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The Baldwin location is:
14607 Ramona Blvd. Suite C.
Baldwin Park, CA 91706....a former "Celebrity Gourmet Catering" location, corner of Ramona and Bogart. Google-Maps street viewable. Wood™
I'm all for the "love fest" guys, but does this mean that NO one will question the fact that the CEO of UPZS can just change the franchise fee, midterm? And for what? It's insane! I noticed that the Garland gang have ALL went private on the Myspace thing, and that the UPZS website no longer will show conference calls. Milwaukee is suing the Vowlers...etc...and if you type in "UPZS" on You Tube...the videos have been deleted by owner! What can be there to hide? Unless less than truthful statements by certain leaders were made? Hmmmmm Wood™
The original, 20-grand-fee web-site can be found here:http://www.uniquepizzaandsubs.com/FranchiseInfo.htm Wood™
Barbaro, maybe all is not lost here. If you go to the official company website, and click on Franchise info, you will notice that the initial franchise fee has gone from $20,000 ($17,500, if you commit to 115 stores) to $100,000! My jaw dropped, sure, when I first read it....but then I realized that by "raising the bar" so high...the company will attract the "high rollers" of the economy. Just as the marketing of the Pet Rock™ back in the '70's was a success story due to the mere cost/value strategy, UPZS is creating value by merely inflating the fee, thus making every present-day franchise owner feel as though they gained value! Only in America! Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Wood™
With all due respect to Grace Budzinski, there IS a message board in Google Finance, under the UPZS symbol, with a TOTAL of 6(six) comments. One comment I saw may be the mystery "lie", that Joan Vowler refers to. But it was someones opinion, based on their personal experience. http://tinyurl.com/67fahn Wood™
Try this: http://tinyurl.com/6drh78 Wood™
Oh Poor Joan! Since you are SOOOO busy jet-setting cross country, helping the latinos find food contracts, (which KILLS me, since the California Latino community KNOWS a hell of alot more about procuring FOOD, growing it and harvesting it, than ANY of us EVER will....) let me help you with Grace's little lie...Go to post #9845. Click on the Govt. provided link...type in Unique Pizza....I hope all is well with Jim's Jag. Wood™
I know, Garland Harris's school of cuisine management will be on the next DRMF, I mean to say the UPZS website....and they just keep running, and running, and running, like the bunny....Wood™
Thanks skunks for the correction:) In no way did I want to disrespect a fellow poster. We need to keep up on these real or not-real issues (upzs) And it's up to all of us to try to keep these people honest. (sigh....we try) Anyways....a little of what MAY have happened to the downtown Milwaukee store that I found...http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=743049&appSession=144112116012971
Steel, my comment, now deleted, was meant to be sarcastic. I meant it to be obvious. I know how frustrated you are. I am beyond frustrated. No one EVER graduated from Fountain Capital University, another farce attempt to glean authenticity for Garland Harris, at best. Of course I want my initial investment in UPZS of 10,000 dollars to break even, and if I was to sell my stock now...it would be giving away any legitimate gripes I have, which is ALL I have left to show for it all. Wood™ ( p.s.....I thought the term "dumb **s" was rather tame, and in the context of sarcasm, was better than using idiot, or dumb f**k....real fightin' words. IMHO...lol It was satire!)
(I know...the other companies, Dream Factories, the non-profit included, are either privately held, and/or WERE confusing for Wood™, and his due diligence,and were more laborious than needed.) Someone should WARN the newbies of that situation, though...Some websites use the web-crawler for info...and it doesn't play out right. Some would call it out-right fraud.Wood™
Hey Midwest, they HAVE admitted mistakes from the past...but I am a "once shot, twice shy" kind of guy. I've been trying to figure out what is the truth about them. That is why I post things that I find...good or bad. If you say JV is GH'S b***h, than you got me! One needs the other! I am surprised that DRMF hasn't been sued yet for confusing them with the legitimate software company, or the legitimate charitable foundation who supplies comfort to little children in need. Wood™
Appologies to any REAL folks out there, Wood™
(I couldn't help that I ran into this, during today's due diligence)....It speaks for itself....http://tinyurl.com/5he6p7 Wood™
"When they said they were going to open something like 122 stores in 12 months in 2007 I said they would be lucky to open 20. Which incidentally they failed to come close to either number." Yea, but that was April Fools stage ONE, don't forget. They were just kidding. Just getting ready. Testing the waters... Heck, I zabasearched (www.zabasearch.com) the name Cardenas, Patricia and Jesus, in LaPuenta, CA. I found Patricia and I found Jesus....but they don't share any addresses-past or present. A meat market owner, and a dentist. None who would claim that their lives were saved by, sorry Lord..., GH! Wood™ (If they do exist together, the Cardenas, they sure kept an under-the-radar existence.)
