Mad Butcher liquidator on ridiculous crusade, claims owner

Veritas chairman Tim Cook, however, on Tuesday detailed what he called the facts of the Mangere liquidation and his frustration with Jollands.

He said he could not comment on Jollands' claim the Mangere store had begun losing money in the years prior to its sale, other than that Leitch had a "very successful business" there.

But he ran through a series of phone calls, meetings and other dealings with Jollands, where the franchisor wanted to find a workable solution for the store's owner rather than put it in liquidation.

Other stores, such as one in Rotorua, had become one of its big successes after a "motivated" operator took it over using exactly the same business model.

Cook said they offered "an enormous amount of free help" to turn around the Mangere store, including bringing in a proven operator and free advertising.

The franchisee had admitted in those meetings the failure was his fault, and was a minority shareholder and manager before buying the store outright, Cook said.

But the next thing Cook knew, the store had gone into liquidation