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DQ OF NE IL-0426 44 86313580;1 You must purchase and maintain a monthly subscription service for credit card processing, which includes the TransArmor solution encryption, from ADQ’s designated supplier Fiserv (formerly, First Data). The cost for credit card processing is about 2% - 5% of the total amount of each sale made using an approved credit card, and the cost for the TransArmor Solution is $19.95 per month. You also must purchase and pay for Verifone payment card data encryption services at a cost of about $10 per terminal per month, and for a Verifone payment device warranty at a cost of about $80 per device per 3-year warranty. You also must purchase and maintain a managed firewall service from ADQ’s designated suppler Scale Computing (formerly, Acumera). The cost for this service is about $51 per month. Also, you must comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/. While you are not required to engage a 3rd party supplier to ensure compliance with PCI Data Security Standards (unless otherwise required to do so by your card processor), we and ADQ recommend that you do so, and ADQ estimates the initial cost of this to be $200 - $2,000, with an ongoing monthly fee of up to $100. You must participate in the system-wide gift card program administered by ValueLink, LLC and DQGC, and must sign the gift card participation agreement included in this disclosure document as Exhibit E. Gift card program fees are allocated based on a shared cost model between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF. Currently, franchisees and subfranchisees pay fees equaling 3% of total gift card redemptions, which ADQ estimates will be about $200 per year per location. The NMF covers the balance of the gift card program's costs. In the future, the percentage allocation of costs between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF may change. These costs are in addition to any costs incurred by you in purchasing gift cards. All of the fees referenced in this section are to subject to change from time to time. Site Selection. You must locate and obtain a site for your store or restaurant that meets our standards and that is acceptable to us, within 90 days after the date you sign the operating agreement. If you already have a potential site for a DQ store or restaurant, you may propose the location to us. We may consent to the site after we have evaluated it. If you do not have a proposed site, we will furnish you with general site selection and evaluation criteria. Each proposed site must receive our written consent. This is true even if we or ADQ identify a site (as described below). The general site selection and evaluation criteria that you should consider include the quality of the trade area and strategic fit of the site within the trade area, residential and daytime employment, attributes of the trade area that generate potential traffic patterns, ease of ingress and egress, physical attractiveness of the real estate, demographic information and consumer behavior information, competition, signage, site and building design requirements or restrictions, end-cap with drive-thru capability on shopping centers, local marketing support and similar factors. You must obtain our and ADQ’s approval of the building plans and location before beginning construction of the store or restaurant. In certain circumstances, we or ADQ may identify a site for a store or restaurant and may assist in purchase or lease negotiations. You are under no obligation to accept the proposed site. Our or ADQ’s identification of, consent to or acceptance of a site for a store or restaurant does not constitute a guarantee, recommendation, assurance or endorsement as to the success of the site or your store or restaurant. Our or ADQ’s consent indicates only that we or ADQ believe that the particular site falls within our or ADQ’s criteria as of the time period encompassing the evaluation. Application of site criteria that have been effective for other sites does not predict the potential success of any specific site.

