Does Aw specify the content of the confidentiality agreement that managers and employees must sign?
Aw Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
responding intellectual property rights are assigned to us.
You may not use our confidential information (as defined in the Franchise Agreement) in any unauthorized manner. You must take reasonable steps to prevent disclosure of our confidential information to others, including having your managers and employees sign a confidentiality agreement. All of your managers and other employees who attend our training programs, seminars or conferences and/or have access to the confidential information must maintain the confidentiality of that information and sign a confidentiality agreement in a form approved by us. You must provide us with copies of the signed confidentiality agreements before the manager or employees receives training.
There are currently no effective determinations of the Copyright Office (Library of Congress) or any court regarding any of the copyrighted materials. There are no agreements currently in effect which significantly limit our right to use or license the use of any copyrighted materials. There are no infringing uses actually known to us which could materially affect a franchisee's use of the copyrighted materials in any state. We are not required by any agreement to protect or defend copyrights, trade secrets or confidential information, although we intend to take whatever action, we deem necessary to protect the best interests of Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurant System.
Item 15 OBLIGATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTUAL OPERATION OF THE FRANCHISE BUSINESS
You (or your Owner) must at all times perform the obligations under the Franchise Agreement, exert your best efforts to promote and enhance the business of your Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurant and/or to affect the widest and best possible distribution of products and services from your Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurant.
Under the Franchise Agreement, you are not required to personally supervise the operations of your Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurant;
Source: Item 14 — PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION (FDD page 32)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Aw's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are required to have their managers and employees sign a confidentiality agreement. Aw retains the right to prescribe the form of agreement used.
The confidentiality agreement is intended to protect Aw's Confidential Information, which includes methods, techniques, formats, specifications, procedures, information, systems and knowledge of and experience in the development, operation, and franchising of Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurants; source of supply, ordering and inventory control and methods of providing the products and services sold at Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurants; recipes and methods for preparation of food products; knowledge of sales and profit performance of any one or more Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurants; knowledge of test programs, concepts or results relating to new services and products; sources of products; advertising, marketing and promotional programs; construction, lay-out, equipping and decoration of Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurants; selection and training of Papa Ray's Pizza Restaurant managers and other personnel; methods of training managers and other employees; and contents of the Operations Manual or other written material provided to you in whatever media.
Franchisees must provide Aw with copies of the signed confidentiality agreements before managers or employees receive training. The restrictions on disclosure and use of confidential information do not apply to information generally known in the food and restaurant industry or disclosures required in legal proceedings, provided Aw has the opportunity to obtain a protective order.