Does Bambu provide consultation, onboarding, and opening support?
Bambu Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Provide consultation, onboarding, and opening support as scheduled and as needed, in our sole discretion.
There will be scheduled a preassessment construction/remodeling review of your shoppe and an owner orientation, conducted after you sign your lease.
Approximately two days will be an owners training at a designated Bambū shoppe location conducted before your opening training is scheduled.
Approximately one day will involve a shoppe pre-opening assessment.
If we determine during our preassessment that the shoppe is not prepared for training and soft opening, we will reschedule the remainder of the training and charge for the additional costs incurred for travel cancellation and other additional expenses incurred by us.
Approximately seven and a half days for shoppe staff observation, guidance and consultation on-site at your shoppe at or around the time your shoppe commences operation, with soft-opening support. (Sections 6.2 and 7.1.a of the Franchise Agreement.)
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 28–38)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Bambu's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Bambu provides consultation, onboarding, and opening support as scheduled and as needed, in their sole discretion. Bambu will schedule a preassessment construction/remodeling review of your shoppe and an owner orientation, conducted after you sign your lease.
Prior to the opening training, Bambu provides approximately two days of owners training at a designated Bambū shoppe location. Bambu also provides approximately one day for a shoppe pre-opening assessment. If Bambu determines during their preassessment that the shoppe is not prepared for training and soft opening, they will reschedule the remainder of the training and charge for the additional costs incurred for travel cancellation and other additional expenses incurred by them. Bambu also provides approximately seven and a half days for shoppe staff observation, guidance and consultation on-site at your shoppe at or around the time your shoppe commences operation, with soft-opening support.
Bambu also assists with the lease for your Franchised Location, by assisting with the negotiations and preparation of the LOI for your lease, assisting with the negotiation of the lease, providing, among other things, an acceptable use clause. Bambu will provide a general workflow design or layout for the Franchised Location, typically after you have entered into the LOI for your Franchised Location and before you have signed the lease, provided that you have entered into the Franchise Agreement prior to signing the lease.