What specifications does Golden Corral provide for establishing the Restaurant?

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Pre‐Opening Obligations

Before the opening of the Restaurant, Golden Corral will:

• 1. Provide site selection guidelines and consultation as Golden Corral may deem advisable (Development Agreement, Section 5.1; Site Selection Addendum, Paragraph 4.a).
• 1. Provide on-site evaluation as Golden Corral may deem advisable in response to your requests for site approval (Development Agreement, Section 5.1; Site Selection Addendum, Paragraph 4.b).
• 1. Make available to you, at no charge, generic plans and specifications for the construction of a Restaurant designed for use in Raleigh, North Carolina, including the Restaurant's exterior and interior design and layout, fixtures, furnishings, and signs (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.1). Our generic plans are not intended as, and may not be used as, your construction drawings. You must have your own site-specific plans prepared by a licensed architect.
• 1. Provide you with specifications for equipment, supplies, and inventory necessary to establish the Restaurant (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.2).
  • 1. Provide a pre-opening training program (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.3).
• 1. Upon your request, and subject (as to timing) to the availability of personnel, provide you, at Golden Corral's expense, an aggregate of 15 to 45 man-days of on-site management assistance when you open your Restaurant (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.4).
• 1. Immediately before, upon and after opening of your first and second Restaurants, make available to you an "A-Team" comprised of certain personnel of Golden Corral and/or authorized franchisees of other Golden Corral Restaurants for temporary employment by you, at the Restaurant, for the length of time Golden Corral, in its sole discretion, deems necessary to assist in training and preparing your non-managerial employees for opening and operating the Restaurant. Typically, the A-Team is comprised of from 20 to 24 individuals for on-site assistance, depending on Restaurant size. During the time these personnel are performing on-site assistance for you, you must bear all the costs and expenses (they will be considered to be your employees), such as transportation, including air travel to and from the Restaurant, food, lodging, and wages for such employees

during the period such on-site assistance is being provided. The estimate of these costs is included in Item 7. (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.5)

• 1. Provide you, on loan, one copy of the Manual, which may be in electronic form (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.8).
• 1. Provide you, in the Manual or otherwise in writing, with initial sets of accounting forms for use in the Restaurant (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.9).

Continuing Obligations

After the opening of the Restaurant, Golden Corral will provide:

• 1. Specifications for equipment, supplies, and inventory necessary to operate the Restaurant (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.2).
• 1. Additional training programs as Golden Corral deems appropriate (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.3).
• 1. Periodic and continuing advisory assistance in the operation and promotion of the Restaurant, and advice and written materials about new developments concerning restaurant equipment, food products, packaging, and preparation. There is no additional fee for the advisory assistance we provide in this manner (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.6).
• 1. Advertising and promotional plans and materials, at your expense, for local advertising and promotion as we deem advisable (Franchise Agreement, Section 3.7).

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Golden Corral has the right to delegate the pre-opening and continuing responsibilities and duties, as described above, to any designee, except those concerning advertising approvals.

Site Selection

If your Restaurant is not developed under a Development Agreement, you must sign a Site Selection Addendum, unless Golden Corral already has approved a site for your Restaurant at the time you sign the Franchise Agreement. The Site Selection Addendum will describe a geographic area within which you must lease or purchase an approved location within 180 days after execution of the Franchise Agreement. Time is of the essence in your obtaining a site for the Restaurant. Your failure, within 180 days, to obtain a location approved by us will constitute a default under the Franchise Agreement and Site Selection Addendum.

When you identify a proposed site for the Restaurant (which must occur within 90 days after you sign the Site Selection Addendum but before you lease or purchase the Restaurant premises), you must submit a completed Feasibility Study, a description of the

proposed site, such other information and materials as Golden Corral may reasonably require, and a letter of intent or other evidence satisfactory to Golden Corral which confirms your favorable prospects for obtaining the proposed site. Golden Corral will have up to 60 days to approve or disapprove, in its sole discretion, the proposed site as a location for the Restaurant. Golden Corral considers, among others, the following factors in approving Restaurant sites: location, competitors, neighborhood, customer traffic patterns and count, parking availability, building size, condition and previous use of the existing land and/or building, availability of utilities, the anticipated cost of development and general demographics. Golden Corral's approval is not a guarantee or assurance from us that your Restaurant will be profitable.

Area Developers who currently operate Restaurants (either themselves or through affiliated companies) and seek our approval to open another Restaurant ("Development Approval") must first satisfy conditions applicable to all of their currently open Restaurants before we either will approve a site or issue a Franchise Agreement for a new Restaurant. More specifically, as a pre-condition to our granting Development Approval, all of the currently operating Restaurants must (a) meet our minimum standards for cleanliness, service and quality, which standards may, in our sole discretion, be higher and more demanding than the minimum standards that would constitute a default under any applicable Franchise Agreement provision;

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