It's easy for a contractor to justify picking up an "easy money" job and putting yours on the back burner if they know you aren't checking up on it regularly.

My fat wife might eat it too.

You want to be sure your GC is attentive/responsive to you and doesn’t put your project on the back-burner.

Remember the old saying: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. 

Over a 3 month period, the chlorine caused the sink, the faucet, the stove burners, and all the metal utensils to become covered with surface rust. 

The profit doesn't get divided until the fat lady sings.

I'm told his large amount of fat saved his life and he was out of work for a couple months. 

I didn't,I got super busy for a couple of weeks and put it on the back burner.

It just seems unreasonable that i have offered everything to them (pet deposit, increased rent, special products for the cat to have it not scratch things) and still get a big fat no in my face.

When you do this it drives gross sales for which they get a royalty off of but it takes your profit margins way down.These companies on re-image costs, food costs, advertising costs, running specials sometimes get one over on the franchisees by building in fat over the top markups on products.