DQ OF NE IL-0426 44 86313580;1 You must purchase and maintain a monthly subscription service for credit card processing, which includes the TransArmor solution encryption, from ADQ’s designated supplier Fiserv (formerly, First Data). The cost for credit card processing is about 2% - 5% of the total amount of each sale made using an approved credit card, and the cost for the TransArmor Solution is $19.95 per month. You also must purchase and pay for Verifone payment card data encryption services at a cost of about $10 per terminal per month, and for a Verifone payment device warranty at a cost of about $80 per device per 3-year warranty. You also must purchase and maintain a managed firewall service from ADQ’s designated suppler Scale Computing (formerly, Acumera). The cost for this service is about $51 per month. Also, you must comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/. While you are not required to engage a 3rd party supplier to ensure compliance with PCI Data Security Standards (unless otherwise required to do so by your card processor), we and ADQ recommend that you do so, and ADQ estimates the initial cost of this to be $200 - $2,000, with an ongoing monthly fee of up to $100. You must participate in the system-wide gift card program administered by ValueLink, LLC and DQGC, and must sign the gift card participation agreement included in this disclosure document as Exhibit E. Gift card program fees are allocated based on a shared cost model between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF. Currently, franchisees and subfranchisees pay fees equaling 3% of total gift card redemptions, which ADQ estimates will be about $200 per year per location. The NMF covers the balance of the gift card program's costs. In the future, the percentage allocation of costs between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF may change. These costs are in addition to any costs incurred by you in purchasing gift cards. All of the fees referenced in this section are to subject to change from time to time. Site Selection. You must locate and obtain a site for your store or restaurant that meets our standards and that is acceptable to us, within 90 days after the date you sign the operating agreement. If you already have a potential site for a DQ store or restaurant, you may propose the location to us. We may consent to the site after we have evaluated it. If you do not have a proposed site, we will furnish you with general site selection and evaluation criteria. Each proposed site must receive our written consent. This is true even if we or ADQ identify a site (as described below). The general site selection and evaluation criteria that you should consider include the quality of the trade area and strategic fit of the site within the trade area, residential and daytime employment, attributes of the trade area that generate potential traffic patterns, ease of ingress and egress, physical attractiveness of the real estate, demographic information and consumer behavior information, competition, signage, site and building design requirements or restrictions, end-cap with drive-thru capability on shopping centers, local marketing support and similar factors. You must obtain our and ADQ’s approval of the building plans and location before beginning construction of the store or restaurant. In certain circumstances, we or ADQ may identify a site for a store or restaurant and may assist in purchase or lease negotiations. You are under no obligation to accept the proposed site. Our or ADQ’s identification of, consent to or acceptance of a site for a store or restaurant does not constitute a guarantee, recommendation, assurance or endorsement as to the success of the site or your store or restaurant. Our or ADQ’s consent indicates only that we or ADQ believe that the particular site falls within our or ADQ’s criteria as of the time period encompassing the evaluation. Application of site criteria that have been effective for other sites does not predict the potential success of any specific site.

DQ OF NE IL-0426 34 86313580;1 IDQ and its affiliates receive fees or payments from some 3 rd party suppliers that may or may not be reasonably related to services IDQ or its affiliates provide to the suppliers. Some arrangements with 3rd party suppliers require IDQ or its affiliates to perform services, such as administrative, technical, quality assurance, advisory, data collection, customer service, or promotion forecasting services. As of the date of this disclosure document, IDQ and its affiliates received fees and payments from 3rd party suppliers ranging from 0% to 10% of the suppliers’ sales to franchisees, or of sales to warehouses in the U.S. of the following types of items used in the operation of DQ stores or restaurants: products, ingredients, supplies, equipment, uniforms, signage, fixtures, furnishings, advertising, and sales promotion materials. These fees and payments are calculated and paid to us as a percentage or as a flat fee amount. The fees and payments, and the amounts listed below, may be adjusted in the future. Also, USCI authorized warehouses to pay a fee to USCI equal to up to 0.5% of their gross sales of products moving through the DQ system. IDQ and its affiliates may receive fees and payments from 3rd party suppliers in greater amounts with respect to items not used in the operation of DQ stores or restaurants, such as items sold under merchandise licensing programs or other similar arrangements. For example, ADQ may grant a license to a manufacturer to allow it to place ADQ’s trademarks on sportswear or advertising specialty products. In 2025, IDQ derived revenue of $41,178,777 from the net sale of products, marketing kits, real estate finance and rental fees, insurance, and supplier service fees. This amount equaled about 15% of IDQ’s total revenue of $266,139,027, based on IDQ’s consolidated and audited statement of income for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. Although not considered revenue, ADQ and its affiliates received payments in 2025 from 3rd party suppliers that were accounted for as DQ national or DMA advertising fund receipts totaling about $2,053,267, which included $690,000 from various 3rd party suppliers, and $1,363,267 from soft drink suppliers. As of the date of this disclosure document, ADQ anticipates that ADQ and its affiliates will receive similar amounts from 3rd party suppliers in 2026. These payments may be percentage payments based on sales to franchisees, lump sums, reimbursements, or similar types of payments. ADQ or its affiliates also may receive payments in connection with conferences hosted by ADQ or its affiliates, or in connection with other unique activities or initiatives, and these payments may, in consultation with the franchisee SCAC, be used in various ways to benefit the DQ system. Fee and payment arrangements in foreign countries may differ from arrangements in the U.S. Ownership Interests in Suppliers. As of December 31, 2025, none of our officers owned interests in companies that supply products or services to the DQ system. As of December 31, 2025, some ADQ officers owned interests in the following companies that supply products or services to the DQ system: Cargill, Google Analytics/Firebase, Kimberly- Clark Corporation, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corporation, Olo, Pepsico, Uber Technologies Inc., Verizon Wireless, and Wells Fargo. As noted in Item 1, ADQ’s parent company is IDQ, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (“Berkshire”), a holding company owning a large number of subsidiaries engaged in diverse businesses. ADQ officers may own shares of Berkshire, although officers do not own interests in the individual subsidiaries.

