Private label sales have doubled each year since 1994. Bunz is paid 6% royalty on weekly sales by franchisees.
With the annual meeting behind, and no more of an explanation than, "I don't know why C&L resigned." we look to quarterly earning for relief. Charts and graph aplenty; looked good. Number galore, anyone would adore.
Schlotzsky's has no financial exposure in the Beijing store, the franchisee is a state owned business. Wooley joked that it was the only franchise that could print money.
FATHER, SON, & GRAVY LADLE
>
>An elderly man invited his son over for dinner. During the meal, the
>young man couldn't help noticing how attractive and shapely the
>housekeeper was. Over the course of the evening, he started to wonder if there was more between the elderly man and the housekeeper than met the eye.
>
>Reading the young man's thoughts, the elderly man volunteered "I know
>what you must be thinking, but I assure you my relationship with my
>housekeeper is purely professional."
>
>About a week later the housekeeper came to the elderly man and said
>"Sir, ever since your son came to dinner, I've been unable to
>find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose he took it do you?" The man said, "Well I doubt it, but I will write him a letter just to be sure."
>
>So he sat down and wrote:
>"Dear Son,
>I'm not saying that you DID take a gravy ladle from my house, and I'm
>not saying that you DID NOT take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains
>that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner."
>
>Several days later the elderly man received a letter from his son which
>read:
>"Dear Father,
>I'm not saying that you DO sleep with your young housekeeper, and I'm
>not saying that you DO NOT sleep with your housekeeper. But the fact
>remains that if you were sleeping in your own bed you would have found the gravy ladle by now." |
