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Complaint Review: Philly's Own Soft Pretzel Bakery Paul Eckert, Bruce Chamberlain - Doylestown Pennsylvania

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  • Philly's Own Soft Pretzel Bakery Paul Eckert, Bruce Chamberlain 202 Farm Lane Doylestown, Pennsylvania U.S.A.

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Paul Eckert and Bruce Chamberlin are now selling "Philly's Own Soft Pretzel Bakery " franchises that doesn't actually exist. They are paying money to an old and reputable soft pretzel bakery (Philly's Traditional Soft Pretzel Bakery on County Line Road in Hatboro, PA) to carry their (Philly's Own) name and signs. Then they tell the franchisee candidates that these folks are their "actual" franchisees. They even take the franchisee candidates to this location (County Line Road in Hatboro, PA).

These guys are a trip! They tell the poor franchisee candidates that the food cost and labor cost is nect to nothing and they will make hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales as soon as they open. They also tell the candidates that they have "100 years" of experience in soft pretzel business and 30 years experience in restaurant and food business. In reality they don't know the first thing about the pretzels or the pretzel business. All they have is a couple crappy recipe and training manual that one of their ex employees "copied" from Auntie Anne's recipes and training manual (which happens to be this employee's previous employer).
They also tell people that Paul Eckert and Bruce Chamberlin have more than "30 years of experience in franchising".

The truth is that they were fired from every single job that they had in franchiing industry. Please see the links provided below to see how they were fired and taken to court by their previous employers sych as "United Check Cashing" and "Cash Now" etc.
These people are real bad news. Paul Eckert is a professional con man and his "background" is in "muffler" business and not franchising as he is trying to market himself.

These people don't even know how much a 50 lbs bag of flour cost. Too much for "industry experience". But they know how to lie people about the food cost, labort cost etc. They also tell people that they are "well funded". In reality they couldnt even pay the rent for the office of Philly's Own Soft Pretzel Bakery and are now running that business by using Family Financial Centers' (their other business) phones and physical address. They just signed up a poor guy as their first franchisee and are using his money to keep the company alive. Who knows when they will be able to open that franchisee's bakery. If they ever will that is. They very well know that the location that they found is going to be really bad for this guy's business. But they don't care about that either.

You can go on and on all day about these people. Everything they did and still do is shady. It's amazing to see how they get away with it. Of course there is no mention of their adventures in the franchise world in their UFOC documents for Family Financial Centers or Philly's Own Soft PRetzel Bakery. What a surprise!
Anybody who sign up with these con artists are destined to lose their house, savings and everything else.

Here are the links for Paul Eckert and Bruce Chamberlain's other scams and details and documents of how they were FIRED from United Check Cashing and Cash Now and legal documentation.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/150/RipOff0150746.htm

http://cashnow.com/usaoffice/eckert.pdf

http://cashnow.com/usaoffice/IMPORTANTANNOUNCEMENT.pdf

http://cashnow.com/usaoffice/pauleckert.pdf


You are warned! Be careful with your hard earned money. Good luck!

Revealer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.

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#5 General Comment

He has been stopping at my home!

AUTHOR: ConcernedNeighborhood - (USA)

POSTED: Monday, January 09, 2017

Paul Eckert has been coming to my home claiming to be a Jehovah Witness! A little bit ago, he started stopping by my home leaving pamphlets. I got curious and decided to do a quick Google search, “Paul Eckert Doylestown”, I could not believe what I saw!

This man has been coming to my home! I contacted our neighborhood community to let them know. They agree that individuals like this should not be knocking on the doors of our neighbors. We are looking into the possibility of putting signs up in our community along with contacting our Township to see what rights we have to hopefully stop people with this type of background from knocking on our doors. We have a lot of kids in our neighborhood! We are concerned about ours and their safety.

We are going to be writing letters to their local church’s to see if he actually is a member or just claiming to be one.

If he comes to my door again, we will be contacting the local officials!

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#4 UPDATE EX-employee responds

Overtime

AUTHOR: Joe Johnson - (United States of America)

POSTED: Tuesday, November 09, 2010

When overtime is paid there they don't take out taxes. This caused me problems when tax filing time came due. I was also shorted 2 hours pay.

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#3 Author of original report

Why not give your "references" here???? And what is "not true" about this "fine company"?

AUTHOR: Revealer - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Sunday, April 06, 2008

"Rebuttal"???? "This information is fiction" ???? Is Paul Eckert joking again???


