Can Bigfoot Forestry designate certain services as optional?
Bigfoot_Forestry Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
- **11.3.
Authorized Goods & Services.** You must offer and provide all Bigfoot Forestry Services we require from time to time in our commercially reasonable discretion.
We may designate certain Bigfoot Forestry Services as optional, in which case you have the option, but not the obligation, to offer such services.
As a condition to offering optional goods or services you may be required to complete additional training, purchase additional equipment and tools and secure additional licenses or permits.
You may not offer any other goods or services without our prior written permission.
You may not sell any goods or services we have disapproved.
You may not use your Business, or permit your Business to be used, for any purpose other than offering the goods and services we authorize.
We may change authorized goods and services at any time and you must comply with our instructions regarding same.
Any such change shall not constitute a termination of this Agreement.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPT (FDD pages 42–162)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Bigfoot Forestry's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees must offer all services that Bigfoot Forestry requires. However, Bigfoot Forestry has the option to designate certain services as optional for franchisees.
If Bigfoot Forestry designates certain services as optional, franchisees are not obligated to offer them. This provides franchisees with some flexibility in tailoring their service offerings to their local market or business capabilities.
However, if a franchisee chooses to offer these optional services, Bigfoot Forestry may require them to complete additional training, purchase additional equipment and tools, and secure additional licenses or permits. This ensures that franchisees offering these services meet Bigfoot Forestry's standards and are properly equipped to deliver them. Franchisees are not allowed to offer any goods or services that have not been approved by Bigfoot Forestry.