Does Monicals Pizza have the right to change or modify the System from time to time?
Monicals_Pizza Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Franchisor may (but is not required to) include at the Monical's Pizza website an intranet section or an interior page containing information about the Franchised Restaurant.
If Franchisor includes such information on the Monical's Pizza website, Franchisor has the right to require Franchisee to prepare all or a portion of the section or page, at Franchisee's expense, using a template that Franchisor provides.
All such information shall be subject to Franchisor's approval prior to posting.
Franchisor retains the sole right to advertise and sell the products and services offered by Monical's Pizza Restaurants and to use the Marks on the Internet, including the use of websites, domain names, uniform resource locators, on-line identifiers, keywords, linking, search engines and search engine optimization techniques, banner ads, meta-tags, marketing, auction sites, e-commerce and co-branding arrangements.
Franchisee may be requested to provide content for Franchisor's Internet marketing and shall be required to follow Franchisor's intranet and Internet usage rules, policies and requirements.
Franchisor retains the sole right to approve any linking to, or other use of, the Monical's Pizza website.
- 11.5.3 Franchisee may market the Franchised Restaurant by e-mail.
Franchisee may only use e-mail addresses obtained from guests of its restaurants or persons in their protected territory who have registered with Monical's for the Monical Dippin' Club or any successor to the Monical Dippin' Club for use in future e-mail marketing activities. "Guests of its restaurants" shall include those guests who are physically present in the restaurant and those persons who provide an e-mail address in the course of placing telephone orders or orders utilizing the internet.
- 11.5.4 Franchisee may engage in text marketing.
Franchisee may use only cellphone numbers obtained from guests of its restaurants. "Guests of its restaurants" shall include those guests who are physically present in the restaurant and those guests who have placed telephone orders or on-line orders with Franchisee's restaurant.
Franchisee is prohibited from enrolling guests using social media or other digital means (other than in conjunction with its on-line ordering platform).
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 46–257)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Monicals Pizza's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Monicals Pizza has the right to change or modify the System from time to time. This includes adopting new or modified marks, copyrighted materials, computer hardware, software, equipment, inventory, supplies, or sales and marketing techniques. As a franchisee, you must promptly accept and implement these changes.
These changes may require you to make expenditures to keep up with the System. However, Monicals Pizza specifies limits to these required expenditures. During the first year of the agreement, you won't be required to spend more than $1. During the initial term or any renewal term, the aggregate expenditure required cannot exceed $50,000. These amounts may increase consistent with the Consumer Price Index. In the final year, if you notify Monicals Pizza that you do not intend to operate a successor franchise, your expenditure cannot exceed $1.
Any additions or remodeling of the franchised restaurant must be submitted to Monicals Pizza in writing and receive pre-approval before construction or remodeling begins. Failure to obtain pre-approval could lead to termination of the Franchise Agreement. These required expenditures for changes or upgrades to the System are in addition to the expenditures for repairs and maintenance as required in Section 13.2 of the Franchise Agreement.