Is there a fee associated with the initial training program for a Body Brain Center manager?
Body_Brain_Center Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
o attending training, you must pay us an initial training fee of $10,000 (the "Training Fee"), which we will credit against your initial training fee owed if you sign a Franchise Agreement before the expiration of the Franchise Evaluation Period (defined below). We will promptly refund the training fee if you notify us that you will not attend the franchise initial training program before the training program begins. The Training Fee is not refundable under any other circumstances. If you plan to hire a "manager" to operate one of your Body & Brain Centers, you must pay a separate $10,000 training fee for each such manager who attends our training program.
- 4 SIGNING OF FRANCHISE AGREEMENT. If you successfully complete training, you will have a period of 180 days after completion of the training program (the "Franchise Evaluation Period") to sign the Franchise Agreement that we previously offered to you. If either (i) you fail to sign the Franchise Agreement on or prior to the expiration of the Franchise Evaluation Period or (ii) you fail to successfully complete the training program, we shall have no obligation to offer you a franchise and we may keep the training fee in consideration of the training we provided to you. Further, if you do not sign the Franchise Agreement or you fail to successfully complete the training program, you understand that you must still comply with all of the terms of this Agreement.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPT (FDD pages 43–178)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Body Brain Center's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, there is a mandatory initial training program for all owners and managers, and fees are associated with this training. Specifically, if a franchisee plans to hire a manager to operate a Body & Brain Center, they must pay a separate $10,000 training fee for each manager who attends the initial training program. This fee is due before the training begins.
In addition to the initial training fee, the franchisee is responsible for all food, lodging, and travel costs that their owners and managers incur while attending any training program, workshop, or conference. There is also a $400 retraining fee for any person who must retake training after failing to successfully complete initial training on a prior attempt.
Body & Brain Center also offers optional periodic training programs, and if a franchisee chooses to attend these, they must pay a training fee of up to $150 per hour. If Body & Brain Center agrees to travel to provide any training, the franchisee must reimburse them for all costs incurred for food, lodging, and travel. Furthermore, Body & Brain Center may hold periodic national conferences, and a franchisee may be charged a conference registration fee of $100 per day per person who attends.