Does Checkers conduct site selection activities for the franchisee?
Checkers Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
We will provide guidance to you in locating and developing the Franchised Restaurant as we deem appropriate. (Franchise Agreement, Sections 3.02 and 3.03);
If you have suggested a location for the Franchised Restaurant which we approve before or concurrently with the execution of the Franchise Agreement, the location will be identified in the Franchise Agreement. If we and you have not agreed upon an approved location for the Franchised Restaurant before signing the Franchise Agreement, then you must select a site for the Franchised Restaurant within the geographic area we designate ("Designated Area"). You must, within 180 days after the date of the Franchise Agreement, locate and submit for our approval a site acceptable to us within the Designated Area for the Franchised Restaurant. We will approve or disapprove each site that you propose according to our general criteria for selection of a Checkers Restaurant or Rally's Restaurant site. The site must meet our criteria for demographic characteristics; traffic patterns; parking; character of neighborhood; competition from, proximity to, and nature of other businesses; size; appearance; and other physical and commercial characteristics. We will use reasonable efforts to help analyze your market area, to help determine site feasibility, and to assist in designating the location, although we will not conduct site selection activities for you. We will provide you with our standard site selection criteria and on-site evaluations of sites, as we deem appropriate. If you enter into a Development Agreement with us, you must select sites within your specified Development Area and we will approve them in accordance with our then current criteria for selection of a Checkers Restaurant or Rally's Restaurant site.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 46–57)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Checkers' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Checkers provides guidance in locating and developing the franchised restaurant as they deem appropriate. However, Checkers does not conduct site selection activities for the franchisee.
If a franchisee suggests a location that Checkers approves before or during the signing of the Franchise Agreement, the location will be identified in the agreement. If a location isn't agreed upon before signing, the franchisee must select a site within a designated geographic area. The franchisee has 180 days from the date of the Franchise Agreement to find and submit a site for Checkers' approval.
Checkers will either approve or disapprove the proposed site based on their general criteria, which includes demographic characteristics, traffic patterns, parking, neighborhood character, competition, proximity to other businesses, size, appearance, and other physical and commercial characteristics. Checkers will make reasonable efforts to help analyze the market area and determine site feasibility, and will provide standard site selection criteria and on-site evaluations as deemed appropriate.