When must my attendees complete training for Engineering For Kids before opening my Business?
Engineering_For_Kids Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
to you during the operation of the Franchised Business.
Training
If this is your first Engineering For Kids Business, you (or the Operating Principal, if you are a corporation or other entity) and any other Designated Employee must attend and successfully complete, to our satisfaction, the initial training program that we offer on operating an Engineering For Kids Business. The training is conducted at designated locations (such as conferenced facilities) or virtually.
If you or your personnel fail to complete initial training to our satisfaction, you or they may repeat the course or may send a substitute to the next available scheduled training session. We reserve the right to charge you a reasonable fee for initial training for substitute personnel. We have the right to reduce the duration or content of the training program for any trainee who has prior experience with our concept or in similar businesses. We also have the right to allow you to train certain of your Designated Employees and successors in those positions at the location of your Franchised Business. Failure to complete the initial training program constitutes grounds for termination of the Franchise Agreement.
We will provide instructors, facilities, and materials for the initial training programs at no charge for training up to two people (provided that all of your personnel are trained during the same training session). Additional people beyond the first two may attend initial training if you pay our then current training charge for each additional person (currently $300 per person, subject to change). We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for re-training persons who are repeating the course or replacing a person who did not pass. You will bear all expenses incurred in attending training (including the initial training program and refresher training programs), such as the costs of transportation, lodging, meals, wages, and worker's compensation insurance (see Items 6 and 7 of this disclosure document).
Training will occur after you sign the Franchise Agreement and while you are preparing the Business to begin operating.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 25–36)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Engineering For Kids FDD, if you or your operating principal (if you are a corporation or other entity) are new to Engineering For Kids, you and any other designated employee must attend and successfully complete the initial training program. This training is conducted at designated locations or virtually. The FDD states that your attendees must complete training before you may open your Engineering For Kids business.
Engineering For Kids aims to be flexible in scheduling training to accommodate personnel and allow franchisees to begin operating within 120 days from the effective date of the Franchise Agreement. If you or your personnel fail to complete the initial training to Engineering For Kids' satisfaction, you or they may repeat the course or send a substitute to the next available session. Engineering For Kids reserves the right to charge a reasonable fee for initial training for substitute personnel.
Failure to complete the initial training program constitutes grounds for termination of the Franchise Agreement. Engineering For Kids will provide instructors, facilities, and materials for the initial training programs at no charge for training up to two people, provided all personnel are trained during the same session. Additional people beyond the first two may attend initial training if you pay the then-current training charge for each additional person, which is currently $300 per person, subject to change. The franchisee bears all expenses incurred in attending training, including transportation, lodging, meals, wages, and worker's compensation insurance.