If a Non-Traditional Site becomes available within the Development Area, is Crave obligated to offer the franchisee the opportunity to develop a Crave Restaurant or Food Truck at the site?
Crave Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
If a Non-Traditional Site becomes available within the Development Area during the term of the Multi-Unit Development Agreement, we may, in our sole discretion, offer you the opportunity to develop a Restaurant or Food Truck at the Non-Traditional Site. You will have 30 days after we notify you that the site is available to accept this right of first refusal.
After the final Franchised Business under your Minimum Performance Schedule has opened, if we believe that it is desirable to establish additional Franchised Businesses within the Development Area, and if you complied with the terms of your Multi-Unit Development Agreement and are in compliance with your Franchise Agreements, we will offer you the right to develop these additional Franchised Businesses. You must exercise this option, in full, within 60 days of our notice to you. If you do not exercise or you decline this right of first refusal, we will have the right to sell these development rights to another multiunit developer or to develop the Restaurants or Food Trucks ourselves.
Source: Item 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 42–46)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Crave's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, if a Non-Traditional Site becomes available within the Development Area during the term of the Multi-Unit Development Agreement, Crave has the discretion to offer the franchisee the opportunity to develop a Restaurant or Food Truck at that site. Crave is not obligated to offer the franchisee the opportunity.
If Crave chooses to offer this opportunity, the franchisee has 30 days from the notification date to accept the right of first refusal. This means a franchisee needs to be prepared to act quickly if a potentially valuable Non-Traditional Site becomes available.
After the franchisee has opened the final Franchised Business under the Minimum Performance Schedule, Crave may offer the franchisee the right to develop additional Franchised Businesses within the Development Area if Crave believes it is desirable to establish additional Franchised Businesses. To be eligible, the franchisee must have complied with the terms of the Multi-Unit Development Agreement and be in compliance with the Franchise Agreements. The franchisee has 60 days to exercise this option fully. If the franchisee declines or does not exercise this right, Crave can sell the development rights to another multiunit developer or develop the Restaurants or Food Trucks themselves.