Is the Degree Wellness training program subject to change?
Degree_Wellness Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
The training program is subject to change due to updates and modifications in materials, methods, procedures, manuals and personnel without notice to you. All of these topics are integrated throughout self-directed, virtual, live classroom and in-Studio observation. Your staff will be required to attend all training sessions of the initial training program separate from the training sessions that you attend due to the nature of the topics being covered. In some instances, you and your staff will attend the same training session.
You must attend and participate in all sessions of the initial training program. If we determine that you have not completed or are unable to complete our initial training program satisfactorily, we may offer another chance to re-take the initial training program at your expense. Your failure to complete initial training to our satisfaction will give us the right to terminate your Franchise Agreement.
If we determine, however, that you have not met the minimum requirements for the establishment of the Studio by the timelines set forth in the Manual, we may elect to provide you
with additional on-site assistance as we deem appropriate and you agree to pay our per diem fee for this additional assistance as well as our related travel, lodging, and dining costs.
We may make available additional courses, seminars, and other training programs as we consider appropriate. We also reserve the right to make any of these training programs mandatory for you and/or designated owners, employees, general managers, and/or representatives of yours. You will be solely responsible for the wages and travel, lodging, and living expenses for each attendee of yours who attends any additional training program offered and held by us.
You are required to attend one-hundred percent (100%) of our annual conference, a training program that we conduct once per year. The location of the annual conference will be determined by us. Your attendance at the annual conference is mandatory. You will be solely responsible for the wages and travel, lodging, and living expenses for each attendee of yours who attends the annual conference.
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 32–42)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Degree Wellness's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the training program is subject to change. The FDD states that updates and modifications can be made to the training materials, methods, procedures, manuals, and personnel without prior notice to franchisees.
Degree Wellness requires both the franchisee and their staff to attend all initial training program sessions. In some instances, the franchisee and their staff will attend the same training session. If Degree Wellness determines that a franchisee has not satisfactorily completed the initial training program, they may offer another chance to retake the program, but at the franchisee's expense. Failure to complete the initial training to Degree Wellness's satisfaction can result in the termination of the Franchise Agreement.
Degree Wellness may also offer additional training programs, seminars, and courses that they deem appropriate. They reserve the right to make any of these additional training programs mandatory for franchisees, designated owners, employees, general managers, and/or representatives. The franchisee is solely responsible for the wages, travel, lodging, and living expenses for each attendee from their staff who attends any additional training program offered and held by Degree Wellness. Franchisees are also required to attend 100% of Degree Wellness's annual conference, a training program conducted once per year, and are responsible for all associated costs.