Why don't you say what you have to say here. Okay then ... Since you won't be telling any truth as usual, let me start asking questions and you answer them here ... Then let's decide whether "This information is fiction" as you said or not ...

1. Was Paul Eckert FIRED from United Check Cashing or not? Did he or did he not violate the "non-compete" after the fact he was given money to "go away"?

Below is the link for the letter from United Check Cashing's attorney Steven S. Raab of Philadelphia, PA.

http://cashnow.com/usaoffice/pauleckert.pdf

Any "rebuttal" for this? Post them here if you have anything concrete other than your usual baloney that proves otherwise.

2. After trying to take advantage of the fact that Cash Now was based out of Canada (so these geniuses thought the law couldn't touch them here in the USA) and attempted to steal Cash Now's clients through their "new" franchise company "Neighborhood Financial Centers" that they formed unbeknownst to Cash Now were Paul Eckert and Bruce Chamberlain terminated immediately or not?

Below is the link for Cash Now's announcement of "immediate termination" of Paul Eckert (this company (Cash Now) was almost destroyed after this incident and probably is out of business now)

http://cashnow.com/usaoffice/IMPORTANTANNOUNCEMENT.pdf

Any "rebuttal" for this? Post them here if you have anything concrete other than your usual baloney that proves otherwise.

3. For the same reasons above were Paul Eckert and Bruce Chamberlin sued by their employer (CashNow) for "injunctive relief, tresspass, misapropriation and misuse of trade secrets, conversion of of confidential business information, breach of duty of loyalty, unfair competition, civil conspiracy, tortious interference with contractual relations ..." or not ???

Here is the link for the complaint filed by Cash Now's attorney Craig A. Styer of Exton, PA

http://cashnow.com/usaoffice/eckert.pdf

Any "rebuttal"? Post them here if you have anything concrete other than your usual baloney that proves otherwise.

4. Did Paul Eckert take the initial franchisee fee from an Israeli businessman and nevr actually opened his store? What happened to that guy's money? Was it returned to him? Or what .....

Any "rebuttal"? Post them here if you have anything concrete other than your usual baloney that proves otherwise.

5. Did Paul Eckert take the initial franchisee fee (once again ) for "area developer" rights from "Mike from MN" ,which according to Eckert doesn't even exist, and never actually opened his stores or not? What happened to that guy's money? Was it returned to him? Or used for daughter's wedding or what???

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/150/RipOff0150746.htm

Any "rebuttal"? Post them here if you have anything concrete other than your usual baloney that proves otherwise.

6. What is Paul Eckert and his staff's "30 years experience in franchising experience" ???? And who should be called for reference? United check cashing that fired them or cash Now also fired on the spot and sued them??? What companies are your "references" that you are talking about here in this link

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/150/RipOff0150746.htm

Would you care to post those "references" that you have here so everybody can see?

7. Let's talk about "Philly's Own Soft Pretzel Bakery" ... What industry experience does your staff actually have in pretzels bakeries, bakeries general etc. ??? What is it that you know so much about pretzel baking that people have to pay money for to become your franchisee????

8. Did Paul Eckert pay for the "entire" remodelling of the "Traditional Soft Pretzel Bakery" on County line Road and Jacksonville in Hatboro, PA to "make it look" like a Philly's Own Soft Pretzel Bakery or not?


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8. Did Paul Eckert (and still is) pay the owners of the "Traditional Soft Pretzel Bakery" on County Line Road and Jacksonville in Hatboro, PA to sign up as a "special franchisee" or not? Later did he tell all the franchisee candidates that "this family with 100 years of pretzel business" sign up as a "regular" franchisee with the Philly's Own Soft Pretzel Bakery meaning they would pay Philly's Own (not the other way) for the "provilege" of being their franchisee or not?

So what is this franchisee's real position? Is Paul Eckert paying them so he can con the franchise candidates by using this store as a "front" and tell them that a family with 100 years in this business became their franchisee because they were so impressed with this company's vision, expertise etc. or not?? That's very amusing actually.

Once again any "rebuttal" for this?

This list would go on and on all day... Looking forward to seeing your "rebuttals" and "references". After that we can move on to talking about other cons of Paul Eckert.

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#2 UPDATE Employee

The Truth

AUTHOR: The Truth - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Thursday, April 03, 2008

The information on this report is false .Please contact our offices and we will be happy to provide you with contact information for references for this fine franchise company.

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#1 Author of original report

Edited: "Bruce Chamberlin" not Chamberlain.

AUTHOR: Revealer - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Edited: "Bruce Chamberlin" not Chamberlain.

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