Will Healthsource Chiropractic franchise owners and staff ever attend the same training sessions?
Healthsource_Chiropractic Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
The training program is subject to change due to updates and modifications in materials, methods, procedures, manuals and personnel without notice to you. All of these topics are integrated through self-directed, virtual, live classroom and in-clinic observation. Your staff will be required to attend all training sessions of the initial training program separate from the training sessions that you attend due to the nature of the topics being covered. In some instances, you and your staff will attend the same training session.
We reserve the right to offer and hold additional ongoing training programs and franchise owners' meetings for your Clinic at such times and locations as we may deem necessary or appropriate. We also reserve the right to make any of these training programs mandatory for you and/or designated owners, employees, general managers, and/or representatives of yours. You will be solely responsible for the wages and travel, lodging, and living expenses for each attendee of yours who attends any additional training program or franchise owners meeting offered and held by us. If we offer any such mandatory training programs, then you or your designated personnel must attend a minimum of seventy-five percent (75%) of the programs offered on an annual basis (Franchise Agreement - Section 4.2). You are required to attend our annual conference, a training program that we conduct once per year. The location of the annual conference will be determined by us. Your attendance at the annual conference is mandatory. You will be solely responsible for the wages and travel, lodging, and living expenses for each attendee of yours who attends the annual conference. We will not charge you a fee to attend the annual conference, but we will collect fees from you that are imposed by third parties relating to the annual conference, such as fees charged for lodging, food, and beverage.
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 34–44)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Healthsource Chiropractic FDD, franchise owners and their staff will generally attend separate initial training sessions due to the different topics covered. However, there will be instances where owners and staff attend the same training sessions.
Healthsource Chiropractic also reserves the right to offer additional ongoing training programs and franchise owner meetings, which may be mandatory for owners, employees, general managers, or representatives. Franchisees are responsible for the wages, travel, lodging, and living expenses for their personnel attending these programs. Franchisees or their designated personnel must attend a minimum of 75% of the mandatory programs offered annually and are required to attend the annual conference.
Attendance at the annual Healthsource Chiropractic conference is mandatory for franchisees, and if a third-party professional corporation services the clinic's patients, each chiropractor of that corporation must also attend. While Healthsource Chiropractic does not charge a fee for the annual conference itself, franchisees are responsible for third-party fees related to lodging, food, and beverage.