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A Franchise Disclosure Document runs two to five hundred pages, and the parts that matter most are rarely the parts written to be read. We read all 23 Items and tell you what they actually say.
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The categories are split, led by five typical, with two favourable, two to review and one material concern.
Every category had enough information to evaluate.
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- Encrypted and private. The PDF travels over an encrypted connection into private, encrypted storage that accepts only PDFs. It is never public, and never shared with a franchisor.
- Evidence is extracted and graded by a stored rulebook. No one reads your FDD to produce your score.
- Your email is never sold or shared, and we never market a franchise to you.
- The ten-category FDD QuickScore
- A signal for each category: favorable, typical, review or material concern
- A confidence rating for each category
- The risk flags the document raises, and the FDD Item each rests on
- Three due-diligence questions generated from what this FDD leaves open
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A Franchise Can Look Great on the Surface…
The brochure, the discovery day and the franchise development representative all tell a consistent story. The FDD is where the terms actually live — and where it goes quiet.
What one FDD allowed us to evaluate
A lower count is not a worse score. A gap is the document declining to answer — a question for the franchisor, not a mark against the franchise.
Item 19 may contain no earnings information
When a franchisor declines to make a representation, nothing tells you what a unit earns.
“Protected” may not mean “exclusive”
Online sales, national accounts and alternative channels are often reserved out of the territory.
Renewal may come with different terms
Renewing usually means signing the then-current agreement, which may carry a higher royalty.
None of this is hidden. It is just spread across three hundred pages.
Check My FDD for These Issues →Every finding points back to the page it came from.
The royalty is the greater of 6% of Gross Revenue or a minimum royalty of $1,500 per month, payable semi-monthly.
In addition, you must contribute to the Brand Fund at a rate that reverts to 1.5% of Gross Revenue at the start of each calendar year. We have the right to change the contribution, provided that it does not exceed 4% of Gross Revenue.
After the first 90 days, required local advertising is the greater of $2,000 per month or 5% of monthly Gross Revenue Collected.
Recurring fee burden
REVIEWThe disclosed recurring percentage burden is 7.5% before local advertising requirements, and the brand fund may rise to 4% at the franchisor’s discretion.
A minimum dollar royalty is owed whether or not sales support it. Because this FDD discloses no revenue denominator for it, it cannot honestly be expressed as a percentage — so we report the structure as disclosed rather than converting it.
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Ten categories, each with its own signal, confidence rating and the FDD Item it rests on. Under a minute.
Review the Full FDD Evaluation
100 individual factors, each with its source reference. Most people only buy it for the one or two franchises that survive the QuickScore.
How we keep the signals honest
A signal is only useful if it means the same thing every time, and if it admits what it does not know.
The signals are deterministic
The same FDD produces the same signals every time. Evidence is extracted, a frozen rulebook assigns grades, and the database does the arithmetic.
Unknown stays unknown
When the FDD does not establish something, the factor is marked N/A and coverage falls. It is never quietly called typical, and a missing Item 19 lowers our confidence, not the franchise’s standing.
Confidence is reported separately
A favourable signal built on thin evidence is not the same as one built on audited statements. You see the signal and the confidence behind it, never one blended into the other.
Risk flags stand apart
Serious contractual and financial issues are surfaced on their own, so they stay visible even when the overall result looks acceptable.
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