Can Beyond Juicery Eatery require franchisees to purchase items only from designated or approved suppliers?
Beyond_Juicery_Eatery Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
- 6.10 You shall acquire all inventory, supplies, and other products, materials required for the operation and maintenance of the Restaurant, and all other Approved Supplies solely from Approved Suppliers.
If you want to do otherwise, you must comply with section 5.06 of this Agreement and the Operations Manuals.
We may, in the exercise of our business judgment, enter into supply contracts for all Restaurants or a subset of Restaurants situated within one (1) or more geographic regions (each, a "system-wide supply contract").
We may enter into system-wide supply contracts with one or more suppliers of products, services, equipment that all affiliateowned and franchised Restaurants in a geographic area will be required to purchase, use, or sell.
If we do so, then immediately upon notification, you, us and all other franchise Restaurants in the geographic area must purchase the specified product, service, or equipment only from the Designated Supplier.
However, if at the time of our notification, you are already a party to a nonterminable supply contract with another supplier or vendor for the product, service, or equipment, then your obligation to purchase from our Designated Supplier under the system-wide supply contract will not begin until the scheduled expiration (or earlier termination) of your pre-existing supply contract.
We make no representation that we will enter into any system-wide supply contracts or other exclusive supply arrangements or, if we do so, that you would not otherwise be able to purchase the same products and/or services at a lower price from another supplier.
We may add to, modify, substitute, or discontinue system-wide supply contracts or exclusive supply arrangements in the exercise of our business judgment.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 60–337)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Beyond Juicery Eatery's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are generally required to purchase inventory, supplies, and other products and materials from approved suppliers. Specifically, franchisees must acquire all items needed for the operation and maintenance of the restaurant, as well as all other approved supplies, exclusively from these approved suppliers.
However, there is a process for franchisees to request exceptions to this rule. If a franchisee wishes to purchase from a different supplier, they must comply with Section 5.06 of the Franchise Agreement and the Operations Manuals, which likely outlines the procedure for seeking approval of alternative suppliers.
Beyond Juicery Eatery also retains the right to establish system-wide supply contracts within certain geographic regions. If such contracts are established, franchisees within the specified area must purchase the designated products, services, or equipment only from the designated supplier. An exception exists if a franchisee already has a non-terminable supply contract with another vendor at the time of notification; in this case, the obligation to purchase from the designated supplier begins upon the expiration or termination of the pre-existing contract. The document states that Beyond Juicery Eatery may modify or discontinue these system-wide supply contracts at their discretion and makes no guarantee that franchisees will not be able to find the same products or services at a lower price from another supplier.