What specific menu items and services is a Bonchon franchisee required to offer for sale in their business?
Bonchon Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You must offer for sale in your Business all menu items and services we specify, and only those menu items and services we specify. You must purchase proprietary and other designated products (currently Bonchon logoed packaging items, logo-imprinted paper goods, cooking utensils, sweet sugar, brushes, and our proprietary sauces, seasonings and spice blends) from the source that we designate. Currently, our designated supplier, Sysco Foodservice, is the only approved supplier of our (i) proprietary sauce (including any "limited time only sauce" that we may promote from time to time) and (ii) Bonchon logoed packaging items, but we may change the designated supplier(s) of our proprietary sauce and logoed packaging items from time to time in our Confidential Operations Manual. Bonchon LLC is currently the only approved supplier of the other designated products you are required to purchase. You must purchase all other menu items, ingredients, condiments, inventory, signs, furnishings, supplies (including, cleaning supplies), fixtures and equipment from our designated or approved suppliers.
Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (FDD pages 37–42)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Bonchon's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees must offer all menu items and services that Bonchon specifies. They are restricted to selling only those items and services that Bonchon designates.
Franchisees are required to purchase proprietary and other designated products from Bonchon's designated sources. These products include Bonchon logoed packaging items, logo-imprinted paper goods, cooking utensils, sweet sugar, brushes, and Bonchon's proprietary sauces, seasonings, and spice blends. Sysco Foodservice is the only approved supplier of Bonchon's proprietary sauce (including any "limited time only sauce") and Bonchon logoed packaging items. Bonchon LLC is the only approved supplier of the other designated products franchisees are required to purchase.
Bonchon franchisees must also exclusively purchase and serve non-alcoholic beverages licensed by Pepsi-Cola and/or by the Pepsi/Lipton Tea Partnership. Franchisees must also exclusively use Olo online ordering services and pay Olo a monthly service fee of $239, which includes the kiosks that franchisees will be required to use with the NRO Kits. Franchisees must participate in any special promotional programs that Bonchon develops and implement, including purchasing and maintaining an inventory of promotional products, such as limited time only proprietary sauces.