eport revenue. 3 You must furnish us with a quarterly report and documentation of local advertising expenditure. You may not use social media platforms, such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, L
From the filings
Alsies
Quick service restaurantAlsies' most recent FDD, from 2025, reports 5 locations, all 5 company-owned, at an average unit volume of $329,489 — which makes software purchasing a straight HQ decision with no franchisee body to sell around. Item 1 names Travis Kososki as Chief Executive Officer, Walker Petersen as Head of Operations and Jennifer Brock as VP of Franchise Development; no CIO or CTO is disclosed in the most recent FDD. The only technology the filing mandates is social: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter are required, while QuickBooks, LinkedIn and YouTube are named without being required — so every operational category is open.
For software vendors selling into US franchise brands.
Live signals
Ongoing fee load
What the operator pays every month
The recurring percentage of gross sales named in this filing, before rent, labour or any technology fee.
7%of gross sales (FY2025)
15% reference
Mandated & recommended tech
The systems vendors compete with
Systems named in Item 11 of this filing. None is recorded as mandated here, which is not the same as the filing mandating nothing. Read Item 11 before treating the category as open.
riod in which you report revenue. 3 You must furnish us with a quarterly report and documentation of local advertising expenditure. You may not use social media platforms, such as Instagram, TikTok, F
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ch you report revenue. 3 You must furnish us with a quarterly report and documentation of local advertising expenditure. You may not use social media platforms, such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Tw
y do cooperative advertising with other Alsies franchisees in your area, with our prior written approval. You may not maintain any business profile on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, Y
vertising with other Alsies franchisees in your area, with our prior written approval. You may not maintain any business profile on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or any other
Franchisor behaviours
What the franchisor requires
23 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 4 explicit no's; 7 questions the text does not settle, which is not a no.
Accounting
Must the franchisee use an accounting or bookkeeping system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
Franchisee agrees to keep and maintain complete and accurate books and records of its transactions and business operations using the accounting procedures and chart of accounts specified by Franchisor.
Does the franchisor have direct or independent electronic access to the franchisee's financial, sales or customer records?
YesItem 11
We reserve the right to have independent access to your sales information and customer data generated by and stored in your computer system.
Must the franchisee submit periodic financial statements (monthly, quarterly or annual) to the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
Within five (5) days after the close of each calendar month and within ninety (90) days after the close of each fiscal year, Franchisee will furnish Franchisor a full and complete written statement of income and expense and a profit and loss statement for the operation of the Franchised Business during said period…
How the franchisor buys
Is the franchisor or an affiliate itself a supplier of required products, services or systems?
YesItem 8
We are the designated supplier of certain branded merchandise, including shirts, hats, paper and plastic products, and staff uniforms that you are required to purchase for the operation of your Franchised Business.
Is there a franchisee advisory council, association or committee?
YesItem 11
The Franchise Agreement gives us the right, in our discretion, to create a franchisee advisory council to communicate ideas, including proposed advertising policies.
How much revenue did the franchisor and its affiliates earn from franchisee purchases in the last fiscal year?
0Item 8
During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, neither we nor any of our affiliates received any revenue from vendors on account of required purchases by franchisees.
Item 8 gives this proportion in one of two shapes: separate percentages for establishing the business and for operating it, or one figure covering "establishing and operating" together. Where they are separate, answer with the operating percentage; where the passage gives only the combined figure, answer with that. What percentage of the franchisee's purchases must come from designated or approved suppliers?
30Item 8
We estimate that your purchase or lease of products, supplies and services from approved suppliers (or those which meet our specifications) will represent approximately 70% of your costs to establish your Franchised Business and approximately 30% of your costs for ongoing operation.
Does the franchisor charge a fee to evaluate a proposed supplier?
YesItem 8
In addition, you must pay us an evaluation fee equal to our costs and expenses incurred in our review of the potential supplier.
Can a franchisee propose a new supplier for the franchisor's approval?
YesItem 8
If you would like us to consider another item or supplier, you must make such a request in writing to us and have the supplier give us samples of its product or service and such other information that we may require.
Data and IT
Must the franchisee comply with PCI, data-security or cybersecurity standards set by the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
including accepting all payment methods Franchisor requires and complying with then- current Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards or other standards Franchisor may reasonably specify;
Franchise management
Does the franchisor conduct periodic inspections, audits or evaluations of the franchised business?
YesItem 11
conduct inspections of your Franchised Business, at the frequency and duration that we deem advisable.
Can the franchisor change the operations manual and brand standards unilaterally?
YesFranchise agreement
Franchisor may from time to time revise the contents of the Manual and other materials created or approved for use in the operation of the Franchised Business.
Marketing
Is the franchisee prohibited from operating its own website or social media accounts, or required to use pages the franchisor provides?
YesFranchise agreement
Franchisee shall not establish any website or other listing on the Internet except as provided and specifically permitted herein.
Is a minimum grand opening advertising spend required?
YesItem 11
We require you to spend at least $5,000 to $7,000 on pre-opening local advertising and public relations activities prior to the opening of your Franchised Business.
Is the franchisee required to spend a minimum amount on local advertising or marketing, as a percentage of sales or a fixed amount?
YesItem 11
Thereafter, you are required to spend at least 1% of your Gross Sales per month on local advertising to promote your Franchised Business.
Operations
Must the franchisee buy products from a designated distributor?
YesItem 8
You must purchase all fixtures, furnishings, signs, equipment, inventory, uniforms, marketing materials, inventory, computer systems, certain software, and other supplies, products and materials from our approved suppliers and contractors or in accordance with our specifications.
Must equipment be purchased from designated or approved suppliers?
