Where am I allowed to operate a Degree Wellness Studio?

Before you open your Degree Wellness Studio for business, we or our designee will:

1. Designate your Protected Territory (Franchise Agreement – Section 2.3). See Item 12 for additional information about your Protected Territory. You may only operate a Studio physically located in your Protected Territory.

• 1. Review and approve or disapprove your proposed Studio site (Franchise Agreement – Section 3.1). You must seek and select a mutually agreeable site within your Site Selection Area within 120 days after signing the Franchise Agreement. We will inform you of our approval or disapproval of your proposed site within 15 days of your proposal of the Studio site. The site must meet our criteria for demographics; traffic patterns; parking; ingress and egress; character of neighborhood; competition from, proximity to, and nature of other businesses; size; appearance; and other physical and commercial characteristics. We require your Studio to be a minimum of 1,800 square feet in size. Studios are typically located in high-traffic strip malls. For each proposed site, you must submit to us, in the form we specify, a description of the site and any other information or materials that we may require. We will not unreasonably withhold approval of a site that meets our standards for general location and neighborhood, traffic patterns, parking size, layout, lease terms, and other physical characteristics for Degree Wellness Studios. If you fail to identify a mutually agreeable site by the established deadline, then we may terminate your Franchise Agreement and the initial Franchise Fee may be forfeited.

Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 32–42)