Can a Managing Owner manage more than one Cool Binz Business?
Cool_Binz Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You must at all times faithfully, honestly, and diligently perform your obligations under this Agreement. Except as stated herein, you must designate at least one managing owner (the "Managing Owner") who will be our primary individual contact with the COOL BINZ Business and who we will approve in our sole discretion. A Managing Owner may, in our sole discretion, serve as the Managing Owner of more than one COOL BINZ Business that is owned by you; provided, however, that we may, in our sole discretion, require you to designate a person who will serve as the primary individual contact for this COOL BINZ Business (the "Designated Manager"). We must approve of the Designated Manager in writing, which we may grant in our sole discretion. The Managing Owner and, if applicable, the Designated Manager, must successfully complete our JumpStart and Initial Training Programs as described in and required by the Franchise Agreement. The Designated Manager is not required to have an ownership interest in the COOL BINZ Business. The Managing Owner or, if applicable, the Designated Manager must continuously exert her/his full-time best efforts to manage, promote and enhance the COOL BINZ Business, and such other COOL BINZ Businesses as we permit in our sole discretion. Without our prior written permission, the Managing Owner and, if applicable, the Designated Manager, must not engage in any other business or activity that conflicts with their obligations to operate the COOL BINZ Business on a full-time, year round basis. In the case of
multiple owners, the owner with day-to-day responsibility and authority to run the COOL BINZ Business and with whom we will communicate shall be identified on the signature line as the first Managing Owner.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 63–238)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Cool Binz's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, a Managing Owner can manage more than one Cool Binz Business at the franchisor's discretion. The document states that the franchisor has the sole discretion to allow a Managing Owner to oversee multiple Cool Binz Businesses owned by the same franchisee. However, Cool Binz also retains the right to require the franchisee to designate a separate individual, known as a Designated Manager, to serve as the primary contact for a specific Cool Binz Business.
The Designated Manager, unlike the Managing Owner, is not required to have an ownership stake in the Cool Binz Business. Both the Managing Owner and the Designated Manager (if applicable) must complete the initial training programs. The Managing Owner or Designated Manager is expected to dedicate their full-time efforts to managing, promoting, and enhancing the Cool Binz Business, as well as any other Cool Binz Businesses that the franchisor permits them to oversee.
Without prior written permission from Cool Binz, neither the Managing Owner nor the Designated Manager can engage in any other business or activity that would conflict with their obligations to operate the Cool Binz Business on a full-time, year-round basis. In cases where there are multiple owners, the owner with the primary responsibility and authority for running the Cool Binz Business will be identified as the Managing Owner.