Does Flowerama provide specifications for required equipment and fixtures?

nt as a result of purchases of products from these suppliers, we or our affiliates will deposit these rebates into the Flowerama Marketing Fund, if established, or, if you are operating a Co-Brand Flowerama Center, the 1-800-Flowers Marketing Fund, if reinstated.

All flowers, plants, accessories, gift and sentiment items and other merchandise (including arrangements, if you purchase the Fruit Bouquets Program) sold from the Flowerama Center and all fixtures, furnishings, signs and equipment installed at the Flowerama Center must conform to the standards and specifications we establish in the Franchise Operations and Brand Standards Manual, Fruit Bouquets Franchise

Operations and Brand Standards Manual, other manuals, company directives and other materials. We will provide you with a list of our approved and designated suppliers after you sign the Franchise Agreement. You must use our current, approved designs for merchandise placement in your Flowerama Center and must stock an inventory of these items at the levels we determine. If you fail to remove any unapproved flowers, plants, fruit bouquets, accessories, gift and sentiment items and other merchandise from the Flowerama Center within five days after our written notice to you to do so, we have the right to enter the Flowerama Center without prior notice to remove unapproved flowers, plants, fruit bouquets, accessories, gift and sentiment items and other merchandise from the Flowerama Center without cost or liability.

We and/or our affiliates have the right to negotiate purchase arrangements with suppliers (including price terms, fees and/or rebates, such as from wire services) for your benefit. There are currently no purchasing or distribution cooperatives in which you must participate. We do not provide any material benefits to our franchisees (such as the grant of additional franchises or territories) based on our franchisees' use of approved suppliers.

You have the right to recommend suppliers to us at any time. We test and evaluate recommended suppliers at your expense and approve or disapprove the suppliers with reasonable promptness, not to exceed 90 days based upon our tests and evaluations of the products or services. You may not use a recommended supplier before we approve the supplier in writing. We currently do not charge a fee for testing and evaluating recommended suppliers.

If you wish to purchase an item from a supplier that has not yet been approved by us, you must make a written request to us for approval of the proposed item or supplier. Our criteria for approval, as may be needed, may be requested from us directly in writing on a case-by-case basis. Generally, we apply the following criteria, among others, in considering whether the supplier will be designated as an approved supplier: (1) ability to produce the products, services, supplies, or equipment to meet both our standards and specifications for quality and uniformity and our franchisees' and customers' expectations; (2) production and delivery capabilities and ability to meet supply commitments;

Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (FDD pages 29–32)