What is the name of the Illinois corporation that is the predecessor to Aw?
Aw Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
The franchisor is Rayyan Pizza Franchise LLC. To simplify the language in this Disclosure Document, the franchisor will be referred to as "Company," "us" or "we." "You" means the person who buys the franchise. If you are a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity created by law, certain provisions of the franchise agreement also apply to your direct or indirect owners and will be noted. These owners must personally guarantee payment and performance of all of your obligations to us.
Rayyan Pizza Franchise LLC is an Illinois limited liability company organized on December 4, 2012. We do business under our corporate name and under the name Papa Ray's Pizza & Wings. Our principal business address is 8 McGlashen Drive, South Barrington, Illinois 60010. Our agent for service of process in your state, if applicable, is disclosed in Exhibit A.
We do not have a parent company. Our predecessor is Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc., an Illinois corporation, with a principal place of business at 8 McGlashen Drive, South Barrington, Illinois 60010. Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc. established the first Papa Ray's Pizza & Wings restaurant in April 2010 and developed the system for operating a Papa Ray's Pizza & Wings Restaurant. We acquired our rights in and to the System (as described below) from Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc. in December 2012.
Source: Item 1 — THE FRANCHISOR AND ANY PARENTS, PREDECESSORS AND AFFILIATES (FDD pages 10–11)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Aw's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the predecessor to Rayyan Pizza Franchise LLC is Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc., which is also an Illinois corporation. Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc. established the first Papa Ray's Pizza & Wings restaurant in April 2010 and developed the system for operating the restaurant. The principal place of business for Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc. is located at 8 McGlashen Drive, South Barrington, Illinois 60010.
Aw acquired the rights to the Papa Ray's Pizza & Wings system from Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc. in December 2012. This indicates a transfer of the operational methods, standards, and intellectual property related to the restaurant franchise from the predecessor to the current franchisor.
Additionally, the FDD mentions that Papa Ray's Pizza 1, Inc. operated the first Papa Ray's Pizza & Wings restaurant from April 2010 to August 2014. This provides a timeline of the predecessor's direct involvement in operating a restaurant under the brand before Aw took over the franchise system.