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Complaint Review: Colby Fox - Tampa Florida

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  • Reported By: Kindly B — Tampa Florida USA
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  • Colby Fox 1100 N Florida Ave Tampa, Florida USA

Colby Fox Colby S Fox Cheated Lied Ripped Off Swindled Taken Advantage Of Tampa Florida

*UPDATE Employee: My 2 cents!

*REBUTTAL Individual responds: Two sides to every story

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Colby Fox is Tampa's top con artist. He boasts he owns businesses, nights clubs and restaurants. He hired me as a managing partner for a restaurant in Tampa. Hence the word partner, is why I put my blood, sweat and tears into this business. I worked for peanuts and he squeezed every ounce of creativity, origination and hard work out of me as these are the attributes he lacks most. Hard work is something he is very unfamiliar with. He promised me a world of opportunity with franchise dreams and more. After a year of myself putting forth all the hard work it takes to get a business up and running he fired me. I had a percentage of the company through many conversations along with everyone around us knowing our situation. After exclaiming you are unable to fire a partner he told me to prove it as we had nothing in writing. The truth is he has more money than me and will win in court hands down, as I could not economically fight the legal battle. I was lied to and taken advantage of put nicely. His entire entourage consists of sleazy convicted con artists. All I have to say is that if you are trying to deal with this guy be aware. He took advantage of me just as I have seen him to do so many others around him. If you enter in to a deal with him, he will attempt to positionhimself be able to control the situation and come out on top even if it takes delusion and lies and eliminating you. Ethics is not a principle he practices. He creates the illusion that he is a very nice and caring individual. Once you get comfortable with him you don't feel the need to spend the money to get everything in writing and approved with an attorney. My warning is to create an agreement and have it looked over my a professional no matter what it costs. If you are in a situation where he wants to partner with you, then you are at risk of being fully taken advantage of leaving you with nothing. 

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AUTHOR: Anonymous - (USA)

POSTED: Thursday, July 14, 2016

First off, let me make it clear I was in no way asked to add this comment. If that were the case MANY people would of responded MONTHS ago. Colby employs and or does business with hundreds of people and unless I am mistaken this is the only negative article on this site. I happened to stumble on this at random while trying to learn more about the industry I currently work in and upcoming changes. 

I found this vendictive personal attack on Colby surprising as well as disturbing.  Then I was very impressed when I read his response. He was factual and proffesional and did not deny there being a conflict with the person who wrote the complaint. I happen to work for Colby indirectly as a sub contractor in another one of his very well ran and successful businesses. A business that in fact keeps growing. Many similiar ones have failed in an industry as this thats become very competitive with never ending compliance changes.  I have NEVER met or had contact with him personally but have worked 3 years and never had an issue. The checks arrive from Florida to NY like clockwork when people working for similiar companies experience delays and chargebacks.  Colby is a young businessman with an enterpeneur mindset that spreads amongst several industries. There is an excellent morale and sense of teamwork amongst the regular office employees in the department I directly report to.  The few instances of people being replaced that I have encountered in 3 years was usually by fault or choices of their own. Most importantly, hard work and effort is always appreciated and no matter how stressful the day was I am always ready to start the adventure all over again the following day. 

 

Yes, there are TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY!  Keep up the good work Colby!  

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AUTHOR: Colby - (USA)

POSTED: Thursday, June 23, 2016

The issue with this report is a Board of Directors Fired Kip Byrne not myself. Why you ask because he lost money month after month and could not sustain the business. The restaurant group had to do multiple cash calls in the hundreds of thousands of dollar range to keep the business operational.  I agree that he did put blood, sweat and creativity in the project but we put millions of dollars in and if the business does not make money does any of it matter?

The board gave him 3 different opportunites over a 6 month timeframe to correct the issues and unfortnely he could not.  We did not want to run a restaurant we wanted him too, we loved kip he just couldnt get things running profitable.

Im not sure why Kip blames me for him getting fired but a group decided to fire him and it was the right decision based on the events taking place. What kip also does not tell you is he is still is an owner(thats right, crazy isnt it), he was only fired as the General Manager, we never took his ownership away.  We were very fair about it and it was just a business decision.

This story above as you can see has a lot of raw negative emtions of his own failures in it. Its easier to blame someone else, i get it. This is the True version of events and if anyone would like to see that he is still an owner feel free to contact me. I would be more than happy to prove we are fair and good partners to him still to this day.

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