Can Beem Light Sauna require franchisees to complete additional training programs?
Beem_Light_Sauna Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
s been with us (or our affiliates) since 2022. Other executives with subject matter expertise will participate in portions of Initial Training. The Manuals, PowerPoints, and various training guides and materials serve as instructional materials.
Additional Training. We may periodically conduct mandatory or optional training programs for your Required Trainees and/or your employees at our office or another location that we designate. There will be no charge for training programs that we require you or your employees to attend (other than under the circumstances described above regarding Initial Training), but we may charge you a reasonable fee for optional training programs. We may provide additional training in person or via recorded media, teleconference, videoconference, the Internet, webinar, or any other means, as we determine. We may require your Required Trainees or employees to satisfactorily complete any additional training programs that we specify. We may require your Required Trainees to participate in up to five days of refresher or advanced training each year.
If, in our sole judgment, you fail to maintain the quality and service standards set forth in the Manuals, we may, in addition to all of our other rights and remedies, assign trainers to the Studio to retrain Studio employees and restore service levels and/or require you or your employees to repeat Initial Training or attend additional training programs at a location that we designate. We may charge a fee of up to $1,000 per trainer per day, plus their travel and living expenses, for each trainer assigned to your Studio and any remedial training.
If your Designated Manager ceases to be employed by you at the Studio and you are unable to immediately appoint and train a new manager, we may, in our sole discretion and for a reasonable fee, provide a Designated Manager to work at your Studio temporarily until a new Designated Manager is appointed and trained. In such instances, you will pay us the Management Fee.
Training by You. Your Required Trainees are responsible for training all of your other employees (and subsequent Designated Managers) in accordance with our standards and training programs.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 37–47)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Beem Light Sauna's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Beem Light Sauna may periodically conduct mandatory or optional training programs for the franchisee's Required Trainees and/or employees at a designated location. There will be no charge for mandatory training programs, but Beem Light Sauna may charge a reasonable fee for optional training programs. Beem Light Sauna may provide additional training in person or via recorded media, teleconference, videoconference, the Internet, webinar, or any other means. Beem Light Sauna may require the franchisee's Required Trainees or employees to satisfactorily complete any additional training programs and may require Required Trainees to participate in up to five days of refresher or advanced training each year.
If a Beem Light Sauna franchisee fails to maintain the quality and service standards in the Manuals, Beem Light Sauna may assign trainers to the Studio to retrain employees and restore service levels, or require the franchisee or their employees to repeat Initial Training or attend additional training programs. Beem Light Sauna may charge a fee of up to $1,000 per trainer per day, plus their travel and living expenses, for each trainer assigned to the Studio and any remedial training.
Franchisees are responsible for reimbursing Beem Light Sauna for any travel and living expenses incurred by their employees or agents related to providing any additional training, remedial training, or consulting services at the Studio. If a franchisee's Designated Manager ceases to be employed by them and they are unable to immediately appoint and train a new manager, Beem Light Sauna may, for a reasonable fee, provide a Designated Manager to work at the Studio temporarily until a new Designated Manager is appointed and trained. In such instances, the franchisee will pay Beem Light Sauna the Management Fee.
Beem Light Sauna franchisees are responsible for training all of their other employees (and subsequent Designated Managers) in accordance with Beem Light Sauna's standards and training programs. If a franchisee fails to properly train their employees, Beem Light Sauna may prohibit them from training additional employees and either require them to attend training at their headquarters (for which the franchisee must pay a training fee of up to $1,000 (currently, $500) per trainee per day) or pay for Beem Light Sauna's costs and expenses to send one of their representatives to train them at the franchisee's Studio.