Does My Salon Suite provide written site selection guidelines to franchisees?
My_Salon_Suite Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Location for your Franchised Business; and (ii) constructing, equipping, remodeling, and/or building out the Approved Location for use as a Franchised Business, all in accordance with our Franchise System standards and specifications. We may provide you with our current written site selection guidelines, to the extent such guidelines are in place, and any other site selection counseling and assistance we determine is advisable. Our guidelines for site selection require that you conduct, at your expense, an evaluation of the demographics of the market area for the proposed location. We may then use these factors in determining the suitability of your proposed site for the Approved Location of your Franchised Business. In deciding whether to approve a site, we may also consider, among other things: (i) demographic characteristics, traffic patterns, allowed design and building, parking, visibility, allowed signage, the predominant character of the neighborhood surrounding the proposed site; (ii) competition from other businesses selling similar products and services within the area, and the proximity of the site to these businesses, as well as the nature of all other businesses in proximity to the site; (iii) zoning restrictions, soil and environmental issues, and other commercial characteristics; and (iv) the size, appearance, and other physical characteristics of the proposed site (Section 7.1 of the Franchise Agreement).
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 42–53)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to My Salon Suite's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, My Salon Suite may provide franchisees with written site selection guidelines. The FDD states that My Salon Suite may provide franchisees with its current written site selection guidelines, if such guidelines are in place, along with any other site selection counseling and assistance that My Salon Suite deems advisable.
The guidelines for site selection require franchisees to conduct an evaluation of the demographics of the market area for the proposed location, at the franchisee's expense. My Salon Suite may use these factors in determining the suitability of the proposed site for the Approved Location of the Franchised Business.
Before a franchisee can lease or purchase a site for the Franchised Business, they must locate a site that satisfies My Salon Suite's site selection guidelines. Franchisees must submit information and materials for at least one proposed site to My Salon Suite for approval no later than six months after signing the Franchise Agreement. My Salon Suite will then have 15 business days to approve or disapprove the proposed site. If My Salon Suite does not provide specific approval of a proposed site, the site is deemed not approved. My Salon Suite's approval only means that the site meets their minimum requirements for a Franchised Business.