What does Bambu consider to be its proprietary and confidential property?
Bambu Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
We consider our FRC Materials and related materials, training materials, drink and food item preparation information, ingredients and cooking recipes, menus, food preparation techniques and methods, customer and loyalty member lists, our Bambū system and any program that we develop as our proprietary and confidential property. They may be used by you only as described in the Franchise Agreement. You must maintain the confidentiality of our proprietary information and adopt reasonable procedures to safeguard our written materials and prevent unauthorized disclosure of our trade secrets and proprietary information, such as requiring that you enter into a nondisclosure and noncompetition agreement with each of your employees. Although we have not obtained a copyright registration, we own the copyright in our FRC Materials, training materials, advertising materials and other works.
We may, in our discretion, require you and each of your officers, partners, directors, beneficial owners and employees who become aware of or have access to our confidential information, and their immediate family members, to execute our Nondisclosure and Noncompetition Agreement in the form attached to this Disclosure Document as Exhibit C. You must provide us with a copy of each Nondisclosure and Noncompetition Agreement at the time it is signed and upon our request.
Source: Item 14 — Patents, Copyrights, and Proprietary Information (FDD page 42)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Bambu's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the company considers its FRC (Franchise Resource Center) Materials and related materials, training materials, drink and food item preparation information, ingredients and cooking recipes, menus, food preparation techniques and methods, customer and loyalty member lists, the Bambu system, and any program that they develop as their proprietary and confidential property. Bambu states that franchisees may only use these items as described in the Franchise Agreement.
Bambu emphasizes the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of its proprietary information. Franchisees must adopt reasonable procedures to safeguard Bambu's written materials and prevent unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets and proprietary information. One way to do this is by requiring employees to sign a non-disclosure and non-competition agreement.
Although Bambu has not obtained a copyright registration, they own the copyright in their FRC Materials, training materials, advertising materials, and other works. Bambu may require franchisees, their officers, partners, directors, beneficial owners, employees, and their immediate family members who become aware of or have access to Bambu's confidential information to execute a Nondisclosure and Noncompetition Agreement.