How do company-owned Body Brain Center locations contribute to the advertising fund?

According to Body Brain Center's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, company-owned locations contribute to the advertising fund in the same way as franchised locations. Specifically, both company-owned Body & Brain Centers and home-based businesses contribute to the advertising fund based on the same percentage of Program Sales as franchisees.

This means that Body Brain Center itself, when operating its own locations, is subject to the same advertising fund obligations as its franchisees. This arrangement aims to ensure that all locations, whether franchised or company-owned, contribute proportionally to the advertising fund, which is used for marketing and promotional activities to benefit the entire Body Brain Center system.

However, the document also notes that Body Brain Center reserves the right to modify the amount or timing of contributions to the advertising fund for company-owned locations established or acquired after such modifications. This implies that while the general principle of contribution parity exists, Body Brain Center retains some flexibility in adjusting the contribution terms for its own locations in the future, potentially creating a discrepancy between the contribution obligations of franchised and company-owned locations.