Does Best Brains provide opening assistance?
Best_Brains Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
In addition to the above training, we provide you pre-opening and opening on-the-job supervision and assistance at the premises of your Franchised Business for approximately three days near the time of the opening of your Franchised Business.
Our Support Services Prior to Opening. 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.
Grand Opening Advertising. Before opening your Franchised Business, you must spend a minimum of $14,000 on local advertising and promotion of the opening of the Franchised Business in accordance with an opening marketing plan approved by us. These grand opening expenditures are in addition to the Brand Development Fund contributions specified above. We may require you to pay to the Brand Development Fund at the time of the "open house" before the scheduled opening of the Franchised Business these amounts which we will then spend for local advertising and promotion of the opening of the Franchised Business in accordance with an opening marketing plan developed by us.
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 does provide franchisees with pre-opening and opening assistance. Specifically, Best Brains provides on-the-job supervision and assistance at the franchisee's business premises for approximately three days around the time of opening. This is in addition to an initial training program that franchisees must complete before starting their Best Brains franchise.
Prior to opening, Best Brains will also use reasonable efforts to review the site selected by the franchisee to evaluate and approve the location. The FDD states that additional sites are considered until approval is reached. Best Brains lists factors they may consider for approval, including 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, rental obligations, lease terms, and the size and appearance of the site. Best Brains recommends a location size of 1,000 to 1,500 square feet.
Furthermore, franchisees are required to spend a minimum of $14,000 on local advertising and promotion before opening their Best Brains location, following an opening marketing plan approved by Best Brains. These grand opening expenditures are separate from the Brand Development Fund contributions. Best Brains may also require franchisees to pay these amounts to the Brand Development Fund at the time of the "open house," which Best Brains will then use for local advertising and promotion according to a marketing plan developed by them.