Does Chesters have the right to change required services for Chesters restaurants?
Chesters Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You must offer and sell all menu items and products, and perform all services, we periodically require for CHESTER'S Restaurants operated at your type of location. You have no right to offer or sell any menu items or products, or perform any services, we have not authorized. We have the right periodically to change required and/or authorized menu items and services and equipment specifications (including required use of our designated POS system). There are no limits on our right to do so. Once a menu item, product, or service has become unauthorized, your Restaurant no longer may offer or sell it. You must operate the Restaurant in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and regulations. You are not limited in the customers with whom the Restaurant does business from its premises.
Source: Item 16 — RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT THE FRANCHISEE MAY SELL (FDD page 35)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Chesters's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Chesters has the right to periodically change the required services for its restaurants. As a franchisee, you must offer and sell all menu items and products, and perform all services that Chesters periodically requires for restaurants operated at your location type. You are not allowed to offer or sell any menu items or products, or perform any services, that have not been authorized by Chesters.
Chesters retains the right to periodically change required and/or authorized menu items and services and equipment specifications, including the required use of their designated POS system. There are no limits on Chesters's right to make these changes. Once a menu item, product, or service is no longer authorized, your restaurant is prohibited from offering or selling it.
This means that as a Chesters franchisee, you must stay updated on any changes to the menu, services, or equipment requirements and promptly implement those changes in your restaurant. Failure to comply with these changes could result in a breach of the franchise agreement. This level of control is typical in franchising, allowing the franchisor to maintain brand consistency and quality across all locations.