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ITEM 10 FINANCING

Neither we nor any of our agents or affiliates offer direct or indirect financing to you or guarantee any of your notes, leases or obligations.

ITEM 11 FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING

Except as listed below, we are not required to provide you with any assistance.

CJR's Pre-Opening Obligations

Before you open your Franchised Restaurant, we will:

• 1. Provide you with the following site selection assistance: (A) CJR's site selection guidelines and, as you may request, a reasonable amount of consultation with respect thereto; and (B) such on-site evaluation as we may deem advisable as part of our evaluation of your request for site acceptance. (Development Agreement, § 5.B and Franchise Agreement § 4.B.)
• 2. We will advise you in writing within 45 days after receipt of all documents that we require whether we have accepted a particular site; however, we have no obligation to review any development proposal if you or your affiliates are not in full compliance with all agreements with us or our affiliates. If we do not respond within that time period, we will be deemed not to have accepted the site. (Development Agreement, § 5.D and Franchise Agreement § 4.D.)
• 3. Provide you with any training we require. (Development Agreement, § 5.F.; Franchise Agreement, §6.A. & 6.I.)
• 4. Provide you electronic access to CJR's Development Guide and OPM, which contain mandatory specifications and standards relating to construction of Carl's Jr. Restaurants and information relating to your other obligations under the Development Agreement and Franchise Agreement. (Development Agreement, § 6; Franchise Agreement, §9)

5. Furnish you with prototypical plans and specifications for a Carl's Jr. Restaurant, including requirements for dimensions, design image, interior layout, décor, fixtures, equipment, signs, furnishings, storefront and color scheme. (Development Agreement, § 6). It will be your responsibility to have prepared all required construction plans and specifications to suit the shape and dimensions of the location of your Franchised Restaurant ("Franchised Location"), and you must ensure that these plans and specifications comply with applicable ordinances, building codes and permit requirements and with lease requirements and restrictions. You must use only registered architects, registered engineers, and professional and licensed contractors.

We will review the construction plans for the proposed Franchised Restaurant and notify you within 30 days after we receive the plans, or such longer period as we require, whether the plans are approved. (Franchise Agreement, §4.B.).

• 6. Provide you with a final inspection of the Franchised Restaurant, if we choose to conduct one, and provide you with express written authorization to open the Franchised Restaurant if you have complied with all conditions. (Franchise Agreement, §4.K.)
• 7. Provide you electronic access to our confidential and proprietary OPM, which contains information and knowledge that is unique, necessary and material to the Carl's Jr. System. The OPM remains our property. We may revise the contents of the OPM and you agree to comply with each new or changed section. (Franchise Agreement, §9). We will permit you to inspect a copy of the OPM before you purchase a franchise, if you first sign a Confidentiality Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit F.
• 8. Provide you with consultation and advice at no additional cost with regard to construction or renovation and operation of the Franchised Restaurant, building layout, furnishings, fixtures and equipment plans and specifications, training, purchasing and inventory control and those other matters as we deem appropriate.

Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 42–55)