Coming soon: A new CC’s Coffee House location will open at 3857 La. 1 South in Port Allen. A soft opening event will be held from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The location is part of CC’s Coffee House licensing expansion program nationwide, a news release says. The new location will have a drive-thru and outside patio and will showcase CC’s updated architecture. “In 2017, CC’s continues to see unprecedented growth and expansion led by sophisticated operators and passionate franchisees,” says Mark Verges, who leads business development and licensed operations for CC’s Coffee House’s corporate office.
Self-serve: Lafayette-based ARC Group today announced that it will acquire self-serve yogurt franchise Yobe Frozen Yogurt for $1.4 million, along with a $900,000 earn-out payment tied to Yobe’s performance during the first two years post-closing. According to a news release, the acquisition is expected to close within the next 90 days and will be funded through a combination of cash and debt. Closing is contingent upon the execution of a definitive purchase agreement and the acquisition of suitable financing by ARC Group, which owns and operates the Dick’s Wings & Grill concept and co-owns the company that runs Wing Nutz. Yobe has 34 locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and New Jersey. Read more.
For the record: A lawsuit is slamming Louisiana’s indigent defender system, describing defendants waiting months in jail to see their lawyers, and lawyers who are woefully overworked. The Associated Press reports the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP and Jones Walker LLP filed the lawsuit today on behalf of 13 defendants currently in jail. They are suing Gov. John Bel Edwards, members of the Louisiana Public Defender Board and the state’s chief public defender. The lawsuit claims public defenders are regularly carrying two to five times the recommended caseloads and money for public defense is inadequate and unreliable. They want a monitor to supervise the public defense system, and are asking for an injunction barring the state from maintaining a public defense system that fails to give defendants “constitutionally adequate representation.”
