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The franchisee that owns all 90 Waffle House restaurants in Central Florida has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy largely to stop the parent company from kicking it out of the 1,600-store system. Northlake Foods Inc., which is controlled by W.B. Johnson, an Atlanta entrepreneur, filed for the bankruptcy court protection in September. By then, Johnson and his partners in the franchisee group had been fighting one another in court for more than a year.
Waffle House Inc., the Norcross, Ga., company that owns the chain and the rest of the Florida Waffle Houses from Tallahassee across the Panhandle, argues that Northlake’s franchised stores would be profitable had it not been for the way Johnson and his partners split up their personal ownership of assets to settle their own differences.
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