They are mostly a Midwest/ Illinois and Wisconsin thing.
I gotta admit I was surprised by that. I didn’t know that owner directly, but did know, and was on a first name basis with a few individual store owners in the south Chicago area before I moved west. I never got the impression about the founder that anything like this was lurking.
Then again this was all a few years ago, and most of the stuff on the BGG thread seems pretty recent.
Sorry you had to deal with that. As someone in the midst of reading a franchise disclosure doc that’s 230 pages long, I’m guessing that getting out from under them wasn’t trivial.
Good luck @Vesper on the new branding and I hope you have lots of success! Maybe we’ll be in the market for a new game soon as we have a new board game table (still not assembled though). And we are still in the middle of Pandemic Season 0. Ok, it may be a little while but I will keep you in mind!
@Vesper I checked out the store page but when I entered my address (I’m in Vermont) it said delivery was unavailable to that location. Is your store just regional or can I order stuff from you?
Also let me know if you ever want any mascot art. Here’s a little mascot I did for my local school.
Shipping up here to Canada would be prohibitively expensive, but I’ll have to make a point of dropping in next time I’m in Denver (aka, my favorite US city)!
Just looking at that picture, I can feel the gravitational pull. I wouldn’t not be able to walk by the storefront without getting sucked into the front door.