Bonefish Grill

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Franchisee must (i) adopt and follow Franchisor’s fiscal year and periods for accounting purposes, (ii) adopt and follow the accounting principles, policies and practices Franchisor prescribes, including use of Franchisor’s standard chart of accounts, (iii) acquire, install and use the Information Systems Franchisor…

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Franchisee acknowledges that Franchisor may electronically poll Franchisee’s Restaurant’s Information Systems to obtain Net Sales data, as well as other financial and operating information (including but not limited to Customer Data), which shall be available to Franchisor twenty-four hours every day.

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Franchisee shall submit to Franchisor, no later than the tenth (10th) day of each month during the term of this Agreement after the opening of the Restaurant, a remittance report in the form and manner (which may be, at Franchisor’s option, by electronic means) periodically prescribed by Franchisor accurately…

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In some cases, we might arrange for you to buy items directly from the suppliers that we or our affiliates choose, and in other cases we might coordinate the payments from you to the suppliers or sell the items directly to you.

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We reserve the right to require you to purchase equipment, software or services from a vendor or vendors we select, which may be us or our affiliate.

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Other than the IT help desk services discussed above, neither we nor our affiliates derived revenue from products or services sold or leased directly to franchisees during our 2024 fiscal year.

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We and/or our affiliates may derive revenue based on your purchases and leases, including from charging you for products and services that we or our affiliates provide to you (including, but not limited to, purchasing coordination services) and from promotional allowances, volume discounts, rebates and other payments…

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Collectively, the purchases and leases that you must make from us or our affiliates, from designated or approved suppliers, or according to our standards and specifications represent virtually 100% of your purchases and leases in establishing and operating the Restaurant.

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You or the supplier must pay us a fee up to the reasonable cost of the inspection and the actual cost of the test.

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You must send us for our approval any lease or sublease for the Restaurant’s site before you sign it.

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comply at all times with applicable and then-current Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (“PCI DSS”) and other standards Franchisor may specify to protect data from unauthorized access or disclosure.

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Franchisee grants Franchisor and its agents and representatives the right to enter upon the Restaurant premises at any time for the purpose of conducting inspections;

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Franchisor may from time to time revise the contents of the Operations Manual, and Franchisee expressly agrees to comply with each new or changed standard.

Item 12

You may not proceed to develop the Restaurant unless we have accepted the site in writing.

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You may not develop, maintain or authorize any other website, other online presence or other electronic medium (including on social media outlets, including, without limitation, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter, or other similar outlets that may exist in the future) that mentions or describes the Restaurant or…

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For the Restaurant’s opening you must conduct, at your expense, the promotional and advertising activities that we may reasonably require.

Item 6

In addition to your contributions to Multi-Unit Campaigns, you must spend on approved local advertising, marketing and promotions for your Restaurant, or with our prior approval, accrue for subsequent expenditure, on a continuing monthly basis, a percentage of the Net Sales of your Restaurant that we specify…

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You must participate in any customer loyalty and rewards program that we establish from time to time, and you are responsible for your costs associated with your participation in such programs.

Item 8

You must buy virtually all of the goods, services, supplies, fixtures, equipment, inventory, computer hardware and software, real estate, and comparable items related to establishing and operating your Restaurant only from suppliers (including manufacturers, distributors and other sources, including us and our…

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obtain and at all times utilize the services of a credit card processor approved by Franchisor

Item 6

At our option, you must sign and deliver to us the documents that we periodically require to authorize us to debit your business checking account automatically for the royalty fee and other amounts due under the Franchise Agreement or any related agreement between us (or our affiliates) and you.

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You must issue and honor/redeem gift cards, coupons, and loyalty/rewards cards for Bonefish Grill restaurants (and, with respect to loyalty/rewards cards, our affiliated concepts, including Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill, and Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar) and participate in, and comply with the…

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Franchisee shall maintain a competent, trained staff, including at least two fully-trained managers (one of whom may be the Franchise Principal) devoting all of the working time and attention to the on-premises management of the Restaurant

Item 12

Presently, we require you to use POSitouch for your point-of-sale solution with Windows 10 operating system.

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We will have independent, unlimited access to the information that the computer system generates and tracks (other than employee records, as you control exclusively your labor relations and employment practices).

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However, we may periodically require certain of your personnel to participate in additional training programs.