What are some of the criteria Checkersrallys uses to approve or disapprove a proposed site for a restaurant?
Checkersrallys Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
veloping 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.
Before you acquire, by lease or purchase, any site for your Restaurant, you must submit a franchise site package to us in the form, content and substance as we then require. We will review each site package and determine whether to accept or reject the site after considering factors we deem appropriate, including the general location and neighborhood, demographic information, traffic patterns, access, visibility, location of other restaurants and food establishments, and size, configuration, appearance and other physical characteristics of the site. We will use reasonable efforts to approve or disapprove the proposed site within 30 days after receiving your written proposal. Upon our approval of a site, we will insert the address into Exhibit B of the Franchise Agreement, and it will be the Premises.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 46–57)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Checkersrallys's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the company has specific criteria for site selection. If a franchisee suggests a location that Checkersrallys approves either before or when the Franchise Agreement is signed, that location will be written into the agreement. If a location isn't agreed upon before signing, the franchisee has 180 days from the agreement date to find a site within a designated area and submit it for approval.
Checkersrallys will either approve or disapprove the proposed site based on its general criteria. These criteria include demographic characteristics, traffic patterns, parking availability, the character of the neighborhood, competition from other businesses (including their proximity and nature), and the site's size, appearance, and other physical and commercial characteristics. Checkersrallys states that it will make reasonable efforts to help analyze the market area and determine site feasibility, but the franchisee is responsible for site selection activities.
Before a franchisee can acquire a site (either by lease or purchase), they must submit a franchise site package to Checkersrallys. Checkersrallys will review the package and decide whether to accept or reject the site, considering factors such as the general location, neighborhood, demographic information, traffic patterns, access, visibility, the location of other food establishments, and the site's physical characteristics like size, configuration, and appearance. Checkersrallys aims to approve or disapprove the site within 30 days of receiving the written proposal. If the site is approved, the address will be added to the Franchise Agreement.
After Checkersrallys approves a site, the franchisee has 60 days to provide a copy of the fully signed lease, sublease, or purchase contract, along with a franchise addendum to the lease agreement. Franchisees are then responsible for applying for all necessary government approvals and permits to develop the site within 60 days of signing the lease or purchase agreement. Construction or installation must be completed within 180 days of receiving all government approvals and permits, and the restaurant must open within 14 days after construction is finished (or 19 days if the franchisee received training support).