What core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies does Chesters supply?
Chesters Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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We encourage you to purchase new equipment and fixtures for the Restaurant. We currently are the designated supplier for certain core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies (fryers, breading and batter table, hot display case, landing table, and oil-removal caddy) approved for use in the Restaurant. We currently sell the core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies at a bona fide wholesale price we set from time to time based in part on our current cost. If you obtain financing for core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies through Ascentium (see Item 10), the purchase price for core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies will be our then current bona fide wholesale price plus an additional 5% to 10% of the purchase price, which is roughly equivalent to the amount that Ascentium will deduct from their payment to us for the core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies as part of our arrangement to reduce the interest rate for the financing you obtain through Ascentium. See Item 10.
In limited circumstances, however, we may allow you to purchase the core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies from another designated supplier. We are also an approved (but not the only) supplier for other equipment and fixtures, which are also available through designated suppliers. While we encourage you to purchase new equipment and fixtures, you can purchase used equipment (which need not be purchased from an approved supplier) if it has been in service for less than 2 years and otherwise meets our quality standards. Besides the items described above, we also currently are an approved (but not the only) supplier of marketing materials. Except for us, in which our officers indirectly owns an interest, one of our officers owns a non-controlling interest in Wynn's Grain and Spice, LLC, which currently manufactures various consumables and sells those items to us for resale to our franchisees (indirectly through unaffiliated third-party distributors and grocery wholesalers).
The cost of food items, ingredients, equipment, furnishings, supplies, materials, and other items may vary among Restaurants.
Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (FDD pages 19–22)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Chesters's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Chesters is a designated supplier for certain core equipment, signage, fixtures, and supplies approved for use in the restaurant. These items include fryers, breading and batter tables, hot display cases, landing tables, and oil-removal caddies.
Chesters sells these core items at a bona fide wholesale price, which they set based on their current costs. However, if a franchisee obtains financing for these items through Ascentium, the purchase price will include an additional 5% to 10% on top of the wholesale price. This additional charge is to offset the amount Ascentium deducts from their payment to Chesters as part of an arrangement to reduce the interest rate for the franchisee's financing.
In some cases, Chesters may allow franchisees to purchase these core items from another designated supplier. Chesters is also an approved supplier for other equipment and fixtures, which are available through designated suppliers as well. While new equipment is encouraged, franchisees can purchase used equipment that is less than two years old and meets Chesters' quality standards, regardless of the supplier. Chesters is also an approved supplier of marketing materials. One of Chesters' officers has a non-controlling interest in Wynn's Grain and Spice, LLC, which manufactures various consumables and sells them to Chesters for resale to franchisees through third-party distributors and grocery wholesalers.