DQ OF NE IL-0426 34 86313580;1 IDQ and its affiliates receive fees or payments from some 3 rd party suppliers that may or may not be reasonably related to services IDQ or its affiliates provide to the suppliers. Some arrangements with 3rd party suppliers require IDQ or its affiliates to perform services, such as administrative, technical, quality assurance, advisory, data collection, customer service, or promotion forecasting services. As of the date of this disclosure document, IDQ and its affiliates received fees and payments from 3rd party suppliers ranging from 0% to 10% of the suppliers’ sales to franchisees, or of sales to warehouses in the U.S. of the following types of items used in the operation of DQ stores or restaurants: products, ingredients, supplies, equipment, uniforms, signage, fixtures, furnishings, advertising, and sales promotion materials. These fees and payments are calculated and paid to us as a percentage or as a flat fee amount. The fees and payments, and the amounts listed below, may be adjusted in the future. Also, USCI authorized warehouses to pay a fee to USCI equal to up to 0.5% of their gross sales of products moving through the DQ system. IDQ and its affiliates may receive fees and payments from 3rd party suppliers in greater amounts with respect to items not used in the operation of DQ stores or restaurants, such as items sold under merchandise licensing programs or other similar arrangements. For example, ADQ may grant a license to a manufacturer to allow it to place ADQ’s trademarks on sportswear or advertising specialty products. In 2025, IDQ derived revenue of $41,178,777 from the net sale of products, marketing kits, real estate finance and rental fees, insurance, and supplier service fees. This amount equaled about 15% of IDQ’s total revenue of $266,139,027, based on IDQ’s consolidated and audited statement of income for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. Although not considered revenue, ADQ and its affiliates received payments in 2025 from 3rd party suppliers that were accounted for as DQ national or DMA advertising fund receipts totaling about $2,053,267, which included $690,000 from various 3rd party suppliers, and $1,363,267 from soft drink suppliers. As of the date of this disclosure document, ADQ anticipates that ADQ and its affiliates will receive similar amounts from 3rd party suppliers in 2026. These payments may be percentage payments based on sales to franchisees, lump sums, reimbursements, or similar types of payments. ADQ or its affiliates also may receive payments in connection with conferences hosted by ADQ or its affiliates, or in connection with other unique activities or initiatives, and these payments may, in consultation with the franchisee SCAC, be used in various ways to benefit the DQ system. Fee and payment arrangements in foreign countries may differ from arrangements in the U.S. Ownership Interests in Suppliers. As of December 31, 2025, none of our officers owned interests in companies that supply products or services to the DQ system. As of December 31, 2025, some ADQ officers owned interests in the following companies that supply products or services to the DQ system: Cargill, Google Analytics/Firebase, Kimberly- Clark Corporation, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corporation, Olo, Pepsico, Uber Technologies Inc., Verizon Wireless, and Wells Fargo. As noted in Item 1, ADQ’s parent company is IDQ, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (“Berkshire”), a holding company owning a large number of subsidiaries engaged in diverse businesses. ADQ officers may own shares of Berkshire, although officers do not own interests in the individual subsidiaries.

