house
3 Methadone clinic dropouts who need quick cash for a fix to "get well"
The individuals who hold this common stock are stupid. it really is just that simple.
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and other similar MORON penny- and subpenny turds. Because they are only bought by morons.
These are stocks for losers and bought and owned by losers who are simultaneously morons - a double-banger!
The Snakes and Lattes concept is great (in my opinion) and that makes many overlook the ineptitude of it's management. And once that is overlooked, kiss your money goodbye.
There are tens of thousands of examples of great concepts that never went anywhere because the importance of experienced management was never considered, thinking the product would just sell itself and be a success just because it was "a great idea".
And our management is the WORST!
Then why are people still supporting them and holding and buying shares? I mean it honestly makes no sense. Nothing I've seen has shown this to be something that's likely to change so why do people keep dumping money that's being lost hand over fist? It's a practically worthless stock for a company ran by people who can't succeed at what they're doing.
This is a classic case of them wanting to control 100% of it, including the right to gift themselves all of it if they want to. They have already evidenced that with their previous "gifts" to themselves, stealing control from the shareholders. Those "gifts were worth over $5M. They will not give up that claimed "right" for anything, including getting qualified executives. Simply put, they would rather have 100% of 10% of potential value than 10% of 100% of potential value.....because they WANT that 100% more than anything.
These guys are just lightweight scammers destroying shareholder value for their own benefit. They have ZERO qualifications to run anything....except a few previous companies they have run into the ground.
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At this point, the excuse of not having the resources to hire a CEO is overwhelmingly clear that not having one is costing us even more. Ben and Roger are good at fuggn off and lying to their shareholders repeatedly. Why can’t their weak mind grasp the fact that they are holding this company back in many many ways from real potential.
I found out about the reschedule from keeping track on their internal postings on their board, as well as local postings on the Facebook page for Virginia Beach and the local groups there that have definitely been keeping track of everything. And yes I am a local there.
And I can tell you from personal experience as well as others in the area, the staff was the only reason a lot of us even kept going. Since S&L took over, cost went up, quality of experience went down, food quality went down, and the entire atmosphere changed. While I recognize this is an investor forum, so some of this commentary may fall on deaf ears, there was a definite tone shift in my opinion from a more casual locally driven establishment to one that definitely felt more corporate. Which is not exactly what I and a lot of people look for as gamers. Local gaming communities tend to be very big on supporting local, because gaming for much of our lives has been a very niche hobby, be it board games, role-playing games, card games, what have you. So the type of people who opened the shops and places that supported this hobby were usually locals and enthusiasts just as much as we are.
So a corporation coming in, doing a buyout and a rebrand while basically doing away with what made the place somewhere we wanted to come, doesn't exactly spark a lot of loyalty in the community, certainly not the sort of repeat customer base that you want to have coming there every week with disposable income. Then abruptly firing the entire staff, all of which were local gamers an active members in our community... Well, you see the fallout and the backlash of that decision.
Local breweries are already setting up board game nights, there's at least two people I know of who are actively working on separate business plans to set up competing establishments, most of the major gaming stores in the area are increasing the amount of community game nights they're hosting in response. How bad do you think it's going to look when the follow-up news articles talk about community engagement and donations to the fired employees until they can find new jobs, or the charity auctions for them because corporate is incompetent and can't manage a location. Personally, I don't care if the site ever reopens, I can tell you that there's hundreds of people in the area who spend tons of money on gaming that will never spend another dime there. This isn't a generic sit down restaurant or fast food place, this is a niche establishment designed to more or less cater to a demographic that they just ostracized and turned against them. Sure, they may get the drop-ins and the casuals who don't know, and with the area there's always tons of new people moving in and out, but that's not going to keep them open for business long-term. For that you have to have regulars who frequent the place often. And that's gone.
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I appreciate the additional update.
How did you find out about the change of dates to being closed indefinitely "for repairs"?
Susan's "justification" of abruptly firing employees without notice never made much sense; especially hearing the ex-employees stories on what transpired after the "acquisition". And, being able to secure contractors for the renovations - and complete w/i 2-3 weeks, hire and train new staff by the 3/16/24 "reopening day" was totally unrealistic; since FUNN management has proven time and again - that they simply cannot execute anything in a timely manner.
