Besides the Franchised Location, what is required to operate another Bambu shoppe?
Bambu Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
e require you or your employees to attend additional training specifically for you.
ITEM 12
TERRITORY
You may operate your shoppe and use the Marks and the Bambū system only at the Franchised Location which has been approved by us. You may not operate another Bambū shoppe at any site other than the Franchised Location without first obtaining our written consent, which will require you acquiring another franchise and entering into another franchise agreement, the terms of which may be materially different than the terms set forth in the Franchise Agreement attached to this Disclosure Document. We base our approval of your proposed Franchised Location on a variety of factors including the visibility and demographics of the proposed Franchised Location. See Item 11. If you execute your Franchise Agreement before you select and we approve a site, we will designate a "Designated Area" within which you must find a Franchised Location. The designation of the Designated Area does not in any manner grant to you any continuing territorial rights in or to the Designated Area.
Your Franchise Agreement designates a geographic area ("Protected Area") in which we will not establish and operate, or franchise anyone else to establish and operate, other Bambū shoppes, except as described below. The Protected Area may be defined by a radius around the shoppe, zip code boundaries, street boundaries or similar designations. The placement of a shoppe and the designation of a Protected Area by us depends on various demographic and market conditions around a proposed Franchised Location, including density of population, number of competitors and other food uses in the market, site availability, traffic, access and growth potential.
The designation of your Franchised Location, Protected Area or, if applicable, Development Area, does not grant you the exclusive right to any particular market or customers.
Source: Item 12 — (FDD pages 38–40)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Bambu's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, a franchisee needs written consent from Bambu to operate another shoppe at a different location. This consent necessitates acquiring another franchise and entering into a new franchise agreement, which may have terms that differ significantly from the original agreement. Bambu's approval hinges on factors such as the visibility and demographics of the proposed location.
If a franchisee wishes to relocate their existing Bambu shoppe, they must obtain written consent from Bambu and pay a relocation fee of $15,000. Upon payment, Bambu will provide support for the new location, including two site visits and three days of additional training. During the relocation, the franchisee is responsible for Royalty Fee payments, but the Marketing and Technology Fee will be waived until the relocated shoppe reopens.
Bambu retains the right to use the Bambu system and Marks to establish restaurants similar to Bambu shoppes that service walkup and drive-thru customers but without indoor seating (a "Drive-thru shoppe"), at any location, including in your Protected Area and, if applicable, in your Development Area; provided that if Bambu desires to open or permit someone else to open a Drive-thru shoppe in your Protected Area or Development Area, they will give you a right of first refusal to participate in the Drive-thru shoppe with either partial or whole ownership thereof.