For Eos Worldwide, what role must I serve in my Franchised Business?
Eos_Worldwide Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
[Item 16: RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT THE FRANCHISEE MAY SELL]
Not every opportunity requires an Item 16 review. Generally speaking, if the opportunity could potentially create a conflict of interest with the EOS Worldwide brand or your business or otherwise materially impact your ability to operate your EOS Implementer business, you should go through an Item
16 review.
Unlike many franchise concepts, you are not required to operate your EOS business full-time; in fact, one of the benefits of EOS and what is a core principle to living The EOS Life is that even as an EOS Implementer, you have time for your other passions. But that does not mean you can essentially do whatever you want. As a franchisee/Implementer, you may not engage in activity that is competitive or that would create a conflict of interest with your business.
This does not mean that any income producing venture must go through this process. There are of course various types of opportunities and investments that would have no tangible impact on your Franchised Business. For example, a purely passive investment unrelated to business operating systems should not require an "Item 16" review.
But those that do or might, we expect that you will clear those with us as part of this process.
Source: Item 15 — OBLIGATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTUAL OPERATION OF THE FRANCHISE BUSINESS (FDD pages 52–53)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Eos Worldwide FDD, franchisees are not required to operate their EOS business full-time. Eos Worldwide understands that franchisees may engage in outside opportunities, but those opportunities must not violate the restrictive covenants in the Franchise Agreement or create a conflict of interest with the role as an EOS Worldwide franchisee.
To prevent potential conflicts of interest, Eos Worldwide created guidelines set forth in the Operations Manual defining the kind of outside opportunities that they determine are acceptable, and those that they determine are not. Essentially anytime a franchisee has created or pursued, or are even in the planning stages of creating or pursuing, a separate venture alongside their EOS Implementer Franchised Business, then they may be required to clear it with Eos Worldwide by submitting for what they refer to as their "Item 16" review.
Generally speaking, if the opportunity could potentially create a conflict of interest with the Eos Worldwide brand or the franchisee's business or otherwise materially impact their ability to operate their EOS Implementer business, they should go through an Item 16 review. As a franchisee, you may not engage in activity that is competitive or that would create a conflict of interest with your business. Eos Worldwide expects that franchisees will clear those ventures with them as part of this process.