Fat Pat and H Lyons were best mates. Fat Pat set him up with one of the first franchises on the Ennis Road. Pat owns the building and your man rents it from him.
Because it was one of the early franchises FP was obliged to pay for restaurant renovations every ten years or something. Thatās something not in the new agreements. Anyway FP refused to pay for them, I presume there was something simmering away to lead to that, but it all kicked off then. Court cases etc.
Anyway Mr Hungry told him to go fuck himself and set up his own place. It was quiet enough for a while then. Iād say FP thought heād make a bollox of it, but it seems to be going well enough. The Ennis Road site would have been a massive earner for Supermacs, but it must be a drop in the Ocean overall for the bollox. The amount of time he must have spent on it. Pure bitterness
He comes out of it very poorly. I suppose you donāt get to be that rich without being a bit of a cunt. Especially not in fast food
Solid advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in the final 2 sentences.
So Lyons isnāt running a Supermacs enterprise but his own show out of a premises heās leasing from Fat Pat that was originally a Lyons operated Supermacsā¦I think thatās it. Lyons seems a bit of a cunt himself - Pat has a battle on his hands here.
Like all these things, thereās two of them in it. Lyons himself would have plenty money from running the couple of franchises the last 30 plus years. But a small fortune compared to the big man