Does Golden Corral provide a pre-opening training program?

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Training Program

Before opening the Restaurant, your Restaurant managers must complete our initial training program for managers. No person may serve as a Restaurant manager without having first fully completed the training program. The initial training program for managers requires approximately 8 weeks to complete and must be attended by each of your managers (general manager, associate manager-kitchen and associate manager-service). In addition, within four months before your Restaurant's proposed opening, your general manager must

work in the grand opening of another Golden Corral system Restaurant for a minimum of one full week. If there is no other grand opening occurring within such 4-month timeframe, the Division President will determine the operating restaurant where your general manager will work in lieu of grand opening training. We may also require the general manager to attend a General Manager (GM) class at the Golden Corral Training Center.

In addition to the regular manager training for each Restaurant, before opening your first Restaurant, your General Manager and associate manager-kitchen must successfully complete an additional level of initial training, identified below as "Practice Management." This training lasts approximately six weeks and is designed to provide a more thorough understanding of, and more experience in, managing the Restaurant's operations. We may waive the Practice Management training requirement if (a) you are currently employed as a certified manager of an operating Golden Corral Restaurant; or (b) you currently are the owner and operator of an operating Golden Corral franchised Restaurant.

Our initial training program consists of two components: Tier 1 and Tier 2. Tiers 1 and 2 are conducted in a certified training restaurant. For new entities, additional Practice Management is required. I Managers are assigned to a restaurant where they can complete the six-week Practice Management component. If required by Golden Corral, the manager will attend a one week of classroom training held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Instructional materials include computer-based training (CBT), manuals (Operations, Administrative Guide, a Tier 1 and 2 Training Guide, and Applied Food Service Sanitation course), recipes, laptop computers, and miscellaneous training videos on Golden Corral management tools and reports.

All training must be completed per established standards to our satisfaction.

We do charge a fee for training additional managers (see Item 6). As of the date of this disclosure document, the training fee is the cost of training materials, which is currently $205. You also must pay all expenses incurred by your attendees while attending franchise orientation and our training programs, including the costs of transportation, lodging, meals and any wages.

Various employees of Golden Corral or its affiliates will provide training. These employees' experience in the subjects about which they will be training ranges from 1 year to over 20 years. For Tier 1 and 2 (as described below), on-the-job training will be supervised by a certified Training Manager who has completed a specialized course in training managerial candidates, and who has been a Restaurant General Manager for at least 6 months at a Golden Corral Training Restaurant. The Practice Management on-the-job training (as described below) will be supervised by an experienced certified Restaurant Manager. Your managers also must attend, at your expense, such refresher courses, additional training programs, and seminars as Golden Corral may designate from time to time.

The following charts summarize our initial training program:

TRAINING PROGRAM

TIER 1 IN‐STORE TRAINING

Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 32–48)