Under what conditions can Body20 amend, modify, or supplement the Manuals?
Body20 Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
(including meals, transportation, and accommodations), wages, and other expenses incurred by your trainees. In addition to paying any applicable training or consulting fees, you are responsible for reimbursing us for any travel and living expenses incurred by our and our affiliates'
employees or agents related to providing any additional training, remedial training, or consulting services at your Studio.
Section 6 Studio Operation and System Standards
6.1 Manuals.
- (a) Compliance with the Manuals. We will furnish you with electronic access to our Manuals, on loan for as long as this Agreement or a successor franchise agreement remains in effect. We reserve the right to furnish all or part of the Manuals to you in electronic form and to establish terms of use for access to any restricted portion of our website. You must comply with and abide by each required System Standard contained in the Manuals, as they may be amended, modified, or supplemented periodically and such other written or electronically transmitted System Standards that we may issue periodically. You acknowledge that we may amend, modify, or supplement the Manuals at any time, so long as such amendments, modifications, or supplements will, in our good faith opinion, benefit us and our existing and future franchisees or will otherwise improve the System. You must comply with revised mandatory System Standards within 30 days after we transmit the updates, unless otherwise specified.
- (b) Use of the Manuals. You agree to keep your copy of the Manuals up-to-date. If there is any dispute as to the current contents of the Manuals, the terms of our master copy maintained at our headquarters will control. You acknowledge that we own the copyright in the Manuals and that your copy of the Manuals remains our property and will be returned to us immediately upon expiration or termination of this Agreement.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPT (FDD pages 74–251)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Body20's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Body20 retains the right to amend, modify, or supplement its operations manuals (the "Manuals") periodically. These manuals contain the System Standards that franchisees must adhere to.
Body20 can make these changes at any time, provided that, in Body20's good faith opinion, the changes benefit both Body20 and its existing and future franchisees, or otherwise improve the Body20 system. This means that Body20 has broad discretion to update the Manuals as it sees fit, as long as it believes the changes are beneficial.
Franchisees are required to comply with these revised mandatory System Standards within 30 days after Body20 transmits the updates, unless Body20 specifies a different timeframe. This places the onus on the franchisee to stay informed of any changes and to implement them promptly to remain compliant with the franchise agreement. If there is a dispute about the contents of the manuals, the master copy maintained at Body20 headquarters will control.