Here's Why Wendy's Suing One of Its Biggest Franchisees Matters
In DepthLast month, the Wendy’s Co. filed a lawsuit against one of its largest franchises operators, DavCo Restaurants LLC, for failing to meet company directives both to update their point of sale systems and to remodel their restaurants. Here’s why that matters.
DavCo isn’t a small group: they’re Wendy’s fourth-largest franchisee, operating 152 locations in Maryland, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia.* Wendy’s has every right to sue over this; DavCo wasn’t getting its operations up to snuff in a way that Wendy’s (its effective parent company) was happy with, now the franchiser is trying to cut ties with the franchisee. Granted, part of the dispute is that Wendy’s wanted DavCo to update their POS systems to Aloha, which is kind of like “updating” to a Yugo Hatchback, but that’s beside the point.