Do you think the new staff can install the cappuccino machine and bring the kitchen and lights to code? LOL :)
Hopefully, you can visit the site every couple of weeks to give us an update on that location?
I'm assuming you've played games there. What was your experience like?
I mean at this point it's pretty clear they have no clue what they're doing or talking about. In 5 years they've lost 99% of the value of the company.
As for the remodel in Virginia Beach that was originally supposed to reopen this Saturday, it hasn't even started. It got pushed a month then no date to reopen at all. Is the current plan to basically sit on a location full of costs with nothing coming in indefinitely and hope the local hate dies down enough to be able to reopen sometime later this year? I mean sure people may move on in another 6 months but how much is rent and utilities costing plus loans on a location that's not making a penny. The location is approx 3000 sqft and the rate in that shopping center is roughly $18 sqft/yr so that's $4500 a month in costs in just rent. So if they're not opening until April that's $10k in rent not counting utilities, insurance, etc, pest control etc. And if it's longer than that which is the implication with no actual date now you're looking $15-20k for nothing. Or more. And that's not counting any loans taken to do the buyout and rebrand to begin with that are now due. How many tens of thousands are going to be sunk into this location for it to sit and do nothing? Given the ineptitude of the people in charge can you even think they're capable at this point in being able to spin this story and get the locals and regulars to want to come back? Or is the company just going to burn money on yet another location that they can't turn a profit on or figure out how to properly run?
You created this profile yesterday...lol
Weak management has never had any foresight. They wing everything they do and they make crappy decision after crappy decision. They are completely incompetent and cannot follow through on ANYTHING they claim and are the worst management team ever. They have taken what could be a super successful company and turn it into an absolute sht show.
They are arrogant and do not know what the hell they are doing. They have no business plan and it’s clearly evident they are the wrong people to have in charge of this company. Intelligent business is hiring people to fill roles they are suited for. Ben and Roger are not in positions they are educated for or remotely decent at, and they are destroying and wasting opportunity year after year by their own stubborn ignorance. If Ben or Roger has a business degree, it must have come from a mail in cereal box top.
They are holding back growth by not hiring competent leadership. They are complete doinks! Nothing ever changes here like a dog chasing its tail. 1 step forward 4 steps backward.
“But but but you found us”
“We have more that 3 cafes now”
Fuggn stupidity that is completely not justifiable.
Closing doors as fast as the doinks open them!
“We are going to communicate now! We know we suck at it, but this time it’s different! We even wasted time starting a no reach new forum we no longer participate in! We are idiots!”
Can they even run a profitable operation at this point? It seems like they're pretty much losing money everywhere and don't have enough coming in to cover debts in several of these locations. And if they pull the same shit they just did with Virginia Beach in doing so they're gonna end up getting a lot more negative press than they are now. Virginia Beach is a shit show due to the absolute incompetence by Susan and others, I can't imagine they'll handle Tucson or Chicago any better. They've lost any local support in Virginia as it stands, I don't see them reopening successfully there. But the bills are still due at that site. How much more are they going to bleed and then hit national or international news doing the same at other locations?
It would be a good thing when VA Beach closes permanently
getting rid of a money losing pit is a good thing....
Maybe ChiTown is next? That kind of a site belongs at a place like DisneyWorld where they have 50,000 guests a day.
BenDodger should be focused on bringing the "strongest" performing sites and getting rid of the biggest money losing sites where they already know will NEVER be positive net profitable.
They should close down at least 1 of the 3 cafes in Toronto down - and "drive" the customers to the two other locations - to have greater demand than supply.
Being able to duplicate positive net profitability is the step towards franchising.
FUNN has very limited choices at this point, with the inability to raise cash via private warrants, inability to get loans due to bad credit...or issuing a billion common shares which will result in dilution of current pps.
There you go being all positive again lol
The brownshirt Clownshow won't be able to CONtrol this Tide once this hits independent gamer forums that they don't CONtrol.
Sending a saw and ordering cafe employees to cut into a wall is problematic for many reasons:
1 Most commercial leases do nott allow tenants to make structural modifications such as cutting into walls even if only drywall and nott studs without the landord's pre-approval.
2. Structural modifications done by unbonded non-professonals who are unfamiliar with the local building codes may violate the landord's building insurance policy.
