Under what circumstances might Bang Cookies require franchisees or their Operating Manager to participate in supplemental on-site training?
Bang_Cookies Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
anchise Agreement, Article 3.C.).
Post-Opening Obligations
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- Supplemental Training We may require that you and your Operating Manager participate in supplemental on-site training that we may designate and require in our discretion. We may provide, in our discretion, supplemental training on-site at your Shop Location. You will be required to pay our then current supplemental training fee, currently $300 per on-site trainer per day, plus travel expenses, meals and accommodation expenses incurred by us. (Franchise Agreement, Article 4.A.);
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- Initial Training for Replacement Operating Manager(s) Your Operating Manager must complete, to our satisfaction, our initial training program. We will offer and make available to your replacement Operating Manager our initial training program which must be complete to our satisfaction. The initial
training program will be provided by us at the facilities that we designate that, presently, is comprised of our Shop located in Edison, New Jersey and at the certified training Shop that we designate in Edison, New Jersey.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 29–36)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Bang Cookies' 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, Bang Cookies may require franchisees and their Operating Manager to participate in supplemental on-site training at their discretion. This supplemental training may be provided on-site at the franchisee's shop location.
If Bang Cookies requires supplemental on-site training, the franchisee is responsible for paying a supplemental training fee. As of the issuance date of the FDD, this fee is $300 per on-site trainer per day. In addition to the training fee, the franchisee must also cover the travel expenses, meals, and accommodation expenses incurred by Bang Cookies for the training.
Bang Cookies also reserves the right to require franchisees (or their Managing Owner, if the franchisee is a corporation) to attend a system-wide training program. If such a program is established, it will be offered at Bang Cookies' affiliate-owned shop in New Jersey. The franchisee will be responsible for all travel expenses, lodging, food, car rental, and employee wages incurred while attending the system-wide training program. Bang Cookies will not require attendance at a System-Wide Training Program for more than a total of five days in any calendar year.