How does Aunt Millies Bakeries determine the Sales Area covered by my franchise?
Aunt_Millies_Bakeries Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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The Sales Area covered by your franchise is determined by us based on our need to ensure that our network of independent, franchised Distributors sufficiently covers Outlets in the Sales Area. All Sales Areas will contain existing Outlets that may have previously been serviced by us, and which will become your customers. Factors we consider in determining whether a Sales Area meets our approval are: (a) it contains a sufficient number of Outlets that generate a level of sales needed by the Distributor; and (b) its geographic size is not so large as to make it impossible for the Distributor to physically deliver the Products to all the Outlets within the Sales Area.
We designate the Sales Area and identify it in the Distribution Agreement offered to you. If you and we do not agree on a Sales Area, you will not enter into a Distribution Agreement with us.
We do not require you to have any office or business location either within or outside your Sales Area. The only requirement is that you have an address for purposes of corresponding with us.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S OBLIGATIONS (FDD pages 25–27)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Aunt Millies Bakeries's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the Sales Area for a franchise is determined by Aunt Millies Bakeries based on their need to ensure sufficient coverage of Outlets in the Sales Area by their network of independent, franchised Distributors. All Sales Areas will include existing Outlets that may have been previously serviced by Aunt Millies Bakeries, and these will become the franchisee's customers.
Factors that Aunt Millies Bakeries considers when determining whether a Sales Area meets their approval include: (a) whether the Sales Area contains a sufficient number of Outlets that generate a level of sales needed by the Distributor, and (b) whether the geographic size is not so large as to make it impossible for the Distributor to physically deliver the Products to all the Outlets within the Sales Area.
Aunt Millies Bakeries designates the Sales Area and identifies it in the Distribution Agreement offered to the prospective franchisee. The document states that if the franchisee and Aunt Millies Bakeries do not agree on a Sales Area, a Distribution Agreement will not be entered into. The FDD also states that before a franchisee opens their business, Aunt Millies Bakeries will designate their exclusive Sales Area (Distribution Agreement, §1.1) and sell to them the Products for their first week of operation.