Cleanest Restaurant Group Franchise

The vendor opportunity at Cleanest Restaurant Group

Cleanest Restaurant Group Franchise is a quick-service restaurant concept headquartered in New York. According to its 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, the system comprises 17 total units—16 franchised and 1 company-owned. The brand does not report an average unit volume (AUV) in the FDD, and year-over-year unit growth is not disclosed. For software vendors, the addressable market is small but concentrated: 17 locations with a single HQ buyer. The royalty rate is 8.0%, and the initial franchise term is 5 years.

Because the system is compact and centrally managed, a vendor can reach the entire decision-making apparatus with a single conversation. There is no parent company on file; the brand appears independently owned. No field operators are mapped in our corpus, which further concentrates purchasing power at headquarters.

Who controls software purchasing

The 2026 FDD lists four executives in Item 1: Howie Lemon Jr. (President), Carolina Pereira-Lemon (Chief Operating Officer), Victor Cruz (Operation Manager), and Latisha Beck (Assistant Operation Manager). With no regional or area operators identified, the buying center is almost certainly this HQ group. The President and COO are the most likely sponsors for any enterprise software evaluation. Vendors should prepare to engage directly with the C-suite rather than a dedicated IT or procurement function.

Mandated and current tech stack

Cleanest Restaurant Group does not disclose any mandated or recommended technology systems in its 2026 FDD. No POS vendor, back-office platform, payroll provider, or inventory management tool is named. This absence of a tech mandate means the brand either allows franchisees to choose their own tools or has not yet standardized its stack. For a software vendor, that represents an open field: you are not displacing an incumbent, and you can shape the conversation around best practices from the ground up.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

Item 8 of the FDD—which typically describes procurement obligations—contains no extract in our data. It is not publicly known whether the franchisor designates specific suppliers, maintains an approved-supplier list, or operates an open procurement model. Vendors should clarify this directly in early conversations.

On renewals, Item 17 provides a clear signal. Franchisees must be in compliance with their agreement, give 180 days’ prior written notice, sign the then-current form of Franchise Agreement, execute a general release, pay a renewal fee, and meet all other renewal conditions. Owners must also personally guarantee the renewal agreement. The renewal term is 5 years. Because the system is small and growth data is absent, the most predictable software evaluation windows will align with these 5-year renewal cycles. A vendor who maps the initial signing dates of the 16 franchised units can anticipate when franchisees will be re-underwriting their tech stack as part of renewal.

How to read the Cleanest Restaurant Group FDD

The full 2026 FDD is available below in our embedded viewer. It contains the franchisor’s litigation history, audited financials, territory protections, and the complete franchise agreement. For software vendors, the most actionable sections are Item 1 (executives), Item 8 (procurement obligations), Item 11 (franchisor assistance and required purchases), and Item 17 (renewal). Because Item 8 and Item 11 are not populated in our extract, the embedded document is the best way to verify whether any tech mandates or preferred vendors have been added since our last update. Use the FDD to confirm the decision-maker names and to understand the contractual hooks that could drive a technology evaluation.

If you are building a ranked target list of franchise systems that fit your software, FranCloud can help you identify opportunities like Cleanest Restaurant Group and surface the decision-makers who control purchasing.