How will Bumble Roofing communicate the disapproval of a service or product?
Bumble_Roofing Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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You must provide specified services and use and sell specified products. The services include restoring, repairing, replacing and maintaining residential, commercial and industrial roofs ("Services"). The products include all supplies, materials and equipment sold, prepared or otherwise dealt with in connection with a Roofing Business ("Products"). We reserve the right to require that you sell additional or different Services and Products in your Roofing Business on 30 days' prior written notice to you. You must provide the Services and sell the Products per our specifications and standards. We reserve the right to change standards and specifications on 30 days prior written notice to you.
We have standards and specifications for your Products, Services, equipment, tools, office, vehicle, uniforms, inventory, supplies, forms, advertising materials, computer hardware and software, accounting systems, bookkeeping service, and/or other services and products used in, sold or provided through your Roofing Business ("Required Items"). We will notify you of our specifications and standards. To maintain our standards of consistent, high-quality products, customer recognition, advertising support, value and uniformity in Roofing Business, we may require you to purchase or lease some or all Required Items per our specifications and standards. We also reserve the right to require you to purchase any Required Items only from our designated or approved suppliers. The term "suppliers," also includes vendors, manufacturers and distributors. We have also identified a number of preferred, but not required, suppliers for other Required Items.
Source: Item 16 — RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT THE FRANCHISEE MAY SELL (FDD pages 42–43)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
Based on the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Bumble Roofing reserves the right to require franchisees to sell additional or different services and products in their roofing business. Bumble Roofing will provide 30 days prior written notice to franchisees when they want them to sell additional or different services and products.
Bumble Roofing has standards and specifications for products, services, equipment, tools, office, vehicle, uniforms, inventory, supplies, forms, advertising materials, computer hardware and software, accounting systems, bookkeeping service, and other services and products used in, sold, or provided through the roofing business. Bumble Roofing will notify franchisees of their specifications and standards.
If a franchisee desires not to offer or sell new services or products, they can demonstrate to Bumble Roofing's reasonable satisfaction that a substantial capital improvement not contemplated by the agreement or in the manual is required, resulting in a material hardship to a majority of Bumble Roofing franchisees, or a material reduction in a majority of Bumble Roofing franchisees' sales or profitability would result therefrom.