Did Card My Yard, LLC operate a Card My Yard business before the current franchisor?
Card_My_Yard Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Each Card My Yard franchise location conducts business under the trade name and trademark "Card My Yard". We do not own or operate any Card My Yard businesses, but our affiliate and Predecessor, Card My Yard, LLC, operated a Card My Yard business in Austin, Texas from September 2014 through September 2020, and our Parent began operating the "company-owned" Card My Yard business in Austin as of October 1, 2020. Effective October 1, 2020, Card My Yard, LLC changed its name to Joy Works, LLC. Joy Works, LLC does not currently operate any Card My Yard businesses, does not offer franchises of any kind, and does not conduct other business activities.
We began offering franchises for Card My Yard businesses in October 2020, and our Predecessor offered Card My Yard franchises from June 2017 to September 2020 under its own disclosure document. Our Predecessor has not engaged in any other business activities besides offering and supporting franchises for Card My Yard businesses, and it has never offered franchises in any other lines of business.
Source: Item 1 — THE FRANCHISOR, AND ANY PARENTS, PREDECESSORS AND AFFILIATES (FDD pages 9–13)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Card My Yard's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Card My Yard, LLC, an affiliate and Predecessor, operated a Card My Yard business in Austin, Texas, from September 2014 through September 2020. The current franchisor, CMY Franchising, LLC, did not operate a Card My Yard business before offering franchises.
Effective October 1, 2020, Card My Yard, LLC, changed its name to Joy Works, LLC. Joy Works, LLC, does not currently operate any Card My Yard businesses, offer franchises, or conduct other business activities. The franchisor began offering franchises for Card My Yard businesses in October 2020, while the Predecessor offered Card My Yard franchises from June 2017 to September 2020 under its own disclosure document.
CMY Franchising, LLC, acquired the assets, franchise agreements, trademarks, service marks, and other intellectual property of the Card My Yard franchise system from its Predecessor, Card My Yard Franchising, LLC, and Card My Yard, LLC, on October 1, 2020. This means that the current franchisor built its franchise system on an existing business and franchise model.