Can Crepe De Licious affiliates offer optional purchasing assistance to franchisees?

pecify approved items and services, and restrict the suppliers authorized to sell or provide certain items and services in order to control quality, provide for consistent service or obtain volume discounts. We will provide you with System Standards for items and services, our list of approved items and services, and our list of approved suppliers. You acknowledge that we and/or our affiliates may be the sole approved suppliers for certain approved items and services, and that we and our affiliates may derive revenues as a result of your purchase of approved items and services either from us or from rebates from suppliers.

• 7.08 Initial Training. We will provide initial training to you, your initial Manager and one other person on mutually convenient dates. All initial training we provide will be offered, in our sole discretion, at a Restaurant, Kiosk, or Food Truck operated by a franchisee or an affiliate, at our training facility, or at some other location in the United States we select, and will be subject to the provisions of Section 6.02. If you would like additional people to attend the initial training program and we have additional capacity, you will be charged an additional fee of $2,000 per person. You will also need to pay for the cost of travel, room and board, and other personal expenses for each person attending.
• 7.09 Other Training. We may in the future offer or require additional or refresher training for you or your Designated Manager.

Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 57)