What inventories must a Pump It Up franchisee maintain?
Pump_It_Up Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You must use the Franchised Business solely for the operation of a Pump It Up Business and must maintain sufficient inventories of goods, products and other items needed to service guests, adequately staff each shift with qualified employees, and continuously operate the Franchised Business at its maximum capacity and efficiency for the minimum number of days and hours as we specify in the Manuals or otherwise in writing.
We reserve the right to require you to offer and sell all of the products and services that we periodically require and only in the manner we have prescribed. You will discontinue selling and offering for sale any service or product that we disapprove in writing. You may only offer and sell all products which we have approved at retail (not wholesale) and only from the Premises. Our System Standards may regulate required or authorized products, services and service categories and supplies. There are no limits on our right to periodically change required and/or authorized products, services, and service categories, and we may do so at our discretion. Our System Standards may also regulate (to the extent allowed by law) maximum, minimum and other pricing requirements for the services and products your Pump It Up Business sells.
We do not limit the customers to whom you can offer services.
Source: Item 16 — RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT THE FRANCHISEE MAY SELL (FDD page 47)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Pump It Up FDD, franchisees must maintain sufficient inventories of goods, products, and other items needed to service guests. This includes adequately staffing each shift with qualified employees. Pump It Up requires franchisees to continuously operate the franchised business at its maximum capacity and efficiency for the minimum number of days and hours specified in the manuals or in writing.
Pump It Up reserves the right to require franchisees to offer and sell all of the products and services that they periodically require, and only in the manner they have prescribed. Franchisees must discontinue selling any service or product that Pump It Up disapproves of in writing. Franchisees may only offer and sell all products which Pump It Up has approved at retail (not wholesale) and only from the premises.
The System Standards may regulate required or authorized products, services and service categories and supplies. Pump It Up does not limit the customers to whom franchisees can offer services. Pump It Up may also regulate (to the extent allowed by law) maximum, minimum and other pricing requirements for the services and products the Pump It Up Business sells. Item 7 of the FDD also indicates that the initial investment includes an allocation for miscellaneous office supplies, paper supplies (such as napkins, forks, cups, etc.), goodie bags, and janitorial supplies.