Does Burneys Sweets More offer assistance in locating a site for my Burneys Sweets More franchise?
Burneys_Sweets_More Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Site Selection. It is your responsibility to select and outfit your own location. We are not required to provide or assist you in locating a site or obtaining your business premises. However, if requested, we will advise you on recommended locations, remodeling of the premises, and the purchase or lease of equipment, signs, and fixtures. We must accept the site location and the lease if you do not own the premises. Our determination to accept or reject a site may be based on various criteria, including but not limited to business count, traffic count, accessibility, parking, visibility, competition, and license availability. You must send us all information we require for the proposed site. Generally, we accept or reject a site within 30 days of receiving the request. In the event we do not accept a proposed site by written notice to you within said 30 days such site shall be deemed rejected by us. It is your responsibility to ensure that your premises conforms to local ordinances and building codes as well as to obtain any required permits. It is also your responsibility to construct, remodel and decorate the premises. If you fail to execute a lease or purchase contract for the site within a reasonable amount of time after our acceptance of the site, we reserve the right to refer it to another franchise applicant or develop it as a company-owned business. If you fail to select a site that we accept and begin operation within 12 months, you will be in default under the franchise agreement and we may, in our sole discretion: (1) allow more time; or (2) terminate your franchise agreement without any refund to you. (Franchise Agreement Section 6(a))
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 25–33)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Burneys Sweets More's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are primarily responsible for selecting their own site. Burneys Sweets More is not required to provide or assist in locating a site or obtaining business premises. However, if a franchisee requests it, Burneys Sweets More will advise on recommended locations, remodeling of the premises, and the purchase or lease of equipment, signs, and fixtures. Burneys Sweets More must formally accept the site location and the lease if the franchisee does not own the premises.
Burneys Sweets More's determination to accept or reject a site may be based on various criteria, including but not limited to business count, traffic count, accessibility, parking, visibility, competition, and license availability. The franchisee must send all required information for the proposed site. Generally, Burneys Sweets More will accept or reject a site within 30 days of receiving the request. If Burneys Sweets More does not reject a proposed site by written notice within 30 days, the site is deemed rejected.
It is the franchisee's responsibility to ensure that the premises conforms to local ordinances and building codes and to obtain any required permits. The franchisee is also responsible for constructing, remodeling, and decorating the premises. Burneys Sweets More reserves the right to refer the site to another franchise applicant or develop it as a company-owned business if the franchisee fails to execute a lease or purchase contract for the site within a reasonable time after Burneys Sweets More's acceptance of the site. If a franchisee fails to select a site that Burneys Sweets More accepts and begin operation within 12 months, the franchisee will be in default under the franchise agreement, and Burneys Sweets More may either allow more time or terminate the franchise agreement without any refund.