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Profiled Company

Company Name: Spicy Pickle Franchising, Inc.
Symbol: SPKL
Pick Price: $0.69
Suggested Target: $2.00
Suggested Stop Loss: $0.90
Website: http://www.spicypickle.com/
Coverage Period: September 22, 2007 - September 22, 2008
Featured Newsletter: September 22, 2007 Edition

Quote Data : Spicy Pickle Franchising Inc (SPKL)

Last Trade: 0.8700
Last Size: 0
Trade Time: 00:00
Change: +0.0000 (+0.00%)
Prev Close: 0.8700
Open: 0.0000
Volume: 0
Bid: 0.0000
Ask: 0.0000
Bid x Ask Size: 0x0
Day's Range: 0.00 - 0.00
52wk Range: 0.48 - 2.02
P/E (ttm): N/A
EPS (ttm): -0.08
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Business Summary

Spicy Pickle Franchising, Inc. engages in the franchise and operation of Spicy Pickle restaurants primarily in the United States. Its Spicy Pickle restaurant is a fast-casual restaurant specializing in sandwiches, salads, soups, and soft drinks. As of March 31, 2007, the company had 28 franchisees. Spicy Pickle Franchising was founded in 1999. It was formerly known as Spicy Pickle Franchising, LLC and changed its name to Spicy Pickle Franchising, Inc. in 2006. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Latest Newsletter Editions

Tue, May 6, 2008 @ 01:05 pm
Pickle Opens #38- Texas Expansion Continues Despite the rather boring performance on the chart, Spicy Pickle has now gotten back on the new store opening bandwagon, and is announcing a second new store opening in as many weeks. Today, just after the market closed, SPKL announced its third Austin, Texas...
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 @ 01:04 pm
Spicy (OTC BB: SPKL) Hits Michigan Fresh off last week's first open forum conference call, Spicy Pickle is out with more substantive news. The stock has begun a rebound phase, but clearly is not ready to simply rocket up the charts. It's not that kind of market environment, so it's hardly surprising...
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 @ 01:04 pm
Pickle (OTC BB: SPKL) Delivers Surge In Same Store Sales Marc Geman, CEO of Spicy Pickle, will have something Spicy to discuss on today's conference call, which probably will have ended by the time you read this edition. As the company disclosed just at the close today, the revenues at Spicy Pickle...
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 @ 07:04 am
The Pickle (OTC BB: SPKL) Call Reminder: Today at 4:15 Eastern; 1:15 Pacific As a reminder I encourage all investors interested in Spicy Pickle to tune in to today's conference call. It will begin 15 minutes after the market closes- that's 4:15 Eastern, 1:15 Pacific. This is the first conference call...
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 @ 11:04 am
Comments in the BLOG RIMM-UGH- right idea, wrong security. Watching that stock fall apart on Friday and hitting $115, as I predicted it would, was painful in that I had been blown out of the short term puts I suggested for a high risk trade at a loss. For those of you who are still in the trade, a couple...

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Latest Blog Entries

Tue, May 13, 2008 @ 09:50 am
SPKL filed its Q1 10Q yesterday afternoon, and the filing really contained no surprises. The market is responding in kind my delivering another quiet day of trading with the stock still trying to get through the $.90 and stick higher than that level. The top line number was $625k in revs- up from $221k in the [...]
Sun, Apr 6, 2008 @ 09:33 am
SPKL continues its pattern of trading very poorly on increased volume, and I’m getting a lot of emails with basically two questions- 1. Is there something wrong with the company?, and 2. Is it time to buy yet? Those of you who have really been following this story know that I am uniquely intimate with this [...]
Sat, Mar 29, 2008 @ 10:54 am
About a week ago SPKL filed its year end audited financial statement, and this is the first time I’ve had an opportunity to comment on the results. For those of you who would like to learn more about this rapidly growing fast casual restaurant chain, please go to our information center on the company- you will [...]
Tue, Mar 25, 2008 @ 10:40 am
This will be the first in a new series of daily blogs with some observations about today’s market action, especially as it applies to the current ideas I have in front of subscribers. Open LEH Puts: Well, the trade is working well so far. Earlier today I was up $2k on an $8k investment from last Friday, [...]
Mon, Mar 3, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
The Pickle had held up quite nicely in the face of the current nasty Bear that’s been gnashing its teeth at every non energy non commodity company out there. Today, the stock finally succumbed to the buyer’s strike, and broke below the ascending triangle which has been forming for the last several months, suggesting the stock [...]

