Where can an Engineering For Kids franchisee offer and provide programs?
Engineering_For_Kids Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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ITEM 12 TERRITORY
Grant of Rights and Definition of Territory
Under the Franchise Agreement, we will grant you the right and license to operate your Franchised Business within a Territory. The Territories will vary in size and dimension based on local factors, but a "standard" Territory will generally be determined as a geographic area containing approximately 100 schools with grades including some or all of kindergarten through eighth grade.
You will offer and provide Programs at the Authorized Locations the Programs and sell the Authorized Products, and such other and services and products that we may approve from time to time, to customers of the Franchised Business attending Programs at the Authorized Locations (regardless of where those customers live). You may also offer and provide Special Event Services Programs at the homes (or other facilities) of customers who attend Programs at your Authorized Locations, or who are referred to you by customers who attend Programs at your Authorized Locations. As described in Item 1, Special Event Services are those Programs and
Authorized Products that we approve for sale and use at children's parties, holiday and other celebratory events conducted outside of the Authorized Locations.
You may not, unless you have our prior written approval, engage in any other type of sale, including, selling or distributing products or services at wholesale or to third parties for resale, or using alternate channels of distribution, such as the Internet, catalog sales, or telemarketing.
Territory Rules.
You will conduct Programs, advertise and market the services of the Franchised Business, and directly solicit participants, inside (but only inside) your Territory (subject to our right to approve all advertising and marketing materials). "Direct solicitation" includes solicitation in person, by telephone, by mail, by e-mail or other electronic means, advertising, marketing, and by distribution of brochures, business cards or other materials.
You may not directly solicit participants located, and/or conduct Programs, in the territory of another Engineering For Kids Business (an "Assigned Area"). You may accept participants from an Assigned Area into Programs that you operate inside your Territory if you did not directly solicit those participants. If you receive an inquiry to conduct a Program at a location in an Assigned Area, you must refer that Program to the Engineering For Kids Business operating in that Assigned Area.
You may directly solicit participants from, and conduct Programs in, areas located outside the Territory if those participants and/or Programs are not located in an Assigned Area (an "Open Area") and the following conditions are met. You may only solicit participants from, and conduct Programs in, Open Areas located within 25 miles of your Territory. If you are conducting a Program in an Open Area (an "Outside Program") and that area later becomes an Assigned Area, then you must immediately give control of the Outside Program to the Engineering For Kids Business franchisee for that Assigned Area.
Source: Item 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 36–41)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Engineering For Kids' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees can offer and provide programs at authorized locations within their territory. These locations are determined as a geographic area containing approximately 100 schools with grades including some or all of kindergarten through eighth grade. Franchisees can also offer Special Event Services Programs at the homes or other facilities of customers who attend programs at their authorized locations, or who are referred by customers who attend programs at the authorized locations. Special Event Services are those programs and authorized products that Engineering For Kids approves for sale and use at children's parties, holiday, and other celebratory events conducted outside of the authorized locations.
Engineering For Kids franchisees must conduct programs, advertise, and market the services of the franchised business, and directly solicit participants inside their territory. Direct solicitation includes in-person, telephone, mail, e-mail, or other electronic means, advertising, marketing, and distribution of brochures, business cards, or other materials. Franchisees may accept participants from an assigned area into programs that they operate inside their territory if they did not directly solicit those participants. If a franchisee receives an inquiry to conduct a program at a location in an assigned area, they must refer that program to the Engineering For Kids business operating in that assigned area.
Engineering For Kids franchisees may directly solicit participants from, and conduct programs in, areas located outside the territory if those participants and/or programs are not located in an assigned area, referred to as an "Open Area." However, this is limited to Open Areas located within 25 miles of their territory. If a franchisee is conducting a program in an Open Area and that area later becomes an Assigned Area, they must immediately give control of the Outside Program to the Engineering For Kids Business franchisee for that Assigned Area. Once an Open Area becomes an Assigned Area, the franchisee may no longer directly solicit participants from, or conduct any Programs in, the Assigned Area.