What is going on.................




 I believe I am doing a public service by notifying the general public of the newest "scam" at SUBWAY HEADQUARTERS in Milford, CT..  Here's what they did to me:  I put a $30,000 deposit down on a Subway Restaurant franchise located on East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, NY. It was a successful franchise with over five years tenure.  The restaurant was bringing in over $300,000 per year in sales. The people who run Subway Restaurants, a private corporation called Doctor's Associates Inc. invited me to attend a two week long training seminar at their headquarters in Milford, CT.. I paid them $7,500 for this priviledge and the franchise transfer fee.  

After 8 days of training I had a 99 average in their course and had just graduated from the instore training program. It was a time to celebrate so I attended a cocktail party held at Subway Headquarters and I conversed and took photos with the guest of honor, Mr. Fred Deluca (CEO of DAI) and a lot of my training comrades from all over the world.  I wasn't drinking like most but was asked by some of my classmates how I had  acquired the funds necessary to buy my franchise.  I really didn't want to talk about my past work experience so I handed out a business card from my adult entertainment agency.  The card was not obscene nor did it have any advertisements of illegal acts or any nudity.  The party was rather boring and I left early so I could rest up for the next day's training schedule.

     The next morning I was promptly asked to leave class and go to the corporate security room where I was told that I was no longer eligible to be a Subway franchisee.  I was told that I was not what they were looking for and was ushered off corporate grounds and told never to return. On my way out I informed the people from Subway that they had no legal grounds for the dismissal and that I would report them.  I played my wild card and that was I have been a featured guest on many national talk shows like, "The O'Reilly Factor", "Hannitty and Colmes", "Judith Reagan Tonight", and Regis Philbin's show.  I told the Subway people that I would go on television and cry about their mistreatment if they didn't allow me back into their training program.  

     By the next day they discovered I wasn't lying about my media connections and decided that the prudent move for them to make was to acquiesce.  They told me that I could still be a franchisee if I could pass an open book final exam with an 80 score or above and if I would sign some agreement about conducting myself in what they considered a proper way as a Subway Franchisee.  I told them I would sign anything they wanted me to and that I was going to be a good franchisee and that my adult entertainment days were coming to an end.

     To make a long story short I studied the course material they gave me and passed the final exam with an 80 exactly.  I took the exam off corporate grounds as I was still not allowed to be seen there.  To be honest I missed a lot by being thrown out of the classroom program and I never really understood the complexity, or the conformity issues of running a successful franchise because I had no one to ask questions to.  I was basically fed to the wolves and my attorney later explained to me that this was a case of "FRAUD" on Subway's part because they never really intended for me to be a franchisee for long.  They wanted to get my money and that's all they wanted.  Here's how the con works:  Since I had no restaurant experience except the limited training I received during my aborted training seminar; I really didn't know such things as business slowed down in the northeast during the winter months because of decreased foot traffic due to the cold and the effect of the Holiday Season on a Subway Restaurant business.