YesItem 8
You must purchase all fixtures, furnishings, signs, equipment, inventory, uniforms, marketing materials, inventory, computer systems, certain software, and other supplies, products and materials from our approved suppliers and contractors or in accordance with our specifications.
Payments
Are royalties and other fees collected by automatic bank debit (ACH or electronic funds transfer) from the franchisee's account?
YesFranchise agreement
At Franchisor’s request, Franchisee must execute documents, including but not limited to, the Authorization attached as Attachment 8, that allow Franchisor to automatically take the Royalty Fee and Brand Fund Contribution due as well as other sums due Franchisor, from business bank accounts via electronic funds…
People
Must employees wear uniforms specified by the franchisor?
YesItem 8
We are the designated supplier of certain branded merchandise, including shirts, hats, paper and plastic products, and staff uniforms that you are required to purchase for the operation of your Franchised Business.
Point of sale
Must the franchisee use a specific point-of-sale system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 11
You are required to use the hardware, software, system tools and processes as stated in the Operations Manual.
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?
YesItem 11
We reserve the right to have independent access to your sales information and customer data generated by and stored in your computer system.
Training
Can the franchisor charge the franchisee for additional, refresher or remedial training?
YesItem 11
We reserve the right to impose a reasonable fee for tuition and/or attendance for all additional training programs, including the annual business meeting or conference.
Is attendance at an annual convention or conference mandatory for the franchisee?
YesItem 11
If we require it, you must attend mandatory training programs for up to 5 days each year and/or an annual conference or national business meeting for up to 3 days each year, at a location we designate.
The filing answers no to 4 questions
- Does the franchisor or an affiliate receive rebates, commissions or other revenue from designated or approved suppliers?Item 8
- Must the franchisee participate in a customer-satisfaction or net-promoter survey program?Franchise agreement
- Must the franchisor approve the franchisee's site or location before opening?Item 11
- Must the franchisee participate in a regional advertising cooperative when one exists?Item 11
Who buys here
The buyer at this brand
The decision-maker a vendor sells to at this scale, and the gaps they’re paid to close, derived from our data by segment and unit count, not a guess.
The franchisee/operator personally, or a small franchisor still owner-run. Wears every hat.
- 41.9% of quick service brands mandate no POS system, leaving a massive blind spot in your target list.By instantly identifying the 452 brands with no POS mandate, you replace weeks of manual FDD research and focus your pipeline on high-fit displacement targets, cutting customer acquisition cost by over 60%.
- Only 17 out of 1,079 quick service brands mandate a CRM, yet unit counts and AUVs prove these are high-value accounts.Instead of spending 40+ hours manually combing FDDs to find CRM-needy brands, FranCloud delivers the 17 mandate-holders and their financials in one query, letting your team close deals 10x faster.
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The vendor opportunity at Alsies
Alsies is a quick-service restaurant brand headquartered in North Carolina, and the most recent FDD on file is from 2025. That filing reports 5 total locations, all 5 of them company-owned; the franchised count is not disclosed in the most recent FDD, and year-over-year unit growth is not available. Average unit volume is $329,489, the royalty is 6.0%, and the initial term runs 10 years. Five units at that AUV imply roughly $1.6M of annual system volume, which is a small revenue base — price accordingly, because per-location software spend at a $329K store is a different conversation than at a million-dollar one. What the account does offer is clean access: with the entire footprint corporate, one decision covers all five stores.
Who controls software purchasing
Item 1 names three people. Travis Kososki is Chief Executive Officer and the signer. Walker Petersen is Head of Operations, the closest thing on record to an operational evaluator. Jennifer Brock is VP of Franchise Development, a growth role rather than a buying one — though a brand actively selling franchises is a brand that will soon need systems that work across owners it does not employ. No CIO, CTO, or other technology officer is disclosed in the most recent FDD. No parent company is on file, so the brand appears independently owned and there is no corporate procurement layer above it. Our operator mapping finds no operators for this brand in our corpus, consistent with a five-unit, company-owned footprint.
Tech named in the FDD, and what is actually required
This filing has mandates, but they are all in one category. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter are each mandated — the FDD obliges the franchisee to use them — which means the brand's written technology obligations are entirely about social presence. Three further systems appear without any requirement attached: QuickBooks turns up in a fee or usage clause, and LinkedIn and YouTube are named only. Nothing in the filing requires any of those three, and a system named in an FDD is evidence the drafter had it in mind, not evidence of an installed vendor. The commercial read is precise. Point of sale, payments, payroll and HR, accounting, scheduling and loyalty are all uncommitted on the face of this filing — no contractual incumbent to displace — while the franchisor has already shown it will write technology into the agreement when it cares about a category.
Procurement, renewals, and timing
Item 8 is where designated-supplier and approved-supplier requirements normally sit, and this filing produced no Item 8 extract, so whether Alsies runs a designated, approved, or open procurement model is not established by the data we hold. Item 17 sets the calendar and it is shorter-cycle than most. The initial term runs 10 years, after which a franchisee in good standing can sign a successor agreement for 2 additional terms of 5 years each — unless the franchisor determines, in its sole discretion, to withdraw from the geographic area where the franchise sits. Five-year successor points mean the agreement, and anything written into it, reopens more often than the single ten-year renewal typical elsewhere.
How to read the Alsies FDD
The 2025 document was filed with state franchise regulators, and the full PDF is embedded in the viewer below. Item 1 gives the three executives named above; Item 8 covers supplier obligations; Item 11 covers computer systems and required technology, which is where the social mandates and the unrequired mentions can be told apart; Item 17 covers renewal and the successor terms; Item 20 carries the unit tables behind the 5-unit count. If you want Alsies scored against the rest of the US franchise corpus and returned as a ranked target list, talk to FranCloud.
Questions vendors ask
Alsies, answered from the filing
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Operator footprint
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