Is the Lease Addendum included as an attachment to the Itan Franchise Agreement?
Itan Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
If you lease the premises for your Salon, you must use best efforts to cause your landlord to sign the Lease Addendum attached to the Franchise Agreement as ATTACHMENT "C". The Lease Addendum is designed to protect our interests. If your landlord refuses to sign the Lease Addendum in substantially the form attached to the Franchise Agreement, we may either (a) waive the Lease Addendum requirement (or the provisions disapproved by the landlord) or (b) require you to find a new site for your Salon. You and the landlord must sign the lease and Lease Addendum within 60 days after we approve your site.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD pages 43–44)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Itan Franchise Disclosure Document, if a franchisee leases their premises, they must make their best effort to have the landlord sign the Lease Addendum, which is attached to the Franchise Agreement as ATTACHMENT "C". This addendum is designed to protect Itan's interests.
Itan does not review the terms of the franchisee's lease. If the landlord refuses to sign the Lease Addendum in substantially the form attached to the Franchise Agreement, Itan has the option to either waive the Lease Addendum requirement (or the provisions disapproved by the landlord) or require the franchisee to find a new site for their salon. The franchisee and the landlord must sign the lease and Lease Addendum within 60 days after Itan approves the site.
For franchisees converting an existing tanning salon to an Itan Salon, if they lease the Premises, they must negotiate with their landlord, if necessary, to modify their lease in order to provide them with a term of at least 10 years from the Conversion Date. The franchisee must also cause their landlord to execute Itan's required Lease Addendum. Itan may require that these steps be completed prior to execution of the Franchise Agreement and the Conversion Addendum. At a minimum, Itan may require execution of the Lease Addendum as a condition to them issuing their Certificate of Conversion Completion.