Can Noodles & Company require me, my Operating Partner, and Restaurant management personnel to attend periodic or additional training programs?

We may require you and your Operating Partner and Restaurant management personnel to attend and successfully complete periodic or additional training programs. We may require you and your general managers to attend additional training, or other informational programs from time to time as we deem necessary for re-training, new product roll-outs, new equipment usage, etc. Except in the case where you are an Affiliate of an existing area operator of Noodles & Company restaurants who has opened Noodles & Company restaurants prior to your opening Noodles & Company restaurants, we will not charge any fees for attendance at any such training programs for your initial Area Operator

training, Operating Partner training and the first two (2) general managers' training for the first two Restaurants you open (for an aggregate total of four (4) general managers being trained). Subsequent or additional training shall be provided upon your request or based on our determination that such training is necessary or desirable, at the cost set forth in our then current Operations Manual. You will be responsible for all compensation and expenses (including travel, meals and lodging and fully-burdened salaries and expenses for days or hours of such training) incurred by you and your Personnel in attending any training programs. You must immediately replace any individual who fails to successfully complete any training program. Our training programs are more fully described in the Noodles & Company Operations Manual. The scheduling, content and duration of our training programs are at our discretion and we reserve the right to modify such training, including the materials, equipment and support used.

Source: Item 23 — RECEIPT (FDD pages 99–350)