Who is required to attend and successfully complete the initial training program for a Brueggers Bagels franchise?
Brueggers_Bagels Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
ystem franchisees (the "Initial Training Program"). We will also provide the ongoing training that we periodically deem appropriate, at such places and times that we deem proper. Our training programs will be conducted in the English language. We will be responsible for the cost of instruction and materials (except as set forth in Section 7.2.4 below).
- 7.2. Your Training and Personnel Obligations. Before opening the Bakery, you (or, if Franchisee is an entity, your Operating Partner) and up to one full-time general manager responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Bakery (the "Store Manager") must attend and successfully complete, to our satisfaction, the initial training program we offer.
- 7.2.1. The term "Certified Manager" is agreed to mean: (a) you (or the Operating Partner); (b) the Store Manager; and (c) additional managers of the Bakery who have successfully completed (to our satisfaction) our initial training program. The Store Manager must have at least three (3) years of experience working in a management capacity in a quick service restaurant or fast casual restaurant, and the Store Manager may serve as the Operating Partner.
- 7.2.2. You may send up to two (2) individuals (including the Certified Managers) to the initial training program. If you ask to send more than two (2) individuals to the initial trainin
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 61)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Brueggers Bagels' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, before opening a bakery, the franchisee (or the Operating Partner if the franchisee is an entity) and one full-time general manager responsible for the bakery's day-to-day operations, referred to as the "Store Manager", must attend and successfully complete the initial training program to the franchisor's satisfaction.
The Store Manager must have at least three years of experience working in a management capacity in a quick service or fast casual restaurant and may also serve as the Operating Partner. Brueggers Bagels defines a "Certified Manager" as the franchisee (or Operating Partner), the Store Manager, and any additional managers who have successfully completed the initial training program.
Brueggers Bagels allows franchisees to send up to two individuals, including the Certified Managers, to the initial training program. If a franchisee wants to send more than two individuals, they must pay a training fee of $1,600 for each additional person before the training begins. The bakery must be under the active, full-time management of either the Operating Partner or a Certified Manager.