What factors does Best Brains consider when evaluating the parking of a proposed Best Brains site?
Best_Brains Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Before you open your Franchised Business, we will:
(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 the 2025 Best Brains Franchise Disclosure Document, when a franchisee selects a potential site for their learning center, Best Brains will review the site. As part of this review, Best Brains may consider parking as one of the factors for approval, though they are not required to do so.
Specifically, Best Brains evaluates the ease of access to the location and the parking situation. This suggests that Best Brains is concerned with how easily parents can drop off and pick up their children from the learning center. Ample and easily accessible parking can contribute to a better customer experience.
In addition to parking and ease of access, Best Brains may also consider demographic radius characteristics and growth factors in the area, traffic patterns, visibility, allowed signage, competition, proximity to other businesses, the nature of nearby businesses, commercial characteristics such as rental obligations and lease terms, and the physical characteristics of the site. The FDD states that Best Brains approves or disapproves locations or leases by written notice delivered to the franchisee, and they use reasonable efforts to deliver this notification within 30 days after the location evaluation or lease information is available.