For Cinnabon, who is included in the definition of 'Required Trainees'?
Cinnabon Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
g Program periodically and permit you to register for an available program. Training programs are subject to space and time availability. All or certain portions of the Management Training Program may, in our discretion, be conducted online or in person at (i)
our corporate headquarters, (ii) a Franchised Business that we designate that has been certified by us as an authorized training facility (a "Certified Training Location"), and/or (iii) other locations authorized by us. Your trainees may not attend the Management Training Program until (a) you have provided us with your fully signed Lease (if required) in a form that we have approved, (b) your Franchised Business is under construction, (c) you have provided us with evidence of the insurance that is required under your Franchise Agreement, and (d) you are within the eligible training period specified on Schedule A.
- D. Completion of Training. All of your Required Trainees must successfully complete our Management Training Program at least one week prior to the scheduled opening date of the Franchised Business. If your opening date changes and your required Trainees completed our Management Training Program more than 120 days before the revised opening date, we may require them to attend up to an additional week of training and may require you to pay our thencurrent daily training fee for each Required Trainee, which is currently $250 per trainee per day and may be increased in any year by no more than the Allowed Adjustment. We have the right in our reasonable discretion to determine whether a trainee has successfully completed the Management Training Program. If we conclude that a Required Trainee has failed to successfully complete the Management Training Program, that Required Trainee must re-enroll in our next scheduled applicable Management Training Program at no additional charge.
Source: Item 23 — Receipts (FDD pages 114–399)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Cinnabon Franchise Disclosure Document, 'Required Trainees' must successfully complete the Management Training Program at least one week before the scheduled opening date of the Franchised Business. If the opening date changes and the required trainees completed the Management Training Program more than 120 days before the revised opening date, Cinnabon may require them to attend up to an additional week of training. Cinnabon also has the right to determine whether a trainee has successfully completed the Management Training Program.
If Cinnabon concludes that a required trainee has failed to successfully complete the Management Training Program, that required trainee must re-enroll in the next scheduled applicable Management Training Program at no additional charge. However, Cinnabon has the right to terminate the Franchise Agreement if, following the Management Training Program and re-enrollment training (if any), none of the required trainees has successfully completed the Management Training Program.
Furthermore, any Managers, Primary Contacts, Directors of Operations that the franchisee hires or appoints after the opening of the Franchised Business, and any other persons Cinnabon designates as "Subsequent Trainees" must attend and successfully complete the Management Training Program (or a modified version that Cinnabon prescribes) before becoming involved in the operation of the Franchised Business. Cinnabon may also require employees that transfer to the franchisee's Franchised Business from another Business to successfully complete the Management Training Program again.