Hi all, I'm one of the investor in this Island Red Cafe.
First time i heard this, I feel that the concept is awesome. Anyway, I still spent more than 1 month period to do some survey before decided to invest it. I even seek opinion from a lawyer about the legalize & the S&P lawyer letter provided by IRC for the benefit guarantees.
Let me summarize the information i have about this investment concept.

Island Red Cafe (IRC) Global Partnership Franchise Business:

1. Whenever the region accumulated 50 slots investment, an IRC will be opened. 1 slot = RM6000. The investor will be the shareholder of the company & the royal customer and definitely will brings up more customers to the cafe. In short, win win situation for the shareholders and the company.

2. Shareholder's benefits:
i. Fix return RM300/slot (5% of the investment) for 1st and 2nd year = RM7200
Fix return RM150/slot (2.5% of the investment) for 3rd, 4th & 5th year = RM 5400
ii. RM100/slot food voucher given every month & will be give for total 5 years = RM6000
iii. VIP member discount 15%
iv. Birthday discount 30%

Total up the fix return & food voucher, the return is equal to RM18600, which is around 3x return of ur investment.
Imagine if u invest RM2 millions, ur return are RM6 millions after 5 years,

After 5 years, no more fix return but company will distribute 49% of the net profit to share among all the shareholders.

3. IRC's strengths:
i. Delicious food with vary choices.
ii. Reasonable price, with 6 star expenses but 3 star fees
iii. Good strategy and business plan, whereby the shareholders can share the company's profit
iv. All the shareholder's benefits are black & white guarantee with S/P & stamping from the lawyer, clarify the shareholder's benefits and protect the shareholder's rights.

4. Currently there are 3 IRC outlets already officially opened & operating.

i. IRC Cheras:
15G, Pandan Indah 1/23 B,
Pandan Indah,
55100 Kuala Lumpur

ii. IRC Puchong:
68, Jalan Puteri 5/1, Puteri Avenue,
Puchong 47100,
Selangor Darul Ehsan

iii. IRC Malacca:
G30,
Plaza Malacca Raya,
75000 Malacca

Feel free to ask me more questions & i'll answer it genuine,

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Added on May 1, 2008, 5:38 pmYes, ur name will be listed inside the company license.
U can check it at the Register Of Company...

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Added on May 1, 2008, 5:48 pmem, the cafe will only be opened if there is 50 slots or more than that...
so no matter how, the cafe will hv a group of royal customers...
take me as example, i hv RM100 voucher...definitely i will go there to eat frequenctly....
when i go there to eat, i will always ask my family or friends....

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Added on May 1, 2008, 5:54 pmdid u try all the food there? different people will hv different taste.
what i can say is the food there is the food i eat every day in other place.
so it give me an idea that, since eat the same thing, y not go bek to the cafe i invested?

drink u may try the island red cafe (hot) or ice blended laici....i prefered this 2...
food u may try the penang prawn mee, red sate, island nasi lemak, chicken wings...

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Added on May 1, 2008, 6:03 pmwe need to compare the cash generator btw sunshine empire & island red cafe...
the cash generator i mean is the business & method of how the company generator profit...
wat i can see that is the cash generator in sunshine empire haven't completely setup but they need to pay out more return to the investor...

island red cafe already hv 3 branches operating and generating profit...
in the coming may, johor skudai IRC will be opening soon....it will the the largest cafe in malaysia....



This post has been edited by cappuccino: May 1 2008, 06:03 PM

From the Deed of Mutual Agreement:

7. Further, should the Business be wound-up either voluntarily or upon a Court Order, the proceeds from the sale and/or disposal of the Licensor and the Licensee’s assets, upon being realized, shall be distributed to Shareholders who have not received their first twenty (20) monthly payments, and thence to be followed by the other Shareholders, again in the proportion to the lots held, and shall be treated as if the Shareholders were secured creditors.

It is ok if u dun believe it nw.
Perhaps u can wait until IRC become famous and opened more than 10 outlets in Malaysia and only invest on it.
Everyone must measure the risk & return & if ok with it then only invest.

Since this is another type of investment, I wouldn't say this business will 100% success, what I can help to make IRC work is make sure i recommend more friends to hv their meal there, .

Answer:

1. Yes, company will sign a contract "Deed of Mutual Agreement" between you and company once u decided to invest in IRC.
We even can do until lawyer to lawyer, meaning that u can bring ur own lawyer to meet IRC lawyer，nothing hide &　ｓｅｅｋ，

The rest question will refer back to u later. Or do u want to meet the boss to ask further?

In the mean time, u may go to check their business by visit to any of the branch, no pass needed,
Ask me along if u want to try the food there, i still hv voucher in hand,

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Added on May 1, 2008, 11:48 pmFirstly, there is no reason for any boss to wound up their business if the business is earning money, so does IRC.
Secondly, IRC is doing a solid cafe business, u can c the cafe is existing and know how's the business going time by time.