"I am so excited that we will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to better our family and thanks to the Dram Factory and UPZS, we will have our dream come true...." I like the typo..."Dram Factory". In the GH spirit of creating "NEW" words, like the combining of two familiar ones into "Troption", one might think that Scam and Dream have been appropriately combined! ("Scream" could also have foot the bill. LOL)Yours Uncompensatedly, Wood™
Where is everybody? Anybody home? No trades today? Is this why there is absolutely NO market activity????:
CEO VOWLER Registers 8,880,054 Of UNIQUE PIZZA & SUBS CORP >UPZS
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
SOURCE: Form 144
ISSUER: UNIQUE PIZZA & SUBS CORP
SYMBOL: UPZS
FILER: VOWLER JAMES C
TITLE: Chief Executive Officer
BROKER: EMPIRE FINANCIAL GROUP INC
RESTRICTED SHARES TO SELL: 8,880,054 DATE REGISTERED: 4/22/2008
APPROXIMATE DATE OF SALE: N/A
The Form 144 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to
reflect the intention of any holder of restricted stock to sell those
shares. After the 144 is mailed to the S.E.C., the filer is permitted
to sell the shares, or any fraction of them, within 90 days.
Form 144 Data Source: The Washington Service
(info@washingtonservice.com) Wood™
Better yet, Garland, ME-(Wood™), as an un-solicited member of your virtual office....I could use some REAL compensation. As an upstanding businessman, I know you want to reward me. How 'bout this?.... Deposit 34,000 shares of UPZS into my Scottrade account, a measly value of @ 200 bucks. My office is at home, and I don't have the distractions of a lawyers office!; So more REAL ideas can be thought of for the future! I'll call your # to make the transfer arraignments...(oops, I didn't want to scare you,.. I mean arrangements) ... just after you have the Woodman answer to this post with an encouraging and grateful comment. Wood™...(In advance, thanks)
I assume the mobile units need water. I assume they need to be hooked up to a water source. I assume the best water source would be from a fire hydrant. I assume the water must be metered, in order to be legal. Garland, today is your lucky day! (you can now nominate Wood™ for "Hall of Fame" status, as I will save you months of you going in circles with those pesky "permits") Here is YOUR gift:http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/water/downloads/firehydrantpermit.pdf
There is no free lunch. The SBA (small business admin.), will only guarantee loans through it's local bank membership. Anyways, it appears that JV's dumping of stock expires tomorrow, the 22nd. He filed SEC form 144, "intent to dump another 8.8 million shares", for a 90 day period, beginning April 22nd. He has done this through a discount securities firm based in Longwood, Florida named Empire Financial Group. Wood™
So what's the REAL plan? Each Latino family will open ONE day a month?. At a yet-to-be-determined mobile drop-off? And to be advertised on a myspace account? sheesh Sounds like Garland found some minority-based grant program, sponsored by the Small Business Administration. And for some "substantially inflated fee", Garland and company will fill out all the necessary paperwork. Just bring in your SS number, and watch that "Dream" come true! Wood™
I truly believe the "posted" facts were in the "for example", category. But, by all means, I am disappointed in the residual, "We have the ozone sanitized facts" ...(non-existent) and the "fluff our imaginary feathers" approach. Wood..(trade mark) l would be true to investors, as I would be true to myself. THEN, I could have the nerve to ask for help.
