What is the name of the Franchise Management Training Program that Del Taco offers?
Del_Taco Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Before opening your Restaurant, we offer a Franchise Management Training Program (the "FMTP") to qualify you, your Operating Principal and your Restaurant's managers to operate the Restaurant in accordance with our standards and procedures. Included in the FMTP is pre-opening training to enable you, your Operating Principal, one full-time restaurant manager ("Restaurant Manager") and at least 5 additional shift managers to learn the proper preparation and presentation of our food products. We require that each of these personnel spend 240 hours before the Restaurant's opening in this pre-opening training portion of the FMTP and receive certification from us. We issue that certification based on completion of the FMTP to our satisfaction. We require the completion of all FMTP training generally at least 3 weeks before the opening of your Restaurant. The Restaurant Manager of each Restaurant must have a minimum of one year of quick service restaurant management experience, spend 240 hours before the Restaurant's opening in this pre-opening job training session, satisfactorily complete the training program, and receive our certification. Any subsequent Restaurant Manager that you may hire also must have the minimum one year of quick service Restaurant management experience, satisfactorily complete the training program, and receive our certification. Restaurants with 24-hour operations must always have a minimum of one certified Restaurant Manager and 5 shift managers, unless the Restaurant is one of your first two Del Taco Restaurants. Restaurants without 24-hour operations must have a minimum of one Restaurant Manager
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 31–38)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Del Taco's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the company offers a Franchise Management Training Program, which is referred to as the "FMTP". This program is designed to qualify franchisees, their Operating Principal, and the Restaurant's managers to operate the Del Taco Restaurant according to the company's standards and procedures.
The FMTP includes pre-opening training, requiring personnel such as the Operating Principal, one full-time Restaurant Manager, and at least five additional shift managers to spend 240 hours learning how to properly prepare and present Del Taco's food products. Del Taco issues a certification upon satisfactory completion of the FMTP, which is generally required at least three weeks before the restaurant's opening.
Notably, Del Taco requires that the Restaurant Manager have a minimum of one year of quick service restaurant management experience, complete the 240-hour pre-opening job training, and receive certification. For restaurants operating 24 hours a day, Del Taco mandates a minimum of one certified Restaurant Manager and five shift managers, unless it is one of the franchisee's first two Del Taco restaurants. Restaurants without 24-hour operations must have a minimum of one Restaurant Manager and four shift managers, with similar exceptions for the franchisee's first two locations. An assistant manager is not required but can substitute for one shift manager. The franchisee or their Operating Principal can fulfill the role of one or more of the required trained managers for their first restaurant.