Feel free to understand the cash generator of IRC. IRC's profit is not from the new shareholder investment money.
The investment of new shareholder are use to open more outlets, eventually this outlets will bring more profits to the company.

With the concept "investment created expenses, expenses created investment", the business will only growing bigger. I can foreseen that IRC will become another successful franchise business in Malaysia or even better in International.

We can choose to be a pure investor or run the MLM business at the same time.
I would just think that this is a natural recommendation to friend when i found a nice cafe to eat. Only after that they can choose to become the shareholder or just be a normal customer in IRC.

Lowyat forum not allow to post any MLM business plan, . Will send to everyone who wan to know it provided they give me their email address.



This post has been edited by cappuccino: May 1 2008, 11:48 PM

I will get back to u asap.
My upline will be in KL this saturday, if u dun mind, i can arrange a time for u to meet him. I believed he can answer all ur doubts other than this issue that u raised.
Tqs for ur comment on the food, i will comment back to IRC management.

You are welcome,
I'll post out the date & time once fix it so that who interested can join the meeting.
Everyone feel free to go IRC to hv their meal & give comment to everything u feel not good.
I believe that IRC will still improving on the foods & drinks.

I treat this as my own business since I'm not afford to buy Franchise from McDonald, KFC or OldTown,

Air Asia taglines is 'Now everyone can fly' then IRC taglines will be "Now everyone can do franchise" . IRC's philosophy allow free choices for investors with different capital scales based on one’s financial condition and provide franchisees an interactive franchising support system for them to enter the international branded coffee franchising market comfortably.

Cheers!

Judegement Day...

So is 2molo meeting still on?
pls pm ur contact to me...will confirm with u the time to meet...
for those who interested to join the meeting, pls pm me ur number as well...
hv to fly tomolo nite, will not in kl for few weeks...hopefully can make it 2molo evening...

I consider myself as an opportunist + investor.
I'm still young & in my learning stage to become a good investor in the future.
Yes, u are absolutely rite, my survey didn't cover extensively on aspect of cost and operational cash flows on a monthly basis.
But, I invested IRC based on other reasons.

Honestly, I'm not a smart person & not borned as a successful businessman.
But i still able to differentiate what is right & wrong for me.

IRC is a potential business due the the concept is awesome.
Some people said, invest business based on concept is very risky & not realistic.
Well, everything around us was initially started by a concept.
MLM is a concept, so does Government system was a concept.
A concept can be executed well will success, a concept that can't be executed equal to zero.
Once this project success, the whole business model in our society will be change.
As IRC success, Island Red Work Shop, Island Red Florist or Island Red Cinema will be the next one.
I like to be a history creator not be a history follower.

Perhaps, a lot people think that IRC 100% can't success.
But did they notice, if everything need to wait until 100% only start working on it, when will they success?
They not even see that the return if IRC concept + a solid cafe business success.

My upline was shared with me sth.
In this world, not only black & white region.
In between it, they is a region called Grey region.
In order to make fast money & big money, need to depend on a lot factors.
The black region, if u involved it, it is very risky due to it is illegal. Illegal thing, better not do it.
The white region, money already been finish earned or left a little for u to grab, it is not easy to become rich.
Luckily, there still got one Grey region.
We need to observe, survey, analysis & make decision.
But, we cannot see everything.
Because, once u see everything, u will quit.
Ask urself one question, observe sth completely without any worry and somemore can make fast & big money, when is your turn?

If u not dare to challenge Grey region, u can wait slowly.
Perhaps u got luck & wish to become the next lottery winner.
Perhaps u are powerful enough to climb to the top in ur career.
But I like Grey region.

will check out the cash flow later...
the meeting will be on 2molo monday 6pm at IRC Cheras Pandan Indah...
anyone who interested can join...
scam or not scam, wait until 2molo judgment day as saying by silicon wiper,

This post has been edited by cappuccino: May 4 2008, 10:03 PM

tqs for teaching me, appreciate a lot....

Place: Island Red Cafe Cheras Pandan Indah (Behind The Store)
Time : 6pm
Date : 5th May 2008

Lists:
1) siliconwiper.com
2) cappuccino
3)
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my sponsor person is philip...
i don't know them...might to introduce their background a bit here?

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Added on May 6, 2008, 11:23 amhv sent the agreement to u, check it out...

This post has been edited by cappuccino: May 6 2008, 11:23 AM

1. u can transfer to someone that interested to buy over ur share. but the lawyer fees hv to be bear by u & ur buyers

2. yup, we do carries the voting rights. anything u not satisfy u may complain to company management so that they can improve from it.
we are consider the shareholder of the outlets, but not the specific outlet, instead we are invested in all the IRC outlets in Malaysia.

3. yes, the company is limited liabilities. but we won't liability to anything, company will bear if there is any loses.
for the company filed annual report & the auditor or solicitor, i think hv to ask the boss, =)

nope, u need to find the buyer to buy over ur share.
yes, anyone can buy over ur share anytime.

u may refer to www.2islandredcafe.com for the company background.

currently outstation...
will updates when go bek to kl...