Due Diligence...http://tinyurl.com/5jux9j... Wood™
Food for thought...What happened to the Budzinski's...the Master Franchizees of Wisconsin? The famous Summerfest, in Milwaukee, would have re-energised the franchise idea... if only they would have quickly MOBILIZED, and contacted JV, GH etc....and spun into action! And gave out free pizza samples to everyone!...just a rambling thought...and if they were serious about this "company", and expansion....now THAT....THERE..... is where I would want my investment going...THAT IS WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE FIRST PLACE! Wood™
Well it keeps SOME $ in JV'S pocket to live on, instead of him dumping massive shares and diluting OUR stock. I just don't like the idea of phase, whatever number, being run by the " 1/7th a week group of people" to be the guides to OUR future! And WHY is Henderson, NV., NOT being promoted? I definitely WILL be seeing a LAWYER on this one, if this crap continues.....One that takes commissions only from winning.....lol..Wood™
Thanks skunks, it works, and I just got home, and I see there are ALOT of posts....hope no-one deletes them .....yet...Wood™
PA, the link for the upzs website, upstairs in the I-Box, no longer works for me. It may be because I use Mozilla Firefox? I don't know. By the way, Yellow Pages dot com, lists the Nevada store...according to this link:http://tinyurl.com/5em4ps Wood™
The last question was addressed to you, PA, I know...but may I offer pizzabuster1 an obvious answer? PA stands for Pennsylvania, where Pittsburgh is located. UPZS is originally based from there. So we can assume that PA has taken the job as moderator, out of genuine interest, about a company based in his own back yard. And since the "Company" went totally non-land-based- specific, portable, so-to-speak, we don't know where they are! They might be just a spark in somebody's flux-capacitor, with the space-time continuim in jeopardy! Garland's Great-Great-Great grandchildren are now in danger,... of Troption Madness. Maybe...lol...Wood™
I enjoyed following Midwest's comments. But we all have to face reality. The "conjoined twins" operation will not be successful, unless skilled, free, volunteer surgeons are available. Won't happen. I suggest that Garland join a readily available company, such as Primerica, who will get him a securties license. I know, they sell term insurance and mutual funds, but they are legit. Citigroup owns them. And Garland can at least upgrade himself, and JV should follow....Wood™
Nevermind...."The Woodman", suffices...lol Wood..(the original, soon to be trademarked)
Oh, yea, and what the heck does THWDMN stand for? My imagination is not as warped as I thought it could be. I can't come up with a probable solution, and I love puzzles. Wood
I appoligize to PA for my last post. It was petty nit-picking. But I still have a burr up my ***. Who will stop these business *-holes from continually going in reverse, such as the Austin creeps? I swear their next move would be to create another shell company called HELP.PK...Here Everything Looks Promising...shoot, I just gave them an idea! My bad...the REAL Wood
I sometimes refer to the "American Bulls" website, for grins. But if you click on it now, they have given UPZS a clean slate, and make it look like the stock of a lifetime! I should have "freeze framed" the earlier versions of that site, cause, earlier, you could have turned 100 dollars into 26 bucks, in no time. Now it's 100 bucks into almost 800! (in the recent .002 dumping to the "whateverland ") Garland's prayers be answered! Wood
They will NEVER let the stocks dissappear. That is what JV lives on: share dumping. And speaking of dire straights....I wonder if GH read this? (He certainly resembles this guy! lol):http://tinyurl.com/5jc5nc
Good job, also, Peavy. Let me add some more tangled webs...If you listen to the archived conference calls, the last two are not there... But the May 17 one is still there. (not for long, after they read this post,lol) Garland claims his DRMF stock price is 0.16. When in fact is has been at .0001 since they liquidated it around April 8th. It never rose above or below 0.14. prior to that date. It was their own tax shelter, as not one person, except them, ever bought into it. The confidence game, or con, was in full swing! He even proposed that the store in Austin,(remember the steel stud photos) just needed minor modifications to open, yet later in the same call, the store is to be abandoned altogether. The man talks with forked tongue! Kemosabe! Wood
FRANCISE OWNERS THEMSELVES, can't even get the Vowlers on the horn, much less our uninformed, small, yet cozy group of honest chatters. When they don't or REFUSE to file real SEC Financial statements (after promising to..), we dig up info for ourselves. And if we dig up something they tried to bury, so be it. I am not ashamed. You either are new here, or as some may have implied, you seem to be real cozy with the Harris's, Ellinsons, or the Vowlers. And you don't know what the financials are either, cause JV certainly has lost track. I'll try to not make this personal, as Skunks pointed out, this is not a forum to bash each other. I just wonder who is behind this website..http://tinyurl.com/3we9xa , cause there were originally six votes, all calling BV the 'CEO of the year'. Now there are seven. WOOD-Digger
You blew it OrionCEV; I was just about to announce my take-over bid of UPZS! My lawyers are putting together the offering as we speak. They just needed one more thing...any semblance of a particular value, in order to start the buy-out offer. We know they have (had?) a used computer...a carton of sample boxes, and some key-chains. Esquire-Wood
I found a website run by some unpaid "market analysts", based in SOFIA, Bulgaria. They seem to know an unusually high amount of info about UPZS, strangely. Check it out! (and don't forget to vote!) Wood http://tinyurl.com/3we9xa
Dicky, they want you to pay $250. You are correct, sir! http://tinyurl.com/3hfvt5 (and they want CASH,(no personal checks)... not unlike the Nigerian 419 scammers. They don't show faith in YOU, than WHY on earth should you show faith in THEM?
Johnzee, if you are referring to the "Stage One" PR, it was dated 2007. Over a year ago. The reference to Stage Two, IMHO, was a parody, resulting from Penguin-induced giddyness. lol Wood