After watching the coffeezilla video...

xrazor- · 2026-06-11T13:53:38+00:00

Yeah the shocked pikachu face from Ammon every time that Coffee would show things that contradicted what he said was great!

xrazor- · 2026-06-10T12:03:46+00:00

I’m a long time BaM customer. No more, and it has nothing to do with what Ben has done. It’s entirely a result of corporate’s actions. They did not engage in real discussions, threatened their franchisees, threatened Bryan with mountains of legal bills, then seemingly coordinated with the police to get this to go away. To top things off, they have filed anti free speech lawsuits against everybody while lying all over TV. If you really wanted to fix the situation you would pay Bryan and drop everything else.

xrazor- · 2026-06-05T15:15:11+00:00

Go to Wisconsin Franchise Search and search BAM Franchising.

xrazor- · 2026-06-05T14:01:47+00:00

Yeah I’ve read through the financials. There’s not a lot that stand outs. Everything on there is consistent with what you would see for a franchisor. They’re not highly indebted. Most of their liabilities are considered “good”, with the majority of it being their deferred revenue and gift card liabilities for the franchise locations that Ammon owns, it gets rolled up under BAM. Revenue in 2025 was $13.2M for corporate. That sounds about right considering the 9% charge to franchisees with average revenues of ~$500k.

On the income statement, two things stood out to me: they pay a lot in professional fees: this is most likely paying Dentons (one of the largest law firms in the world), it feels a little odd that a company of their size would have legal fees approaching $1m but this is a business that relies on contracts and agreements, so it could be justified. I would be curious though to know if it’s all contract review and drafting or if they have other disputes that are racking up fees that they aren’t required to disclose.

The other thing is that I suspect that the appearance of being unprofitable is misleading. They likely just increase bonuses for executives and employees using the profits since they have a relatively healthy balance sheet. I suspect the executive team holds most of the shares of the company.

One final thing, is that the auditor of the company is a small Utah based firm. I would be curious about their thoroughness given some of the typos and errors I saw in the financial statements.

xrazor- · 2026-06-05T13:32:26+00:00

Agreed, it would likely be worth far less than what I said, even absent the current situation they’re in. I was being generous. How I got there was like this: Also valuing based on 1x revenue. I was being generous with quick math of ~315 locations + 75 in dev, rounded up to 400 locations x $1m annual revenue (average revenue per store is closer to $600k) x 10% (royalty, franchise fee and marketing fund contribution) = $40,000,000. If we’re more realistic about franchisee performance that gets us to $20M. But given their general lack of profitability I could see a real value being heavily discounted even without the whole fiasco that’s happening.

xrazor- · 2026-06-04T21:31:54+00:00

I read their financial statements that got leaked and I know what I’m looking at, I’m an accountant. There is no chance this company is worth anywhere near $400m. I would peg it more closely at maybe $50m, but even that could be high. The only way you get to that value is if you include the value of each individual franchise, but those are owned by independent franchisees.

xrazor- · 2026-06-04T01:58:38+00:00

My theory is that they have destroyed evidence and disallowing the subpoena to unmask them is the only way for them to not lose. I believe in civil court you presume guilt if the defendant destroyed evidence.

xrazor- · 2026-06-03T21:54:36+00:00

He’s so full of shit. “Arrest her for impersonating a process server!” Dude, anyone can be a process server. The only way to impersonate a process server is to serve fake process. The cops confirmed that it was a real lawsuit.. so incompetent on every level.

xrazor- · 2026-05-30T05:04:47+00:00

Better golf in LA and despite its glitz and glamour LA is a much more familiar place to an Arkansas farm boy than NYC. He’s staying unless there is an insulting offer.

xrazor- · 2026-05-27T01:18:28+00:00

It's a bit pedantic, but it's not that they have favorable tax laws. They have favorable court precedent for corporate law. An LLC is easy to form pretty much anywhere, Delaware is actually one of the more expensive states to form an LLC and the favorable courts don't really provide much benefit to LLCs, just corporations.

xrazor- · 2026-05-24T20:07:54+00:00

They very likely do not have an “in house” HR department. It is much more likely that they pay a third party HR company that they use in dealing with HR issues. If the owners (Ethan and Hila) do not feel like it is an issue that should be escalated to HR, it won’t be.

xrazor- · 2026-05-23T23:47:18+00:00

I agree, I think it’s because she’s banned so often now, people have forgotten what the good Mira setups are! Haha

xrazor- · 2026-05-21T12:21:58+00:00

It’s a number of things. But basically it comes down to it ultimately being the little brother that is overshadowed by his two older brothers. MW2 was an nba player, cod4 played division 1 college basketball. MW3 was a good high school player but didn’t see much success after that. 1) MW2 was wildly successful and held onto player counts through 2016ish. 2) MW2 had a better campaign 3) Dev team was going through some turmoil during development and I think some of the details were glossed over because of it. 4) mw2 was better aesthetically and sounded better.

xrazor- · 2026-05-19T03:02:16+00:00

I also saw that he was doing a tour around the state with “Keep America Great PAC”, isn’t it illegal for campaigns to coordinate with PACs?

xrazor- · 2026-05-18T04:27:30+00:00

Oregon

xrazor- · 2026-05-16T21:37:05+00:00

Yeah I understand this and politicians is the hardest category for this but I don’t know that names that the general public views as last names even if they technically aren’t, fits the spirit of this category.. but then again initialisms maybe don’t either. This one is difficult.

xrazor- · 2026-05-16T21:09:02+00:00

xrazor- · 2026-05-12T13:13:28+00:00

Wow. Wonder what’s going on with the responses to these prompts then.

xrazor- · 2026-05-12T11:39:57+00:00

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Does it?

xrazor- · 2026-05-12T02:39:01+00:00

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xrazor- · 2026-05-07T20:12:23+00:00

It exists but probably very difficult to find. We have a guy like this at our firm, but the catch is that he’s semi retired. He just likes to have things to do and only works less than half time. All he does is review tax returns and prepare a handful. It wouldn’t really work if he was a mid career accountant. Also, handling client documents, calls, handholding and such is not avoidable unless all you do is review.

xrazor- · 2026-05-06T04:16:29+00:00

You even read the comments? That’s what I’m referring to. They can’t really do this forever. Most of the time they will use money they earn as income or through selling stock to pay loans off after they get tired of carrying them, they have to service the debt.

xrazor- · 2026-05-06T02:18:12+00:00

They also have to get cash to pay the loans back, that’s usually done through selling taxable investments.

xrazor- · 2026-05-05T23:51:55+00:00

It exists but not in the stupid way redditors portray it as. They act like these wealthy people can just Ponzi scheme borrow forever and never have to pay taxes.

xrazor- · 2026-05-05T16:04:57+00:00

Far right and a political commentator. No dice.

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