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To: Spark who wrote (13518)	5/9/2000 11:18:00 AM
From: Spark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19297

NUZA..now I know why the willy...from a post on RB... I spoke with Mr. Dan Rouse, President and CEO of NUZA, at great length today (after playing a bit of ?phone tag? for a few days), and found him to be a knowledgeable and affable man, who in my opinion, has solid plans for where this company is going. All of the below comments are per Mr. Rouse, based on my conversation with him today. Mr Rouse advised me that magicpizza.net is very close to reaching it?s goals. He hopes the new website will be online and ready for orders, by May 15th, 2000, and per Mr. Rouse, will begin to advertise NU Magic Pizza via Cable TV ads in California. pizzanumeruno.com will also be brought up during this time. Mr. Rouse also advised, that they are ahead of schedule on the 2 new stores, and that they hope to be opening them in the next few weeks. The new store that Mr. Rouse feels hold the most promise, is the store in North Ridge, California. We also discussed the need for NUZA to issue PR?s, and Mr. Rouse seemed to agree with me. Mr. Rouse advised they had of late, been concentrating in turning the company around, thus had not been issuing much in the way of PR?s. I got the feeling however, that this, the PR situation, is going to be changing (for the better) in the near future, but that is only my opinion. Mr. Rouse also advised me that currently they have 32 Franchisee?s in California, and 14 to 15 Franchisees? overseas. Mr. Rouse is not however, all the confident about the viability of the Franchisee in Korea, which is why he gave the figure of 14 to 15 overseas, instead of just saying they had 15 overseas Franchisee?s. Mr. Rouse advised me that in the USA, all of their current Franchisee?s are in California. This is due to the fact that they are in the process of trademarking the NU Magic Pizza in the USA. Currently NU Pizza is only trademarked in California, which places this limit on them, to be just in Califonia. He hopes that the upcoming changes and the new Trademark name of NU Magic Pizza, will open NUZA up for National Franchising marketing. Mr. Rouse advised that he has received requests to become Franchisee?s in other parts of the country, and he hopes this will resolved the issue, so they could sell Franchises to owners through out the USA. I asked if they had any plans to open company owned stores anytime soon. Mr. Rouse advised me that while NU Magic Pizza, might take an interest (part ownership that is) with a Franchisee in the future, they had no plans on having stores that would be solely owned by NU Magic Pizza itself. Should you wish to speak with Mr. Rouse yourself, you can do so in the same manor I did, via phone. Here is his phone number: 213-252-9991 x 25