Who is the Deck Medic training program to be attended by?
Deck_Medic Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
initial training program. (Franchise Agreement, Article 4). Our current training program is to be attended by you, or if you are a
Corporate Entity, your Managing Owner and one Operating Manager at our training facility located in Frankfort, Illinois, at your location or other location designated by us. The training program takes place over an approximate two week period and is described below in this Item 11 in more detail.
Site Selection
If permitted by local law, you may operate your Deck Medic Business from a home based administrative office. Otherwise, you are responsible for selecting a site for your administrative office and must obtain our approval of your selected location. If you elect to establish an operations center comprised of a non-retail back-office facility to support the operations of your Deck Medic Business, including maintaining inventory, staging service visits, and parking your service vehicle, you are responsible for selecting and securing a site within your Operating Territory. We do not typically own or lease the real property that will serve as your administrative office and/or operations center and you are responsible for all costs and expenses in locating and evaluating proposed sites for your administrative office. We will provide you with site selection guidelines.
Within 30 days of our written receipt and submission of all information and documentation that we may request, we will respond to your proposed request for our approval or disapproval of the proposed location of your administrative office. Factors that into consideration include characteristics of the proposed site, whether or not the proposed site meets our criteria for non-retail back-office operations, and the location of your proposed site relative to your overall Operating Territory and proximity to other franchisee operating territories.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 24–29)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Deck Medic's 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, the initial training program is to be attended by the franchisee, or if the franchisee is a corporation, by the Managing Owner and one Operating Manager. If this is the franchisee's first Deck Medic Business, initial training will be provided for the franchisee or, if a Corporate Entity, the Managing Owner, plus two designated managers. Either the franchisee or the Managing Owner, plus the general manager, must successfully complete the initial training program no later than 30 days prior to the scheduled opening of the Deck Medic Business.
Deck Medic also offers initial training for replacement Operating Managers, which must be completed to the franchisor's satisfaction. The initial training program will be provided at facilities designated by Deck Medic, such as the affiliate-owned Deck Medic Business in Frankfort, Illinois, a certified training Deck Medic Business, the franchisee's location, or another location designated by Deck Medic.
After opening a Deck Medic Business, the franchisee (or the Managing Owner, if a corporation) may be required to attend a system-wide training program established at Deck Medic's discretion. If a System-Wide Training Program is established, it will be offered from the affiliate-owned Deck Medic Business in Frankfort, Illinois. The franchisee will be responsible for all travel, lodging, food, automobile rental expenses, and employee wages incurred in connection with attendance. Deck Medic will not require attendance at a System-Wide Training Program for more than a total of five days in any calendar year.