Who owns the Kitchen Solvers Brand Fund?
Kitchen_Solvers Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
The Brand Fund Fee will be deposited into a Brand Fund (the "Fund"). We will administer the Fund in our sole and absolute discretion. We may administer the Fund ourselves or designate or license one or more third parties to do so. Any company-owned or affiliate-owned KITCHEN SOLVERS® businesses we (or our affiliates) operate will contribute to the Fund at the same rate as similarly situated franchisees. We may formulate, develop, and conduct marketing and promotion programs out of the Fund to promote the KITCHEN SOLVERS® system and products in a form and media we determine in our sole judgment to be appropriate. We have sole discretion over the creative concepts, materials, media, type, nature, scope, frequency, place, form, copy, layout and content of all advertising and marketing paid out of the Fund. Media used for any marketing program may include internet, social media, television, radio, newspapers, magazines and other written publications, which all may be local, regional or national in coverage. We may use national and regional marketing and advertising agencies from time to time to create and place advertising and other marketing communications. We reserve the right to use the Fund to reimburse us for all costs that we incur related to the marketing and promotion programs, including the proportionate compensation of employees who devote time and render service in the conduct, formulation, development and production of the marketing and promotion programs or the administration of the Fund.
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 26–31)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Kitchen Solvers' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the Brand Fund is administered by Kitchen Solvers. The document states that Kitchen Solvers will administer the Brand Fund in its sole and absolute discretion, and may administer the Fund themselves or designate or license one or more third parties to do so.
Kitchen Solvers has complete control over the Brand Fund, including the creative concepts, materials, media, and content of all advertising and marketing paid for by the fund. This gives Kitchen Solvers the authority to make all decisions about how the fund is used to promote the Kitchen Solvers brand.
Kitchen Solvers also reserves the right to use the Brand Fund to reimburse themselves for all costs related to marketing and promotion programs, including employee compensation for time spent on these activities. This means that a portion of the Brand Fund can be used to cover Kitchen Solvers' internal expenses related to marketing and promotion.