What is the maximum tuition fee Fat Shack may charge per Additional Meeting?
Fat_Shack Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Additional Training. During the term of your Franchise Agreement, we may require you (or your General Manager) and your other managers to attend, at your expense, meetings, seminars, or conferences ("Additional Meetings"), which we present to discuss topics such as advertising programs, new operations methods, training, management, sales, or sales promotion. We may charge a tuition for attending additional training programs, which will not exceed $1,000 per Additional Meeting. Attendance is optional unless we give you 30 days' prior written notice that it is mandatory. We will not require you to attend training programs or seminars more than twice a year.
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 28–36)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Fat Shack's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the franchisor may require franchisees or their managers to attend meetings, seminars, or conferences, referred to as "Additional Meetings," to discuss topics such as advertising programs, new operations methods, training, management, sales, or sales promotion. Fat Shack may charge a tuition fee for these additional training programs.
The maximum tuition fee that Fat Shack can charge for attending these Additional Meetings is $1,000 per meeting. Attendance at these meetings is optional unless Fat Shack provides 30 days' prior written notice that attendance is mandatory.
Fat Shack will not require franchisees to attend training programs or seminars more than twice a year. This means that a franchisee could potentially incur up to $2,000 in tuition fees for additional training programs annually, in addition to travel and other expenses, if Fat Shack deems the attendance mandatory.