ODUCTS AND SERVICES**

Standards and Specifications

In order to maintain quality and uniformity among Brand Hotels, each Brand Hotel must meet the Brand Standards. These standards require that your Hotel and most of the items you use or sell at your Hotel meet our specifications. You must strictly comply with all Brand Standards. In constructing or renovating and operating your Hotel, you must use only those products, supplies, equipment, furnishings, and services that we have approved according to our Brand Standards for appearance, function, and performance, including: the furniture, fixtures, and equipment ("FF&E"); operating supplies and equipment ("OS&E"); décor; layout and floorplan; signage; advertising materials; uniforms; photography; logoed items; operating supplies; guest room amenities; consumable inventories; food and beverage services; wireless high-speed internet access; in-room entertainment; Computer System, including Central Reservation System, Property Management System, and Revenue Management System; insurance; telephone; security items; and such other products and services for which we periodically issue Brand Standards (collectively, the "Supplies"). The Brand Standards may include minimum requirements

for delivery, performance, design, and quality of the Supplies. We will provide you this information in our Brand Manual, which we may revise from time to time, or otherwise in writing.

You must procure and maintain, at your expense, insurance coverage in the types and amounts we periodically require, in addition to any other insurance that may be required by applicable law, your landlord, your mortgagee, or otherwise. At a minimum, such policies include the following (primary and excess/umbrella policies may be used in any combination as long as the total minimum limit requirements are met):

• commercial general liability (CGL) insurance for any claims or losses arising or resulting from the operations/premises of the hotel with limits of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence and a general aggregate limit not less than $3,000,000; limits shall apply on a per location aggregate basis if the hotel is insured under a blanket policy;
• liquor liability (applicable only when or if you distribute, sell, serve, or furnish alcoholic beverages) with limits of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence; limits shall apply on a per location aggregate basis if the hotel is insured under a blanket policy;
• automobile liability insurance including owned, non-owned, and hired vehicles for combined single limits of bodily injury and property damage of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence and a general aggregate limit not less than $3,000,000;
• garage-keeper's liability to the extent that hotel operations include parking operations, with a limit adequate to cover the full actual value of all automobiles that are in your care, custody, and control at any one time;
• umbrella or excess liability insurance policies as follows: (i) if your Hotel is three stories or less, then you must carry coverage of at least $14,000,000, or (ii) if your Hotel is more than three stories, then you must acquire a policy with coverage of at least $24,000,000. All policies providing excess/umbrella coverage shall follow the form of the primary CGL, worker's compensation, automobile liability, and liquor liability policies;
• property/all risk and contents insurance (or builder's risk insurance during any period of construction) on all building(s) and contents against loss or damage by fire, lightning and all other risks associated and covered by the "all risks" policy form, all in an amount not less than 90% of the replacement cost. Terrorism risk insurance (TRIA) coverage is required;
• boiler & machinery insurance against loss or damage from explosion of boilers or pressure vessels to the extent applicable;
• business interruption insurance covering at least 12 months loss of profits and necessary continuing expenses for interruptions caused by a covered occurrence;
• workers' compensation insurance in statutory amounts for all your employees and employers' liability insurance in amounts not less than $1,000,000 per accident or disease;
• crime insurance covering employee dishonesty, such as theft of money, securities, or property, with a limit of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence;

• employment practices liability insurance covering wrongful acts arising from the employment process; and
• cyber liability insurance in the amount of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence.

Each of the insurance policies must: (i) be written by an insurance company with an A.M. Best rating of "A" or better; (ii) to the extent legally permissible, name us, our affiliates, and our and their respective officers, directors, and employees as additional named insureds and loss payees for all liability coverage policies; (iii) provide that the coverages will be primary and that any insurance carried by us will be excess and non-contributory; and (iv) provide that all coverages afforded to us (and our affiliates) will be coextensive with the coverage provided to you or any named insured on such policy, and any language in such policy that purports to limit the coverage available to us (and our affiliates) will be deemed deleted as to us (and our affiliates). We periodically may change the amounts of coverage required under the insurance policies and require different or additional kinds of insurance, including excess liability insurance. All insurance may be effected under policies of blanket insurance which cover your other properties and affiliates so long as such blanket insurance satisfies our requirements, as they periodically are modified. Within 10 days of the date you sign the Franchise Agreement, you must provide us certificates of insurance showing compliance with the insurance requirements; the certificate of insurance must include a statement that the policies will not be canceled without at least 30 days' prior written notice to us. Upon our request, you must supply us with copies of all insurance policies and proof of payment. You also must deliver renewal certificates to us not less than 10 days prior to each insurance policy's renewal date.