Disclosure

Disclaimer:
Larry Isen, the editor and publisher of the OTC Journal, through various entities he controls, has purchased 1,200,441 shares of Spicy Pickle at an average cost of $.2125 per share. These purchases were made in Spicy Pickle private offerings. The aforementioned purchases were made between August of 2005 and August of 2006. On 12/15/07, on entity controlled by Larry Isen participated in an additional financing wherein 12 shares of convertible preferred, converting at $.85 into 120,000 shares and 90,000 warrants with an exercise price of $1.60 were purchased. In addition, Larry Isen has received 785,000 shares of Spicy Pickle common stock for consulting services and has purchased 213,343 shares in the open market at an average cost of $.89 cents per share. In addition, MarketByte LLC, an entity controlled by Larry Isen, has received a fee of $30,000 cash, and 300,000 newly issued restricted shares for coverage of Spicy Pickle. TGR Group LLC, the publisher of the Small Cap Network, has received $30,000 and 300,000 newly issued restricted shares for coverage of Spicy Pickle. Mr. Isen is an affiliate of TGR Group. In addition, two other individuals affiliated with TGR Group have purchased a total of 300,000 shares at $.25 per share, 21,961 in the open market at $.76 per share and received an additional 70,000 for consulting services. Current positions of the aforementioned can be found at www.otcjournal.com and www.smallcapnetwork.com in the Spicy Pickle information section.

Current Position as of 05/09/08:
1,712,289 Shares and 90,000 Warrants Convertible at $1.60

Total Dollars Liquidated as of 05/09/08:
$1,833,584.86

Recent News Headlines

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:49:30 Etc/GMT
Wed, 7 May 2008 15:00:00 Etc/GMT
Tue, 6 May 2008 20:10:00 Etc/GMT
Mon, 5 May 2008 14:00:00 Etc/GMT
CHICAGO----Spicy Pickle™ fast casual restaurants today announced it will be holding a fundraiser on Tuesday, May 6, to raise money on behalf of the "Care for the Caregivers" program at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital.
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:00 Etc/GMT
DENVER----The Spicy Pickle™ fast casual restaurant at 1298 S. Broadway today announced that 25% of their food sales on Thursday, May 1st will be donated to Project Angel Heart in support of their meals for people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:15:00 Etc/GMT
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:22:00 Etc/GMT
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:48:00 Etc/GMT
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:00 Etc/GMT
DENVER----Spicy Pickle™ fast casual restaurants announced today that it has been named to the #25 spot on Fast Casual magazine's listing of the "Top 100 Movers & Shakers" of 2007.
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Latest Blog Entries

Fri, May 16, 2008 @ 06:38 am
I’m travelling today and already late for my first meeting, so I can’t give you any real feedback on the NIHK quarterly report. However, it shouldn’t be that complicated. Revenues are way up, and losses are down. One of the biggest expenses now is dividends on preferred- which is being paid in shares- this could represent [...]
Thu, May 15, 2008 @ 07:59 am
Here’s my short term trading idea- time to go short. The larger market has been chugging up the charts relentlessly, all fear virtually gone. This is not an environment that lends itself to no risk in the market. The VIX - the measure of levels of fear in the markets, has all but disappeared. Remember, I wrote [...]
Tue, May 13, 2008 @ 09:50 am
SPKL filed its Q1 10Q yesterday afternoon, and the filing really contained no surprises. The market is responding in kind my delivering another quiet day of trading with the stock still trying to get through the $.90 and stick higher than that level. The top line number was $625k in revs- up from $221k in the [...]

Recent Newsletter Editions

Tue, May 13, 2008 @ 07:47 am
eFood Update: IP Plentiful- Sales "Moderate" After reading today's rather comprehensive update from eFoodSafety, one word popped into my head- Truthful- this is probably a darn good 25,000 foot view of where the company is in the process of commercializing it's IP (Intellectual Property) portfolio...
Fri, May 9, 2008 @ 03:19 pm
When Main Street and Wall Street Diverge Main Street and Wall Street are clearly out of sync right now. Large cap and big momentum stocks have come back beautifully since the massive Q1 drubbing, but small stocks are still trading in a virtual coma- we're just not seeing the kinds of volumes we need...
Tue, May 6, 2008 @ 01:05 pm
Pickle Opens #38- Texas Expansion Continues Despite the rather boring performance on the chart, Spicy Pickle has now gotten back on the new store opening bandwagon, and is announcing a second new store opening in as many weeks. Today, just after the market closed, SPKL announced its third Austin, Texas...