What does Pump It Up do to authorize the opening of the Franchised Business?
Pump_It_Up Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
- (6) Authorize you to open the Franchised Business. (Franchise Agreement, Section 6.D.)
The initial training program is mandatory for all franchisees. We will not authorize your Franchised Business to open (or, for transfers we reserve the right to halt the operations of the Franchised Business or impose other operational restrictions on the operating business) if you (or your Operating Principal) and your managerial personnel (the person who is managing the day-to-day operations of the Franchised Business), as determined by us in our sole discretion, have not attended and successfully completed our initial training program. Your initial training must be completed after you have signed a lease for the Premises of your Pump It Up Business and prior to the date you open your Franchised Business. You likely will sign a lease at least 3 to 5 months prior to the date you complete construction of your Pump It Up Business (but the timing may be longer if your landlord delays delivery of the Premises to you). If you operate multiple Pump It Up Businesses, you are not required to complete the initial training program more than once unless we, in our sole discretion, determine that it is necessary for you to do so.
Before you open the Franchised Business, you (or your Operating Principal) must attend and complete our initial training program. The initial training program involves classroom instruction as well as hands-on instruction at a Pump It Up facility of our choosing and/or at any other location as we may specify in writing. We may, in our sole discretion, provide the initial training program entirely or in part via video conference or other online or virtual means at dates and times designated by us.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISORS'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 30–41)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Pump It Up's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Pump It Up will authorize a franchisee to open their franchised business. However, Pump It Up will not authorize the opening if the franchisee (or their Operating Principal) and their managerial personnel have not attended and successfully completed the initial training program.
The initial training program is mandatory for all franchisees and must be completed after the franchisee has signed a lease for the premises of their Pump It Up business and prior to the date they open. The FDD states that franchisees will likely sign a lease at least 3 to 5 months prior to the date they complete construction; however, this may be longer if the landlord delays delivery of the premises.
For franchisees who operate multiple Pump It Up businesses, they are not required to complete the initial training program more than once unless Pump It Up determines that it is necessary to do so. The initial training program involves classroom instruction as well as hands-on instruction at a Pump It Up facility or any other location Pump It Up specifies in writing. Pump It Up may, in its sole discretion, provide the initial training program entirely or in part via video conference or other online or virtual means at dates and times designated by them.