What training must a designee complete to become the Operating Principal for a Pump It Up franchise?
Pump_It_Up Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
ctivity that conflicts with your obligations to operate the Franchised Business. You have the sole responsibility for recruiting, hiring, and training employees for the Franchised Business. Before you hire any employee for the Franchised Business, you should require that employee to sign a non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement.
- (3) If the Operating Principal can no longer fulfill its obligations, you must designate another qualified person to act as Operating Principal within 30 days after the date the prior Operating Principal ceases to be qualified. Your designee to become the Operating Principal must successfully complete our initial training program and any additional training we require within 30 days after being designated as your Operating Principal.
- E. Multi-Unit Manager. Upon the opening of your fifth franchised Pump It Up Business, we reserve the right to require you to utilize a "Multi-Unit Manager" (which may be you or your Operating Principal). The Multi-Unit Manager will be responsible for the management and supervision of the Franchised Business and your other franchised Pump It Up Businesses (also see Section 14.D above).
15. TRANSFER BY US.
We have the absolute, unrestricted right, exercisable at any time, to change our ownership or form and/or transfer and assign all or any part of our rights and obligations under this Agreement to any person or legal entity without your consent. After our transfer or assignment of this Agreement to a third party who expressly assumes the obligations under this Agreement, we no longer will have any performance or other obligations under this Agreement.
16. TRANSFER BY YOU
A. Transfer Generally. You understand and acknowledge that the rights and duties this Agreement creates are personal to you (or, if you are an Entity, to your owners) and that we have granted the Franchise to you in reliance upon our perceptions of your (or your owners') individual or collective character, skill, aptitude, attitude, business ability, and financial capacity. Accordingly, neither you nor any immediate or remote successor to any part of your interest in this Agreement, nor any individual or Entity which directly or indirectly controls you, may sell, assign, transfer, convey, give away, pledge, mortgage, or otherwise encumber any interest in you, this Agreement, the Franchise, the Franchised Business, the assets of the Franchised Business, the Premises, any leases for the Premises, or any other assets pertaining to your operations under this Agreement (collectively, a "Transfer") without our prior written consent. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, any purported Transfer, whether by operation of law or otherwise, done without our prior written consent will have no effect with regard to us and will constitute a material breach of this Agreement for which we may terminate this Agreement without providing you an opportunity to cure the breach.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 60–225)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Pump It Up's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, if the Operating Principal can no longer fulfill their obligations, the franchisee must designate a qualified replacement within 30 days. This designee must successfully complete Pump It Up's initial training program, along with any additional training the company requires. This training must be completed within 30 days of being designated as the Operating Principal.
The initial training program involves both classroom instruction and hands-on training at a Pump It Up facility or another location specified by the company. The training may also include online or virtual components. Franchisees (or their Operating Principal) are responsible for covering all travel, living, and other expenses associated with attending the training.
Pump It Up does not charge a fee for the initial training program for the franchisee, the Operating Principal, a Multi-Unit Manager, or one management-level employee responsible for training staff. However, the company reserves the right to charge a fee for subsequent training programs for these individuals or for training other personnel. All attendees may be required to sign a standard Liability Waiver and Release before participating in the training.
Successful completion of the initial training program is mandatory before opening the Pump It Up franchise to the public. If Pump It Up determines that the franchisee or Operating Principal has not satisfactorily completed the initial training, the company has the right to terminate the Franchise Agreement.