3. It is nott a cafe employee's job to do construction work. If the firing was done even PART:LY because of staff failure to cut into a wall then they very well may have a wrongful termination claim.
The fired employees should collectively, as a group (so the economics might make sense for a contingent fee case), have their potential employment law claims evaluated by an employment law counsel - including but not limited to possible wrongful termination claims even if they all were "at will" employees.
I think it would be very much in their interest to do so. Often a first introductory meeting is free for a case evaluation.
Mar 16th was an impossible goal. Less than a month to hire completely new staff from top to bottom and reno the place? And now they're dealing with the fact that there's a hell of a lot of local pushback against the place. It aint dying down like Miss Management said it would. It's only growing bigger. There's multiple news articles about what happened, the fundraiser for the staff, it's hit tiktok, there's posts going to the other locations concerning the whole Virginia Beach debacle. Good luck to them ever having a successful reopen. Good riddance.
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Board Game Café
Snakes & Lattes is Canada’s premiere board game café. Enjoy healthy and comfort food, drinks and spirits, coffee and tea while playing games from their vast selection. The games are organized so you can quickly find your favorite or discover something new. Don’t know what to play or want a suggestion? Snakes & Lattes has game gurus at every location willing to help! Waiting lines are typical at each location and each is highly positively reviewed on social review sites. Snakes locations also have periodic exciting events like Game Designer nights for upcoming game creators to test out their creations with real game enthusiasts..
Corporate owned/Franchising/Joint ventures
There are currently 3 locations in Toronto, Canada and the FIRST location in the U.S.A. opened in Tempe, Arizona on October 12th, 2018, with their largest and most extravagant acquisition in Chicago as their SECOND U.S.A location. The company has created a Snakes & Lattes USA Expandion and Buildout (SLUEB) team for rapid expansion via corporate location funding and joint ventures across North America, with the ultimate goal of reaching Europe and Asia. The Expansion team is currently on tour with interested parties for corporate locations in major cities across the USA. They are in active negotiation with multiple interested parties and continue to receive high interest as awareness of the brand and expansion effort grows.
Game retailer
Snakes & Lattes sells games direct at each location and online. As a master distributor, Snakes & Lattes buys below wholesale; capturing a higher margin on sales.
Event planning
Snakes & Lattes flagship Midtown location is the alpha model which all franchises and joint ventures will be based. The 10,000 sq.ft. café offers event services for parties; both private and corporate. Snakes provides a unique and enjoyable experience: Supplying a variety of foods, beverage, and games. On site Game gurus will help ensure a maximum good time. More and more corporate and private events are discovering Snakes as a great place to hold their events! This is one of the many rapidly growing segments of the business. Snakes also has a ‘Snakes-On-The-Go’ experience, a mobile version where they will bring the Snakes experience to you.
Marketing
Snakes & Lattes has game launching services for up and coming game publishers. Snakes’ experienced Gurus provide critical feedback and test play. Snakes marketing services for potential new game publishers including decor, themed cocktails, pastries, drawings, sales displays, online videos in the same way Hollywood launches movies. This provides Snakes with a unique advantage in being able to secure exclusive distribution rights with game designers once the game is launch ready.
What sets Snakes and Lattes apart?
There are many game board cafes out there, and more popping up all the time. This is a good thing! Game Board Cafes (GBC) is a fledgling industry, and has many years of growth ahead of it. There will be many one-off cafes and just as there are coffee shops, there will be some great ones! However, there is only one Snakes & Lattes Game Board Café. There is only one GBC that is also a brand, where the café location is only one part in the entire supply chain.
Snakes and Lattes has everything: Design, Publishing, Distribution, Fulfillment, Online and Retail Sales, Casual Food and Entertainment and Event Services.
More information can be found at: www.snakesandlattes.com
History of Snakes & Lattes:
• Unique idea, strategy fuel game cafe's success
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The team of designers and installation technicians delivers cutting edge landscape designs.
The company is rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau since becoming a member in 2011.
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Specializing in stone and wood installations between $5,000 and $150,000 per project, Interloc-Kings Inc. has quickly become a top, high quality installation company of outdoor living areas.
Mr. Mortimer brought this company into the Amfil Tec. umbrella in 2013 and as a result, he became CEO of Amfil Tech. at that time.
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