What is the Beef O Bradys franchisee's obligation regarding modifications and supplements to the System Standards?
Beef_O_Bradys Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
or recommended participation in any ecommerce, Intranet, Internet or Website communities, systems or processes, Website and compliance with any Internet, Intranet or e-commerce policies or procedures which may establish from time to time; and
- (r) Start-Up Obligations. Your obligation, if designated by us, to provide the Beef's Operator Training Program, Opening On-Site Assistance, or additional or refresher training to Family Sports Pubs franchisees at your Family Sports Pub or at another location and at such times that we may designate from time to time. If we require you to provide Beef's Operator Training Program, Opening On-Site Assistance or additional or refresher training to new franchisees, we will compensate you the amount we determine to be the cost incurred by you for providing such Beef's Operator Training Program, Opening On-Site Assistance or additional or refresher training and a reasonable fee to you for your providing the training.
You agree that System Standards prescribed from time to time in the Manuals, or otherwise communicated to you in writing or other tangible form, constitute provisions of this Agreement as if fully set forth herein. All references to this Agreement include all System Standards as periodically modified.
- 11.3 Modification of System Standards. We may periodically modify System Standards, which may accommodate regional or local variations as we determine. Such modifications may obligate you to invest additional capital into your Family Sports Pub ("Capital Modifications") and/or cause you to incur higher operating costs. However, such modifications will not alter your fundamental status and rights under this Agreement. We will not obligate you to make any Capital Modifications when such investment cannot in our reasonable judgment be amortized during the remaining term of this Agreement**,** plus all eligible successor periods, unless we agree to extend the term of your franchise so that such additional investment, in our reasonable judgment, may be amortized; unless such investment is necessary in order to comply with applicable laws. We agree to give you up to 90 days to comply with Capital Modifications we require. However, if a Capital Modification requires an expenditure of more than $20,000 we agree to give you up to 180 days from the date such request is made to comply with such Capital Modification. You are obligated to comply with all modifications to System Standards, including Capital Modifications, within the time period we specify. In no event will we requ
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS. (FDD pages 66–330)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Beef O Bradys Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are obligated to comply with all modifications to the System Standards, including Capital Modifications, within the time period that Beef O Bradys specifies. These System Standards are prescribed in the Manuals or otherwise communicated in writing or tangible form and constitute provisions of the Franchise Agreement. All references to the agreement include all System Standards as periodically modified. Beef O Bradys may periodically modify System Standards, which may accommodate regional or local variations.
These modifications may require franchisees to invest additional capital into their Family Sports Pubs, referred to as Capital Modifications, and/or cause them to incur higher operating costs. However, these modifications will not alter the franchisee's fundamental status and rights under the Franchise Agreement. Beef O Bradys will not obligate franchisees to make any Capital Modifications when such investment cannot be reasonably amortized during the remaining term of the agreement, including eligible successor periods, unless they agree to extend the franchise term so that the additional investment may be amortized, or unless the investment is necessary to comply with applicable laws.
Beef O Bradys agrees to give franchisees up to 90 days to comply with required Capital Modifications. If a Capital Modification requires an expenditure of more than $20,000, Beef O Bradys agrees to give franchisees up to 180 days from the date the request is made to comply. However, Beef O Bradys will not require franchisees to spend in any 12-month period more than 25% of the total high-end Item 7 expenditure estimates for "Equipment," "Furniture, Fixtures & Millwork," "Audio and Video Equipment," "Leasehold Improvements," and "Signage", combined, from the Franchise Disclosure Document during the term of the agreement in connection with Capital Modifications.
Beef O Bradys reserves the right to require franchisees to make any Capital Modifications to re-image their Family Sports Pub when at least 75% of the Beef 'O' Brady's System has already adopted the new re-image. Franchisees must also maintain the Family Sports Pub's interior and exterior and the surrounding area in the highest degree of cleanliness, orderliness, and sanitation and comply with the requirements regarding the upkeep of the Family Sports Pub established in the Manuals and by federal, state, and local laws.