When is the Quality Assurance Inspection Fee due for Americas Best Value Inn?
Americas_Best_Value_Inn Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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Note 7 – You must participate in all required quality assurance and guest satisfaction survey programs and maintain minimum performance standards and scores that we may establish as required by the Brand Standards for your Hotel. We may provide these programs through our affiliates or agents. We (or our affiliates or agents) may conduct an evaluation of your Hotel using the Brand Standards. The inspection entails a review of hotel operations. At the conclusion, the results, in a written and numerical report, will be provided to your Hotel management and to us. Your Hotel must write off folio charges (room, tax, food and beverage and incidental charges) for the inspector. We may require additional inspections if your Hotel's total score is below an acceptable level. We may waive your obligation to undergo a quality assurance inspection in a given year based on your Hotel's performance in the preceding year; if you nevertheless request an inspection, you will be required to pay the initial inspection fee. If we require additional inspections of your Hotel, we may charge up to $4,000 for the first re-inspection, and up to $5,000 for any subsequent re-inspection. You must pay the costs of all inspections, including the reimbursement of personnel's travel and meal expenses. If a quality assurance inspection is necessary to remediate guest satisfaction deficiencies, you may be required to pay $5,000 for such remediation inspection. The frequency and
Source: Item 6 — OTHER FEES (FDD pages 24–32)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Americas Best Value Inn Franchise Disclosure Document, the timing of the Quality Assurance Inspection Fee depends on the type of inspection. The standard inspection entails a review of hotel operations, and the hotel must write off folio charges (room, tax, food and beverage and incidental charges) for the inspector.
If Americas Best Value Inn requires additional inspections because the Hotel's total score is below an acceptable level, the franchisee must pay the costs of all inspections, including the reimbursement of personnel's travel and meal expenses. The FDD does not specify when these costs are due.
If a quality assurance inspection is necessary to remediate guest satisfaction deficiencies, the franchisee may be required to pay $5,000 for such remediation inspection. The FDD does not specify when this $5,000 fee, or the costs of travel and meal expenses, are due.