What is a 'Gas and Convenience Center Location' as it pertains to a Hardees franchise?
Hardees Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Hardee's Restaurants are quick service restaurants offering a limited menu of breakfast, lunch and dinner products. The Hardee's Restaurants feature charbroiled 100% Black Angus Thickburger sandwiches, Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders, Made from Scratch Biscuits and other related quick serve menu items.
The Franchise. If you are approved as a franchisee, you can buy a franchise to develop and operate one Hardee's Restaurant at a Travel Center Location or Gas and Convenience Location (each, a "Franchised Restaurant") under a Franchise Agreement (the current form is attached as Exhibit D) or, if you and the area in which you are interested meet certain qualifications, you can buy the rights to develop multiple (at a minimum, three) Franchised Restaurants at Travel Center Locations or Gas and Convenience Locations under a Development Agreement (the current form is attached as Exhibit C).
A Travel Center is a facility located off an interstate or limited highway exit that focuses on services to the trucking industry, including fuel, showers, restrooms, convenience items, food and truck parking & services. A Gas and Convenience Center Location is a facility primarily focused on non-commercial fuel service and convenience items including freshly made foods.
Source: Item 1 — The Franchisor and any Parents, Predecessors, and Affiliates (FDD pages 9–22)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Hardees's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, a 'Gas and Convenience Center Location' is defined as a facility primarily focused on non-commercial fuel service and convenience items, including freshly made foods. This is one of two location types, the other being a 'Travel Center Location', where a Hardees franchisee can develop and operate a restaurant.
Hardees also offers franchise opportunities in traditional and nontraditional locations under separate disclosure documents with different terms and conditions. Nontraditional locations include venues like airports, train stations, stadiums, convention centers, military facilities, schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, recreational theme parks, business or industrial foodservice venues, venues in which foodservice is or may be provided by a master concessionaire or contract foodservice provider, Indian reservations, casinos, "ghost" or "dark" kitchens or any similar captive market or non-traditional "brick and mortar" location.
Prospective franchisees should understand the distinction between these location types as the terms of the franchise agreement and potential incentives may vary. For example, franchisees who sign a Development Agreement or Franchise Agreement for one or more Hardee's Restaurant(s) to be located at a Travel Center Location or Gas and Convenience Location may qualify for the 2025 HR Travel Center Development Incentive Program or the Standard Development Incentive Program.