Can a Beggars Pizza franchisee use the internet to make sales outside of their territory?
Beggars_Pizza Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
In addition, you may accept orders and provide delivery service of approved menu items outside of your Territory (except in the specific geographic areas specified in your Franchise Agreement) provided that you refrain from mailing or delivering, or directing any third party from mailing or delivering, by any means, any hard copy print advertising, door hangers, hand-out advertisements, coupons, mailers, or other hard copy advertisements to business and residential addresses outside of your Territory. Any hard copy advertisement in a newspaper or any other advertising by television, radio, the Internet, or any other print or electronic medium will not be subject to this territorial restriction. You do not have the right to use other channels of distribution such as the Internet, telemarketing, or other direct marketing to make sales outside of your Territory unless permitted by us in the Manuals or otherwise in writing.
Source: Item 16 — RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT THE FRANCHISEE MAY SELL (FDD pages 30–31)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Beggars Pizza's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, a franchisee's ability to use the internet to make sales outside of their territory is restricted. While franchisees can accept orders and provide delivery service of approved menu items outside their territory (except in specific geographic areas defined in the Franchise Agreement), they are limited in the types of advertising they can use.
Specifically, franchisees are prohibited from mailing or delivering hard copy print advertising, door hangers, hand-out advertisements, coupons, mailers, or other hard copy advertisements to business and residential addresses outside of their territory. However, this restriction does not apply to advertising in newspapers or any other advertising via television, radio, the Internet, or any other print or electronic medium.
The FDD states that franchisees do not have the right to use other channels of distribution such as the Internet, telemarketing, or other direct marketing to make sales outside of their Territory unless permitted by Beggars Pizza in the Manuals or otherwise in writing. This means that while some forms of internet advertising are allowed, using the internet specifically to make sales outside of the territory requires explicit permission from Beggars Pizza. A prospective franchisee should clarify the specific conditions under which internet sales outside of the territory are permitted and what types of online marketing activities are allowed or disallowed.