Approved Suppliers

To facilitate consistency and quality among Brand Hotels and our ability to leverage volume purchasing power, we reserve the right to approve or designate all vendors and suppliers of Supplies and services you use in developing, operating and promoting your Hotel. We may designate a sole supplier or approved suppliers (which may be us or our affiliates) (the "Approved Suppliers") from which you will be required to purchase certain Supplies, and you will purchase those Supplies only from the Approved Suppliers when required. You may be required to sign such Approved Suppliers' form agreements for the purchase of such Supplies or services. We will provide the list of Approved Suppliers to you. We may provide your contact information to our Approved Suppliers and you may be contacted by our Approved Suppliers. We provide access to a third-party online procurement platform customized for the Network Brands, and we may require you to make certain purchases through that platform. Although we have the right to require the platform or Approved Suppliers to charge you a 2% to 3% procurement fee, which would be remitted to us, we currently do not require them to charge such fee. We currently do not maintain any other purchasing or distribution cooperatives.

None of our officers or affiliates own a material interest in any Approved Supplier. However, from time to time, our officers may own non-material interests, for investment purposes only, in publicly-held companies that are suppliers to Brand Hotels.

Neither we nor any of our affiliates currently is an Approved Supplier, although we may designate ourselves or an affiliate as an Approved Supplier (including as an exclusive supplier). You periodically may pay us for purchases from designated third parties.

If you want to purchase goods or services from an unapproved supplier, then you may submit a written request for us to approve the supplier. You must submit to us all information,

specifications and samples that we request. Any goods or services from suppliers must be in accordance with Brand Standards. We will review all of the pertinent information. While we have no obligation to respond within a certain time frame, our review typically takes 30 days to complete. We have the right to require as a condition of our initial and continuing approval that our representatives are permitted to inspect and re-inspect the supplier's facilities, and that the supplier attend our brand conference and enter into our then-applicable supplier agreement. We currently do not charge a fee for the supplier approval process, but we may do so. We may change our approval process or supplier criteria at any time. If we approve a supplier as to any goods, services, suppliers or materials, we must grant our approval in writing. We may condition our initial and continued approval of a supplier on certain requirements, such as delivery frequency, standards of service (including prompt attention to complaints), concentration of purchases, insurance protection, the supplier's willingness to enter into indemnity and confidentiality agreements, payment of reasonable license fees (if Marks are used), and other criteria. Other than this description of our criteria, we do not disclose any further details of our criteria for approving suppliers to franchisees.

We may approve suppliers on a temporary basis and/or revoke approval of Approved Suppliers who no longer satisfy our criteria for suppliers or do not pass reinspection, and if that happens, we will provide reasonable written notice of such disapproval to you. We do not provide any material benefit to a franchisee based on a franchisee's use of designated or pre-approved suppliers, except that your purchase or lease of goods or services as required is an essential element of your compliance with the Franchise Agreement and the Brand Standards, and your failure to do so is a breach of the Franchise Agreement and may result in your loss of material benefits, up to and including the termination of the Franchise Agreement.

We may negotiate purchase arrangements with Approved Suppliers, which we currently anticipate will be volume-based pricing. We may receive volume-based allowances from certain Approved Suppliers with whom we have negotiated contracts, generally as a percentage of net or gross sales made by franchisees or by Network Hotels we own or manage. The allowances we receive generally range from 1% to 4% of net or gross sales on such items as FF&E, operating/maintenance equipment and supplies, merchant processing, services, and food and beverage products from purchases made by franchisees or by Network Hotels we own or manage.

Required Purchases from Approved Suppliers

You must install, display, and maintain signage displaying or containing the Marks and other distinguishing characteristics in accordance with Brand Standards we establish for Brand Hotels. You must purchase the signage for your Hotel from an Approved Supplier. There may be only one Approved Supplier for various Supplies, which may include us or an affiliate.

Most of the equipment and supplies you must purchase to establish and operate your Hotel must meet our Brand Standards and other brand defining standards, and some must be purchased from an Approved Supplier, and in some cases, only one Approved Supplier. Currently, this includes most FF&E, OS&E, and other operating supplies such as food products. Any equipment and supplies for which we have not designated an Approved Supplier may be purchased from any supplier as long as the equipment and supplies meet Brand Standards.

You must use the booking engine we designate, participate in all booking programs we designate through the booking engine, and may not use any other booking engine for your Hotel. We have entered into agreements with intermediaries for various distribution channels, pursuant

to which such distribution channels and online travel agencies ("OTAs") (which may include Agoda | Priceline, Booking.com, Hotwire, Expedia, and other third party intermediaries providing travel products for sale electronically to travel agents, corporations, meeting planners, and consumers) will offer your hotel room inventory through their websites including, in some cases, rooms at loyalty program member rates (the "Third-Party Distribution Program"). You must participate in the Third-Party Distribution Program, using only those channels that we designate for Brand Hotels.

General

In the year ended December 31, 2024, RLHC received $66,472 and SRLHF received $41,198 from vendors based on purchases by all Network Hotels (including our franchisees, licensees, and owned and managed Network Hotels).

During fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, SRLHF derived $12,613,798 (or 27% of SRLHF's revenue of $47,107,963), from purchases of goods and services by franchisees and licensees of all Network Brands.

We estimate that 30% to 50% of the required purchases and leases of goods and services used to establish a new Brand Hotel, 20% to 25% used to convert an existing hotel into a Brand Hotel, and 15% to 20% used to operate a Brand Hotel, are required to be purchased from an approved supplier or are subject to our standards and specifications.

Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (FDD pages 42–46)