What is a Certified Training Location for Moes Southwest Grill?
Moes_Southwest_Grill Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
e of training that this program requires. If any of your Required Trainees have previously attended and successfully completed our Management Training Program and you or they have not defaulted under any other franchise agreement with us, we may, in our sole discretion, determine that such Required Trainee is not required to attend the Management Training Program again or will be required to attend a limited version of the Management Training Program.
We conduct the Management Training Program periodically as needed. Training programs and classes are subject to space and time availability. All or certain portions of the Management Training Program may, in our discretion, be conducted online or in person at (i) our corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, (ii) a Restaurant that we designate that has been certified by us as an authorized training facility (a "Certified Training Location") (which may be located outside of your state and may be operated by our franchisees), and/or (iii) other locations authorized by us. Currently, our classroom training is conducted through online modules and our on-the-job training is conducted at a Certified Training Location. For the third or subsequent Restaurants operated by you or your affiliates, if you have a Certified Training Manager (as defined below) and operate a Certified Training Location (as defined below), we may, in our sole discretion, allow you to provide the Management Training Program to your Required Trainees.
Your trainees may not attend the Management Training Program until (a) you have provided us with your fully signed Lease (if required) in a form that we have approved, (b) your Restaurant is under construction, (c) you have provided us with evidence of the insurance that is required under your Franchise Agreement, and (d) it is within 10 weeks of the scheduled opening date of your Restaurant.
There is no charge for the cost of the Management Training Program for your Required Trainees for your first two Restaurants (including Restaurants owned by your affiliates). If we provide the Management Training Program to you for your third or subsequent Restaurants (including Restaurants operated by your affiliates), you must pay us a fee of $7,500 for the Management Training Program. You must pay us a reasonable training fee that we designate (currently, $250 per trainee per day) if (i) you elect, and we permit you, to bring additional trainees, other than the Required Trainees, to the Management Training Program, (ii) your Required Trainees are trained in separate sessions, or (iii) any of your Required Trainees fail to successfully complete the Management Training Program and re-enroll in the program or are replaced with new trainees that enroll in the program.
Your Required Trainees must successfully complete our Management Training Program at least one week prior to the scheduled opening date of the Restaurant.
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 53–68)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 FDD, a Certified Training Location for Moes Southwest Grill is a restaurant that the company has authorized to conduct management training. Moes Southwest Grill may conduct training at its corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, at a Certified Training Location, or other authorized locations. The FDD specifies that classroom training is currently conducted online, while on-the-job training occurs at a Certified Training Location.
To become a Certified Training Location, a Moes Southwest Grill restaurant must meet specific compliance scores, fully comply with the brand's standards, and employ at least two managers in addition to a Certified Training Manager. Moes Southwest Grill retains the discretion to grant, withhold, or revoke this certification and to modify the minimum requirements for certification.
If a Moes Southwest Grill franchisee's restaurant is certified as a Certified Training Location, their Certified Training Manager must provide the Management Training Program according to the brand's standards. However, if certification is withheld or revoked, Moes Southwest Grill may require the franchisee's trainees to attend the Management Training Program at an alternative designated location, and the franchisee will be responsible for paying the then-current training fee. For franchisees operating three or more restaurants, Moes Southwest Grill may allow them to conduct their own Management Training Program if they have a Certified Training Manager and operate a Certified Training Location.