What should an Engineering For Kids franchisee include in their submission for unapproved programs or curriculum?
Engineering_For_Kids Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
If you would like to offer programs or to use curriculum and related materials that we have not approved, you must submit a written request to us. The submission must include lesson plans, materials to be used and any other items as we may reasonably request to evaluate your submissions. In reviewing your request, our evaluation criteria will typically include quality of the services and products, our brand standards, customer experience, and trademark issues. We may also require modification to the proposed program and materials. If we approve a request, we may do so on a limited or test basis. We may authorize any new programs and materials for use by the entire system.
If you would like to offer or use other services or products that we have not approved or purchase from a supplier that we have not approved, you must submit a written request for approval. We have the right to inspect the proposed supplier's facilities and/or test samples of the proposed products. You agree to pay us an amount not to exceed the reasonable cost of the inspection and our actual cost of testing the proposed product, including personnel and travel costs, whether or not we approve the supplier. We have the right to grant, deny, or revoke approval of programs, curriculum materials, products, services, and suppliers based solely on our judgment. We will notify you in writing of our decision as soon as practicable following our evaluation. We reserve the right to reinspect the facilities and products of any approved supplier and to revoke approval upon the supplier's failure to meet any of our then-current criteria. If you receive a notice of revocation of approval, you agree to cease purchasing products from the disapproved supplier and, in the case of revocation based on failure of products to meet our standards, you agree to dispose of your remaining inventory of the disapproved supplier's products as we direct. If a new product or service is approved, it will become our property.
Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES\ (FDD pages 19–24)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Engineering For Kids Franchise Disclosure Document, if a franchisee wants to offer programs or use curriculum and related materials that have not been approved, they must submit a written request to Engineering For Kids. This submission must include lesson plans, materials to be used, and any other items that Engineering For Kids may reasonably request to evaluate the submission.
Engineering For Kids will evaluate the submission based on criteria such as the quality of the services and products, brand standards, customer experience, and trademark issues. The franchisor may also require modifications to the proposed program and materials. If Engineering For Kids approves a request, it may do so on a limited or test basis. Furthermore, Engineering For Kids may authorize any new programs and materials for use by the entire system.
If a franchisee wants to offer or use other services or products that Engineering For Kids has not approved, or purchase from a supplier that Engineering For Kids has not approved, they must submit a written request for approval. Engineering For Kids has the right to inspect the proposed supplier's facilities and/or test samples of the proposed products. The franchisee agrees to pay an amount not to exceed the reasonable cost of the inspection and Engineering For Kids' actual cost of testing the proposed product, including personnel and travel costs, whether or not Engineering For Kids approves the supplier. Engineering For Kids has the right to grant, deny, or revoke approval of programs, curriculum materials, products, services, and suppliers based solely on its judgment and will notify the franchisee in writing of its decision as soon as practicable following its evaluation. If a new product or service is approved, it will become Engineering For Kids' property.