Where does the initial training for a Deer Solution franchise take place?
Deer_Solution Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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 corporate training facility located in Parsippany, New Jersey or virtually as designated by us.
The training program takes place over an approximate one week period and is described below in this Item 11 in more detail.
If this is your first Deer Solution Business, we will provide initial training for you or, if you are a Corporate Entity, your Managing Owner, plus one designated manager. Either you or your Managing Owner plus, your general manager, must successfully complete the initial training program to our satisfaction no later
than 30 days prior to the scheduled opening of your Deer Solution Business. Ideally, you will attend training within three to five weeks of your business launch. The initial training program takes place over an approximate one week period. If more than two individuals attend initial training you will be charged an additional fee per additional persons attending initial training. Although we provide you, if you are a Corporate Entity, your Managing Owner, plus your general manager with initial training at no additional fee or charge, you will be responsible for all travel expenses and employee wages related to your attendance and completion of training. (Franchise Agreement, Article 4). At least one owner/operating manager must attend the initial training. We schedule training four to six times a year, approximately every eight to 12 weeks. We expect to conduct the initial training after you have completed pre-opening activities such procuring any local licenses, ordering service vehicles, and hiring a general manager, if applicable.
Initial Training for Replacement Operating Managers Your Operating Manager must complete, to our satisfaction, our initial training program. We will offer and make available to your replacement Operating Manager our initial training program which must be completed to our satisfaction. The initial training program will be provided by us at the facilities that we designate that, presently, is comprised of our Deer Solution Business located in Parsippany, New Jersey and at the certified training Deer Solution Business that we designate in New Jersey or virtually as designated by us. You will be required to pay our then current supplemental training fee for replacement Operating Manager, which is currently $500, per manager, per day for each replacement manager attending our initial training. (Franchise Agreement, Articles 4.A. and 4.C.);
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 29–35)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Deer Solution's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the initial training program for franchisees or their managing owner and one operating manager is held at Deer Solution's corporate training facility in Parsippany, New Jersey, or virtually, as designated by the company.
The initial training program is approximately one week long. Deer Solution schedules training sessions four to six times a year, roughly every eight to twelve weeks. Franchisees are expected to attend training within three to five weeks of their business launch, after completing pre-opening activities such as obtaining local licenses and ordering service vehicles.
If a franchisee needs to train a replacement operating manager, Deer Solution offers the initial training program at its Deer Solution Business in Parsippany, New Jersey, or at a certified training Deer Solution Business that they designate in New Jersey, or virtually, as designated by them. The franchisee is responsible for a supplemental training fee for each replacement manager attending the initial training, which is currently $500 per manager per day.