What is the Floors To Go franchisee's obligation regarding the appearance of the Showroom?
Floors_To_Go Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
cipate are expected to pay a per trainee fee, plus transportation, lodging and meals.
5.2. Assistance to Members.
- a. We will provide and deliver to your Showroom, at our expense, the racks, displays and samples necessary to convert your Showroom to a FTG Showroom, as well as a store design consultant to assist you with adapting the FTG Showroom design package to your Showroom (the "Redesign"). We estimate that the cost of the Redesign will be between Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000) and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) per Showroom, depending on the size of your Showroom. You will not be required to repay any portion of the cost to Redesign your Showroom if you remain a FTG member for the entire Original Term. We will not purchase any tenant improvement items, including, among other things, installation of floor coverings in showrooms, furniture, or office equipment. We may also, upon your request: (i) provide you with a consultation regarding carpet quality and product mix; and (ii) assist you with resolving problems with merchandise vendors or manufacturers participating in the FTG System.
- b. For administrative convenience: (1) we will control the management and disbursement of the funds received as Advertising Fees, as defined in Section 6.4 of this Agreement; (2) we will serve as the advertising agency primarily responsible for creating and developing the advertising materials (e.g., artwork, print media presentations, direct mail flyers, promotional materials, point-of-sale formats, audio and video presentations) which we deem appropriate for the membership advertising programs;
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 47–204)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
Based on the 2025 Floors To Go Franchise Disclosure Document, Floors To Go will provide and deliver to the franchisee's showroom the racks, displays, and samples necessary to convert the showroom to a Floors To Go showroom. Floors To Go will also provide a store design consultant to assist with adapting the FTG Showroom design package to the franchisee's showroom.
The FDD states that Floors To Go estimates the cost of this redesign to be between $20,000 and $50,000 per showroom, depending on the size of the showroom. The franchisee will not be required to repay any portion of the cost to redesign the showroom if they remain a FTG member for the entire original term. However, Floors To Go will not purchase any tenant improvement items, including installation of floor coverings in showrooms, furniture, or office equipment.
After termination of the Franchise Agreement, the franchisee must remove the FTG Marks from all Showroom signage, interior and exterior. They must also cease to utilize the FTG System and immediately cease to use the name "Floors To Go" and any forms, slogans, signs, marks, symbols, and devices used in connection with the operation of a Floors To Go independent Showroom. The franchisee must also take action to cancel any assumed name registration that contains the name "Floors To Go".