For a Chesters Restaurant-in-Store franchise, where will the restaurant operate?
Chesters Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
location.
If you operate a Restaurant-in-Store franchise, you will operate your Restaurant within your existing business premises. If you will operate a food court/strip mall franchise or other non-traditional franchise (such as at a sports arena or stadium), you will operate your Restaurant from a site you lease in a food court, strip mall, sports arena, or stadium. We have the right to terminate the Agreement if you fail to open the Restaurant within 180 days after the Agreement's effective date. You have the right to operate only from the accepted location and have no right to relocate within your existing business premises or elsewhere without our prior written permission. Whether we will permit relocation depends on the specific circumstances and what we consider to be in your Restaurant's and our system's best interests. We do not expect relocation to occur often because the Restaurant typically is located in your existing business premises. You are not
restricted from advertising away from your location if all sales are made at the location. You have the right, with our prior written approval, to solicit sales and orders from your franchised location for delivery to a remote location (including catering). You have no right to use other channels of distribution to make sales away from your location (such as the Internet, catalog sales, telemarketing, or other direct marketing sales) or in any territory.
Source: Item 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 29–31)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Chesters's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, a Restaurant-in-Store franchise will operate within the franchisee's existing business premises. Chesters also offers food court/strip mall franchises or other non-traditional franchises (such as at a sports arena or stadium), which will operate from a site the franchisee leases in such a venue.
Chesters requires the franchisee to open the Restaurant within 180 days after the franchise agreement's effective date. The franchisee is restricted to operating only from the accepted location and cannot relocate without Chesters's prior written permission. Chesters states that relocation is not expected to occur often because the Restaurant typically is located in the franchisee's existing business premises.
While franchisees are restricted from using other channels of distribution to make sales away from their location, they are not restricted from advertising away from their location if all sales are made at the location. With Chesters's prior written approval, franchisees can solicit sales and orders from their franchised location for delivery to a remote location, including catering.