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From: Throstle
Date: 18/10/98
Franchisees were due to take over one vacant catering outlet within the University. This would have had the advantage of providing decent evening meals within the University, with any potential losses being borne by the franchisees. The only expense that would have been incurred by the University would have been £1500 on an extraction system required by Health and Safety regulations. However, the University's Head of Finance decided only on the day that the outlet was due to open that the University could not afford this expenditure in the current financial climate. He had had several weeks to make this decision known. The franchisees fled, not wanting anything more to do with such an amateurish set-up.
From: Robin Leslie (PhD-LSE)
Date: 04 Mar 2003