It was marketed as the perfect low-cost franchise opportunity for eager investors. At just over half-a-million rand, you’d have a chance of owning a lucrative Hallal fast food business. Now the financial chickens are coming home to roost for several irate franchisees who say they were sold a pipedream. Carte Blanche investigates a trail of broken promises and empty pockets, uncovering a business model apparently launched on a wing and a prayer.