What is the dependency between the Anago Manuals and the required forms for franchise sales?
Anago Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
here are no contractual limitations on the frequency and cost of upgrading or updating your computer system.
Operating Manual
After you have signed your Anago Subfranchise Rights Agreement and shortly before completing the Anago Training Program, we will loan you a copy of our Subfranchisor Operation Manuals comprised of the Master Franchise Operating Manual which includes Introduction to the Manual, Introduction to the Franchise System, Understanding Franchising, Pre-opening Procedures, Personnel, Franchise Sales Process, Franchise Orientation, Telemarketing, Sales, Bidding, & Estimating, Brand Standards, Marketing, and Management Documents, the IGAS Manual, Unit Franchise Operating Manual which includes Introduction to the Manual, Introduction to the Franchise System, Pre-Opening Procedures, Personnel, Policies & Procedures, Daily Operating Procedures, Floor Care, Safety and Security, Biohazards, Financial Reports, Bidding & Estimating, and Management Documents and Forms, CleanSource® Training Manual, the AnagoCloud Handbook, the Unit Franchise Owner's Guide to Anago Protection+ Disinfection, and the Unit
Franchise Owner's Guide to Electrostatic Spraying. (Section 6.1 of the Subfranchise Rights Agreement) (the "Anago Manuals" or "Manuals"). Our Manuals contain proprietary information and you must keep this information confidential.
The current Manuals consist of a total of 1,113 pages. The Table of Contents for the Manuals is attached to this Disclosure Document as Exhibit G.
Site Selection Methods
You must operate your Anago Subfranchise Rights Business from an office location approved by us (the "Premises"), which office must be within your Area (as defined in Item 12). The Premises must be equipped with a business telephone, computer system with Internet access, facsimile and electronic mail capabilities, and computer software that meets our standards and specifications. If you lease the Premises from a third party, you and the landlord for the leased premises must sign and deliver to us a collateral assignment of your rights under the lease for the premises in the form attached to your Anago Subfranchise Rights Agreement as Exhibit X. Under the collateral assignment agreement, you must, at our option, assign all of your rights under the lease to us upon termination or expiration of your Anago Subfranchise Rights Agreement.
In approving your site, we consider the location of your proposed office, ease of access, location of competitive businesses and the cost and condition of the facility in which the proposed office is to be located.
Source: Item 16 — RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT THE FRANCHISEE MAY SELL (FDD pages 43–44)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Anago's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the Anago Subfranchisor Operation Manuals cover the franchise sales process. After signing the Subfranchise Rights Agreement, but shortly before completing the Anago Training Program, Anago will loan a copy of the Subfranchisor Operation Manuals. These manuals consist of the Master Franchise Operating Manual, the IGAS Manual, the Unit Franchise Operating Manual, the CleanSource® Training Manual, the AnagoCloud Handbook, the Unit Franchise Owner's Guide to Anago Protection+ Disinfection, and the Unit Franchise Owner's Guide to Electrostatic Spraying. The Unit Franchise Operating Manual includes a section on Management Documents and Forms.
Anago will provide an initial set of forms to the franchisee, including a standard brochure and various operational forms. They will also provide standardized periodic reporting forms for reporting performance, evaluation, inspection, and communication.
The franchisee agrees to operate the Anago Unit Franchise in conformity with all mandatory uniform methods, standards, and specifications required in the Unit Franchise Operating Manual or otherwise. The franchisee must also maintain sufficient supplies, advertising methods and formats, and equipment that conform to Anago's standards as specified in the Manual.