What is the obligation of a Beggars Pizza franchisee regarding the acceptance of delivery orders?
Beggars_Pizza Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You must provide delivery service of all approved menu items to customers located in your Territory. Delivery service must be made in accordance with our then-current delivery standards as described in the Manuals. Your delivery rights are not exclusive, and other Beggars Pizza® Restaurants may accept delivery orders and provide delivery services in your Territory. 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 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 26–28)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Beggars Pizza's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees must provide delivery service of all approved menu items to customers within their territory. This delivery service must adhere to Beggars Pizza's current delivery standards as outlined in their manuals. However, the franchisee's delivery rights are not exclusive, meaning other Beggars Pizza restaurants may also accept delivery orders and provide delivery services within the same territory.
Furthermore, a Beggars Pizza franchisee can accept orders and provide delivery service of approved menu items outside their designated territory, unless specifically restricted by the Franchise Agreement. However, franchisees are restricted from using hard copy print advertising, such as door hangers or coupons, to solicit business outside their territory. This restriction does not apply to advertising through newspapers, television, radio, the Internet, or other print or electronic media.
Beggars Pizza 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 franchisees are obligated to provide delivery service within their territory, their rights to do so are not exclusive, and they face certain restrictions when attempting to solicit or conduct business outside of their territory.