For a Moes Southwest Grill franchise, who is considered a 'Required Trainee' for the Management Training Program?
Moes_Southwest_Grill Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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our corporate headquarters, (ii) a Franchised Business that we designate that has been certified by us as an authorized training facility (a "Certified Training Location"), and/or (iii) other locations authorized by us. 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 Franchised Business is under construction, (c) you have provided us with evidence of the insurance that is required under your Franchise Agreement, and (d) you are within the eligible training period specified on Schedule A.
- D. Completion of Training. All of your Required Trainees must successfully complete our Management Training Program at least one week prior to the scheduled opening date of the Franchised Business. If your opening date changes and your required Trainees completed our Management Training Program more than 120 days before the revised opening date, we may require them to attend up to an additional week of training and may require you to pay our thencurrent daily training fee for each Required Trainee, which is currently $250 per trainee per day and may be increased in any year by no more than the Allowed Adjustment. We have the right in our reasonable discretion to determine whether a trainee has successfully completed the Management Training Program. If we conclude that a Required Trainee has failed to successfully complete the Management Training Program, that Required Trainee must re-enroll in our next scheduled applicable Management Training Program at no additional charge. We will have the right to terminate this Agreement if, following the Management Training Program and reenrollment training (if any), none of the Required Trainees has successfully completed the Management Training Program.
- E. Training of You by Franchisees. We may, in our sole discretion, authorize certain franchisees to provide on our behalf all or portions of the Management Training Program in accordance with our Standards, provided such franchisees (i) have a Certified Training Manager (as defined below), (ii) operate a Certified Training Location, and (iii) meet other requirements that we specify. If we require or permit you to receive portions of the Management Training Program from another franchisee, we may require you to execute an agreement with such other franchisee regarding the training program.
- F. Subsequent Trainees. Any Managers, Primary Contacts, Directors of Operations (as defined in Section 12.7.B.
Source: Item 22 — Contracts (FDD page 92)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Moes Southwest Grill Franchise Disclosure Document, all Required Trainees must successfully complete the Management Training Program at least one week before the scheduled opening date of the Franchised Business. If the opening date changes and the Required Trainees completed the Management Training Program more than 120 days before the revised opening date, Moes Southwest Grill may require them to attend up to an additional week of training. In this case, the franchisee may have to pay the then-current daily training fee for each Required Trainee, which is currently $250 per trainee per day and may be increased in any year by no more than the Allowed Adjustment.
Moes Southwest Grill has the right to determine whether a trainee has successfully completed the Management Training Program. If a Required Trainee fails to successfully complete the program, they must re-enroll in the next scheduled Management Training Program at no additional charge. However, Moes Southwest Grill can terminate the Franchise Agreement if, following the Management Training Program and re-enrollment training, none of the Required Trainees successfully complete the program.
Moes Southwest Grill will provide the Management Training Program to the Required Trainees at no additional charge for the first two Franchised Businesses that the franchisee or their affiliates operate. For the third and subsequent Franchised Businesses, the franchisee must pay the then-current Management Training Program fee for all Required Trainees to attend in a single training session if they elect to receive the Management Training Program from Moes Southwest Grill or its designee. The franchisee must also pay the then-current training fee for each trainee if they elect to bring additional trainees other than the Required Trainees, if the Required Trainees are trained in separate sessions, or if any Required Trainees fail to successfully complete the program and re-enroll or are replaced with new trainees.