Does Carls offer franchises for i9 Sports, and if so, when did Carls begin offering these franchises?

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The restaurant business, including the quick service segment, is highly competitive. You will be competing with other quick service restaurants, including national and regional restaurant chains, fastcasual restaurants, full-service casual-dining restaurants, budget restaurants, health and nutrition-oriented restaurants, delicatessens and prepared food restaurants, take-out food service companies, supermarkets, coffee shops and convenience stores. The ability of each Carl's Jr. Restaurant to compete depends on its location, ingress and egress, signage, parking, service, employee attitudes, overhead, changing local market and economic conditions and many other factors both within and outside your control.

The Franchisor and Its Predecessor. CJR is a Delaware limited liability company organized on January 30, 2013. Our principal place of business is 6700 Tower Circle, Suite 1000, Franklin, Tennessee 37067. Our agents for service of process in various states are listed in Exhibit B. We do business under the name "Carl's Jr.". We have operated and offered franchises for Carl's Jr. Restaurants since April 1, 2013. As of January 29, 2024, there were 49 company-operated Carl's Jr. restaurants and there were 1,014 domestic franchised Carl's Jr. restaurants, including 262 Dual Concept restaurants. Dual Concept Restaurants are quick service Carl's Jr. restaurants that also offer Green Burrito Mexican food products. In addition, as of January 29, 2024, there were the following international franchised Carl's Jr. Restaurants: American Samoa – 1; Australia – 47; Cambodia – 6; Canada – 20; Chile – 22; Denmark – 16; Dominican Republic – 1; Ecuador – 24; France – 7; Guatemala – 3; India – 4; Japan – 4; Malaysia – 6; Mexico – 377; New Zealand – 17; Nicaragua – 3; Panama – 10; People's Republic of China – 3; Puerto Rico – 2; Russia – 17; Singapore – 5; Spain – 44; Switzerland – 1; and Turkey – 22. (We consider American Samoa and Puerto Rico to be international locations even though they are U.S. territories.) We do not engage in any other business or offer franchises in any other line of business.

Our predecessor is Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc., a California corporation incorporated on February 7, 1966, whose principal place of business was 6307 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria, California 93013. On March 26, 2013, it was converted from a corporation to a limited liability company, Carl Karcher Enterprises LLC, a Delaware limited liability company formed on February 25, 2013. Effective October 7, 2013, Carl Karcher Enterprises LLC was converted to a California limited liability company. Carl Karcher Enterprises LLC has the same principal place of business as ours. (Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc. and Carl Karcher Enterprises LLC will be collectively referred to in this disclosure document as "CKE".) CKE operated Carl's Jr. Restaurants from 1966 until March 31, 2013. CKE also offered franchises for Carl's Jr. Restaurants from 1984 until March 31, 2013. From 1997 to 1998, CKE also offered franchises to operate Carl's Jr./Hardee's Dual Concept Restaurants. CKE has not engaged in any other business or offered franchises in any other line of business.

Source: Item 1 — THE FRANCHISOR, AND ANY PARENTS, PREDECESSORS, AND AFFILIATES (FDD pages 7–19)