What is the accounting period used to calculate the Brand Fund fee for Beggars Pizza?
Beggars_Pizza Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You must pay the Brand Fund a weekly fee of 1% of your Gross Sales for the preceding Accounting Period. Your contributions to the Brand Fund are in addition to the required grand opening and local advertising described above. (Franchise Agreement, Section 12.4.) Beggars Pizza® Restaurants owned and operated by us or our affiliates currently contribute to the Brand Fund in the same manner and at the same rates as franchised Beggars Pizza® Restaurants, but they are not required to do so.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 19–26)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Beggars Pizza Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are required to pay a weekly fee to the Brand Fund. This fee is calculated as 1% of the Gross Sales from the preceding Accounting Period.
The Brand Fund contributions are separate from any required grand opening and local advertising expenses that a franchisee may incur. These contributions are used by Beggars Pizza to maintain, administer, and direct advertising, marketing, and promotional programs to enhance the image of the Beggars Pizza system.
Beggars Pizza restaurants that are owned and operated by the company or its affiliates also contribute to the Brand Fund at the same rate as franchised locations, although they are not required to do so. The Brand Fund is intended to be used for the benefit of the entire Beggars Pizza system, and Beggars Pizza aims to expend all contributions within the fiscal year they are received, or no later than the end of the following taxable year.