Are the legal, accounting, and other fees incurred for reviewing the Brueggers Bagels Development Agreement refundable?

Explanatory Notes – Development Agreement:

• (1) You may incur additional legal, accounting and other fees for reviewing the Development Agreement. The table does not include an estimate for this. Except as indicated, these fees are not refundable. We do not finance your investment.
• (2) For each Bakery you develop under the Development Agreement, you will also incur the expenses in the above tables for a Franchised Bakery or Licensed Bakery, including initial fees.
• (3). This is the initial fee total for all Franchised Bakeries established under a Development Agreement. There are no additional initial fee amounts relevant to a Development Agreement, aside from the initial fees due under a Franchise Agreement or License Agreement for each Bakery to be developed, as noted in Note 2 above.

The amounts noted in Item 7 as payable to us are not refundable. We cannot predict (and encourage you to consider) the implications of public policy on inflation, tariff rates, impact of climate change, and commodity and other cost fluctuation due to immigration restrictions.

Source: Item 7 — ESTIMATED INITIAL INVESTMENT (FDD pages 18–25)