DQ OF NE IL-0426 43 86313580;1 peripherals, back office workstation, a managed firewall and installation. If you are opening a new DQ store or restaurant, you must purchase all of the components of the EPOS system from our and ADQ’s designated suppliers (see Item 8). ). The estimated initial cost to purchase the EPOS system hardware and installation from ADQ’s designated supplier ParTech, Inc., hardware for the Scale Computing managed firewall, and the launch fee for the Data Central back office software, will range from about $24,800 to $30,700 for a DQ Treat store, or about $29,850 to $38,650 for a DQ Grill & Chill restaurant. The EPOS system is an electronic cash and credit management system, which provides an interface for processing customer orders, collecting and managing information about the nature of sales transactions, providing financial records of those transactions, managing product inventory, and providing time and attendance functionality for your employees. The EPOS system will collect and report to us and ADQ a variety of information including overall sales, sales levels by item, item menu pricing, product movement statistics, individual unit and category sales data (including by flavor and size), various financial information to prepare store or restaurant reports, and other information. The EPOS system may contain components that support personnel-related functions, such as employee timekeeping, employee scheduling and payroll processing. Your use of those components is non-mandatory. You are permitted to use those non-mandatory components on terms we specify, or you have the right to use alternate software of your choosing to handle personnel-related functions in any other manner that you choose. Neither we, nor ADQ, nor any of our or ADQ’s affiliates, is obligated to provide any ongoing maintenance, repairs, upgrades or updates to you. You must pay ADQ’s designated supplier for ongoing hardware warranty services for the EPOS system, which cost about $74 to $155 per month for a DQ Treat store, or about $74 to $155 per month for a DQ Grill & Chill restaurant, depending on the warranty package you choose. In addition, as part of the ongoing software fees you will pay to some of the designated suppliers, the suppliers are obligated to provide certain maintenance and repair services for their software. You must make periodic upgrades and updates to the EPOS system, and there are no contractual limitations on the frequency and cost of this requirement. In addition to paying initial costs for the EPOS system, you must pay monthly service fees for the ParBrink, Data Central, Olo and Punchh software for the EPOS system, back office systems, and mobile app ranging from $416 to $490 per month for a DQ Grill & Chill restaurant or from $416 to $490 per month for a DQ Treat store. You also must pay Olo a per transaction fee of 0.25% for each order processed by Olo. Help desk and software support costs are included in these monthly service fees. Copies of the participation agreements that you must sign with these vendors are included in this disclosure documents as Exhibit P and Q. To enable us and ADQ to access the EPOS system, you must install one DSL or cable/broadband Internet connection, or other necessary communication access device, that is exclusively designated and permanently connected to the EPOS system. There are no contractual limitations on our and ADQ's right to access the information generated by the EPOS system, although we or ADQ may choose not to poll information from all stores and restaurants. You must have access at all times to the Internet, must maintain and regularly use an active email account or other form of electronic communication that we and ADQ designate, and must keep us and ADQ informed of your contact information.

