Who decides which cosmetic features and finishes must be removed from an Angry Chickz location upon termination?
Angry_Chickz Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
- 15.1.1 Franchisee shall immediately cease to use all Confidential Information, the Marks, and any confusingly similar trademark, service mark, trade name, logotype, or other commercial symbol or insignia. Franchisee shall immediately return the Manual(s), all training materials, records, customer lists, IS Data, files, advertising and promotional materials and all other written materials incorporating or containing Confidential Information. Franchisee shall at its own cost make cosmetic changes to the Franchised Business so that it no longer contains or resembles Company's proprietary designs and trade dress. Franchisee shall remove all materials that would identify the Franchised Business as a Restaurant and otherwise as a business operated under the Marks, System and Standards, and remove distinctive cosmetic features and finishes, lighting, FFE, décor, logos, signs, menus, decals, floor and wall coverings and colors, and exterior finishes and colors, as Company may direct. Franchisee shall, at Company's request, immediately grant Company access to the Franchised Business to make cosmetic changes to the Franchised Business so that it no longer resembles a Restaurant. Company is permitted to identify in the Manual(s) additional actions Franchisee must take following termination or expiration (including nonrenewal) to de-identify the Franchised Business, and Franchisee will timely perform all such additional actions.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 54)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Angry Chickz Franchise Disclosure Document, upon termination or non-renewal of the franchise agreement, the franchisee is responsible for making cosmetic changes to the business so that it no longer resembles Angry Chickz's proprietary designs and trade dress. Specifically, the franchisee must remove all materials that identify the business as an Angry Chickz restaurant.
The franchisor, Angry Chickz, has the authority to direct which distinctive cosmetic features and finishes, lighting, furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FFE), décor, logos, signs, menus, decals, floor and wall coverings and colors, and exterior finishes and colors must be removed. The franchisee is responsible for covering the costs of these cosmetic changes.
Furthermore, Angry Chickz can request immediate access to the franchise location to make these cosmetic changes themselves, indicating a high level of control over the brand's image even after a franchise agreement ends. The FDD also states that Angry Chickz is permitted to identify additional actions in the Manual(s) that the franchisee must take to de-identify the Franchised Business, and the franchisee will timely perform all such additional actions.