Does Best Brains have to approve additional sites for a Best Brains franchise?
Best_Brains Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
(1) Use our reasonable best efforts to review a site you have selected. We review the site in order to evaluate and approve the location of your Franchised Business within thirty days after you provide us the information about the site. Additional sites are considered until our approval is reached. You must obtain our approval of the site location and the lease. The factors which we may (but are not required to) consider for our approval include demographic radius characteristics and growth factors in the area, traffic patterns, ease of access, parking, visibility, allowed signage, competition from other businesses providing similar products and services, the proximity to other businesses, the nature of the businesses in proximity to the proposed site, and other commercial characteristics (including rental obligations and other lease terms for the proposed site) and the size, appearance and other physical characteristics of the proposed site location. We recommend that the size of the location be 1,000 to 1,500 square feet. We approve or disapprove locations or leases by a written notice which is delivered to you. We use our reasonable best efforts to deliver this notification to you within 30 days after the location evaluation or lease information is available.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 23–28)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Best Brains' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Best Brains requires approval of the site location and the lease for a franchised business. The franchisor uses reasonable efforts to review a site selected by the franchisee to evaluate and approve the location, within thirty days after receiving the site information. Additional sites are considered until approval is reached.
The factors that Best Brains may consider for approval include demographic radius characteristics and growth factors, traffic patterns, ease of access, parking, visibility, allowed signage, competition, proximity to other businesses, the nature of nearby businesses, commercial characteristics (including rental obligations and other lease terms), and the size, appearance, and physical characteristics of the proposed site. Best Brains recommends that the location size be 1,000 to 1,500 square feet.
Best Brains approves or disapproves locations or leases via written notice delivered to the franchisee, using reasonable efforts to deliver this notification within 30 days after the location evaluation or lease information is available. Furthermore, franchisees must not sign any lease that has not been approved in writing by Best Brains. If the business premises is to be leased, the lease must be submitted to Best Brains for written approval at least fifteen days before it is scheduled to be executed.