DQ OF NE IL-0426 43 86313580;1 peripherals, back office workstation, a managed firewall and installation. If you are opening a new DQ store or restaurant, you must purchase all of the components of the EPOS system from our and ADQ’s designated suppliers (see Item 8). ). The estimated initial cost to purchase the EPOS system hardware and installation from ADQ’s designated supplier ParTech, Inc., hardware for the Scale Computing managed firewall, and the launch fee for the Data Central back office software, will range from about $24,800 to $30,700 for a DQ Treat store, or about $29,850 to $38,650 for a DQ Grill & Chill restaurant. The EPOS system is an electronic cash and credit management system, which provides an interface for processing customer orders, collecting and managing information about the nature of sales transactions, providing financial records of those transactions, managing product inventory, and providing time and attendance functionality for your employees. The EPOS system will collect and report to us and ADQ a variety of information including overall sales, sales levels by item, item menu pricing, product movement statistics, individual unit and category sales data (including by flavor and size), various financial information to prepare store or restaurant reports, and other information. The EPOS system may contain components that support personnel-related functions, such as employee timekeeping, employee scheduling and payroll processing. Your use of those components is non-mandatory. You are permitted to use those non-mandatory components on terms we specify, or you have the right to use alternate software of your choosing to handle personnel-related functions in any other manner that you choose. Neither we, nor ADQ, nor any of our or ADQ’s affiliates, is obligated to provide any ongoing maintenance, repairs, upgrades or updates to you. You must pay ADQ’s designated supplier for ongoing hardware warranty services for the EPOS system, which cost about $74 to $155 per month for a DQ Treat store, or about $74 to $155 per month for a DQ Grill & Chill restaurant, depending on the warranty package you choose. In addition, as part of the ongoing software fees you will pay to some of the designated suppliers, the suppliers are obligated to provide certain maintenance and repair services for their software. You must make periodic upgrades and updates to the EPOS system, and there are no contractual limitations on the frequency and cost of this requirement. In addition to paying initial costs for the EPOS system, you must pay monthly service fees for the ParBrink, Data Central, Olo and Punchh software for the EPOS system, back office systems, and mobile app ranging from $416 to $490 per month for a DQ Grill & Chill restaurant or from $416 to $490 per month for a DQ Treat store. You also must pay Olo a per transaction fee of 0.25% for each order processed by Olo. Help desk and software support costs are included in these monthly service fees. Copies of the participation agreements that you must sign with these vendors are included in this disclosure documents as Exhibit P and Q. To enable us and ADQ to access the EPOS system, you must install one DSL or cable/broadband Internet connection, or other necessary communication access device, that is exclusively designated and permanently connected to the EPOS system. There are no contractual limitations on our and ADQ's right to access the information generated by the EPOS system, although we or ADQ may choose not to poll information from all stores and restaurants. You must have access at all times to the Internet, must maintain and regularly use an active email account or other form of electronic communication that we and ADQ designate, and must keep us and ADQ informed of your contact information. DQ OF NE IL-0426 44 86313580;1 You must purchase and maintain a monthly subscription service for credit card processing, which includes the TransArmor solution encryption, from ADQ’s designated supplier Fiserv (formerly, First Data). The cost for credit card processing is about 2% - 5% of the total amount of each sale made using an approved credit card, and the cost for the TransArmor Solution is $19.95 per month. You also must purchase and pay for Verifone payment card data encryption services at a cost of about $10 per terminal per month, and for a Verifone payment device warranty at a cost of about $80 per device per 3-year warranty. You also must purchase and maintain a managed firewall service from ADQ’s designated suppler Scale Computing (formerly, Acumera). The cost for this service is about $51 per month. Also, you must comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/. While you are not required to engage a 3rd party supplier to ensure compliance with PCI Data Security Standards (unless otherwise required to do so by your card processor), we and ADQ recommend that you do so, and ADQ estimates the initial cost of this to be $200 - $2,000, with an ongoing monthly fee of up to $100. You must participate in the system-wide gift card program administered by ValueLink, LLC and DQGC, and must sign the gift card participation agreement included in this disclosure document as Exhibit E. Gift card program fees are allocated based on a shared cost model between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF. Currently, franchisees and subfranchisees pay fees equaling 3% of total gift card redemptions, which ADQ estimates will be about $200 per year per location. The NMF covers the balance of the gift card program's costs. In the future, the percentage allocation of costs between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF may change. These costs are in addition to any costs incurred by you in purchasing gift cards. All of the fees referenced in this section are to subject to change from time to time. Site Selection. You must locate and obtain a site for your store or restaurant that meets our standards and that is acceptable to us, within 90 days after the date you sign the operating agreement. If you already have a potential site for a DQ store or restaurant, you may propose the location to us. We may consent to the site after we have evaluated it. If you do not have a proposed site, we will furnish you with general site selection and evaluation criteria. Each proposed site must receive our written consent. This is true even if we or ADQ identify a site (as described below). The general site selection and evaluation criteria that you should consider include the quality of the trade area and strategic fit of the site within the trade area, residential and daytime employment, attributes of the trade area that generate potential traffic patterns, ease of ingress and egress, physical attractiveness of the real estate, demographic information and consumer behavior information, competition, signage, site and building design requirements or restrictions, end-cap with drive-thru capability on shopping centers, local marketing support and similar factors. You must obtain our and ADQ’s approval of the building plans and location before beginning construction of the store or restaurant. In certain circumstances, we or ADQ may identify a site for a store or restaurant and may assist in purchase or lease negotiations. You are under no obligation to accept the proposed site. Our or ADQ’s identification of, consent to or acceptance of a site for a store or restaurant does not constitute a guarantee, recommendation, assurance or endorsement as to the success of the site or your store or restaurant. Our or ADQ’s consent indicates only that we or ADQ believe that the particular site falls within our or ADQ’s criteria as of the time period encompassing the evaluation. Application of site criteria that have been effective for other sites does not predict the potential success of any specific site.

