What is a 'Bakery Location' for a Bang Cookies franchise?
Bang_Cookies Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
Because our Shops offer homemade cookies, cakes, and other baked good menu items, the initial Shop that you establish must be a bakery location that includes full production facilities, including a convection oven and kitchen capable of producing, on-site, dough for all of our homemade cookies and most of our baked menu items (a "Bakery Location"). If you maintain and operate a Bakery Location and you elect to establish
and operate additional Bang Cookie Shops located within a close geographic range to your Bakery Location, up to two additional Shops, depending on the production capacity of your Bakery Location may, if approved by us, be established as satellite locations (each, a "Satellite Location") each, with a smaller kitchen, preparation, and baking area that is limited to baking cookies and other baked goods that are baked from dough and other baking items that are partially prepared at your Location and delivered to your Satellite Location. A Bakery Location must be located at a retail location comprising approximately 1,500 to 2,500 square feet with approximately 600 to 700 square feet dedicated to your kitchen and baking facilities. A Satellite Location must be located at a retail location comprising approximately 800 to 1,000 square feet with approximately 600 to 800 square feet dedicated to your limited kitchen preparation and baking facilities.
Whether or not a Shop qualifies as a Bakery Location and the type, number, and location of Satellite Locations that a Bakery Location may support, requires our written approval. If you are granted the right to establish multiple Shops, there is no obligation to establish your additional Shops as Satellite Locations. Unless you sign a multi-unit development agreement, there is no guarantee that we may approve or award you the right to enter into any additional Franchise Agreements. You must assume that every Shop Location that you establish (subject to our Franchise Agreement and, if applicable, multi-unit development agreement) must be established as a Bakery Location unless we, in writing, otherwise approve of a Shop qualifying as a Satellite Location. Unless otherwise noted, the disclosures contained in this Disclosure Document apply whether or not your Shop qualifies as a Bakery Location or Satellite Location.
Source: Item 1 — THE FRANCHISOR AND ANY PARENTS, PREDECESSORS AND AFFILIATES (FDD pages 8–11)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Bang Cookies' 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, a 'Bakery Location' is the initial shop a franchisee establishes, featuring full production facilities. This includes a convection oven and a kitchen capable of producing dough on-site for all of Bang Cookies' homemade cookies and most of their baked menu items. A Bakery Location must be located at a retail location comprising approximately 1,500 to 2,500 square feet with approximately 600 to 700 square feet dedicated to your kitchen and baking facilities.
Bang Cookies requires the initial shop to be a Bakery Location because they offer homemade cookies, cakes, and other baked goods. This ensures that the franchisee can produce the dough and baked goods fresh on-site. If a franchisee maintains and operates a Bakery Location, they may have the option to establish additional satellite locations.
These satellite locations can be supported by the Bakery Location, depending on its production capacity and with Bang Cookies' approval. A Satellite Location must be located at a retail location comprising approximately 800 to 1,000 square feet with approximately 600 to 800 square feet dedicated to your limited kitchen preparation and baking facilities. The FDD specifies that whether a shop qualifies as a Bakery Location and the type, number, and location of Satellite Locations that a Bakery Location may support, requires written approval from Bang Cookies.
Prospective franchisees should note that unless they sign a multi-unit development agreement, there is no guarantee that Bang Cookies will approve or award them the right to enter into any additional Franchise Agreements. The FDD states that franchisees must assume that every Shop Location that they establish must be established as a Bakery Location unless Bang Cookies, in writing, approves of a Shop qualifying as a Satellite Location.