They've always been "open to" franchising. But they couldn't because they could not present a business model that was profitable.
You can't franchise a business that isn't profitable. Do you guys not know this?
This means that an investor can make more money putting their investment in the bank, with almost zero risk, than investing in GIGL.
It's basic business 101. If they could have franchised before, they would have. They couldn't, then or now, so they didn't and they won't.
But I guess if you repeat it a bunch of times it changes all that, right? No.