DQ OF NE IL-0426 44 86313580;1 You must purchase and maintain a monthly subscription service for credit card processing, which includes the TransArmor solution encryption, from ADQ’s designated supplier Fiserv (formerly, First Data). The cost for credit card processing is about 2% - 5% of the total amount of each sale made using an approved credit card, and the cost for the TransArmor Solution is $19.95 per month. You also must purchase and pay for Verifone payment card data encryption services at a cost of about $10 per terminal per month, and for a Verifone payment device warranty at a cost of about $80 per device per 3-year warranty. You also must purchase and maintain a managed firewall service from ADQ’s designated suppler Scale Computing (formerly, Acumera). The cost for this service is about $51 per month. Also, you must comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/. While you are not required to engage a 3rd party supplier to ensure compliance with PCI Data Security Standards (unless otherwise required to do so by your card processor), we and ADQ recommend that you do so, and ADQ estimates the initial cost of this to be $200 - $2,000, with an ongoing monthly fee of up to $100. You must participate in the system-wide gift card program administered by ValueLink, LLC and DQGC, and must sign the gift card participation agreement included in this disclosure document as Exhibit E. Gift card program fees are allocated based on a shared cost model between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF. Currently, franchisees and subfranchisees pay fees equaling 3% of total gift card redemptions, which ADQ estimates will be about $200 per year per location. The NMF covers the balance of the gift card program's costs. In the future, the percentage allocation of costs between subfranchisees, franchisees and the NMF may change. These costs are in addition to any costs incurred by you in purchasing gift cards. All of the fees referenced in this section are to subject to change from time to time. Site Selection. You must locate and obtain a site for your store or restaurant that meets our standards and that is acceptable to us, within 90 days after the date you sign the operating agreement. If you already have a potential site for a DQ store or restaurant, you may propose the location to us. We may consent to the site after we have evaluated it. If you do not have a proposed site, we will furnish you with general site selection and evaluation criteria. Each proposed site must receive our written consent. This is true even if we or ADQ identify a site (as described below). The general site selection and evaluation criteria that you should consider include the quality of the trade area and strategic fit of the site within the trade area, residential and daytime employment, attributes of the trade area that generate potential traffic patterns, ease of ingress and egress, physical attractiveness of the real estate, demographic information and consumer behavior information, competition, signage, site and building design requirements or restrictions, end-cap with drive-thru capability on shopping centers, local marketing support and similar factors. You must obtain our and ADQ’s approval of the building plans and location before beginning construction of the store or restaurant. In certain circumstances, we or ADQ may identify a site for a store or restaurant and may assist in purchase or lease negotiations. You are under no obligation to accept the proposed site. Our or ADQ’s identification of, consent to or acceptance of a site for a store or restaurant does not constitute a guarantee, recommendation, assurance or endorsement as to the success of the site or your store or restaurant. Our or ADQ’s consent indicates only that we or ADQ believe that the particular site falls within our or ADQ’s criteria as of the time period encompassing the evaluation. Application of site criteria that have been effective for other sites does not predict the potential success of any specific site.