CRS Franchising

Item 11

You must give us unrestricted and independent electronic access (including users IDs and passwords, if necessary) to the Business Management and Technology System for the purposes of obtaining the information relating to the Business and always maintain that access.

Franchise agreement

Upon our written request, by April 15 of each year, you must submit your balance sheet and income statement for the previous calendar year.

Franchise agreement

We may establish an advisory council of franchisees (“Franchisee Advisory Council”) using a form and process set forth in the Manual to advise us on various issues and strategies.

Item 8

We reserve the right to designate ourselves or our affiliates as an approved vendor, or as the only approved vendor, for other products and services in the future.

Item 8

Neither we nor our affiliate earned any revenue from required franchisee purchases in the most recent fiscal year ending December 31, 2024.

Item 8

we and our affiliates may receive rebates, administrative fees, commissions, licensing fees, or other benefits from unaffiliated vendors and distributors from their sales of products or services to franchisees

Item 8

We estimate that the proportion of your required purchases and leases from approved suppliers to all purchases and leases in operating the Business is 10-15%.

Item 8

We may require you to pay a fee to cover our costs of reviewing a proposed vendor.

Item 8

If we require you to use an approved vendor for a particular item, but you wish to purchase the item from a source that we have not approved, you may submit a written request for approval of the vendor, unless it is an item for which we have designated a specific vendor.

Franchise agreement

You acknowledge that as between you and us, we have the sole rights to and interest in all Identifiers.

Item 11

You also must comply with all laws and payment card provider standards relating to the security of the Business Management and Technology System, including, without limitation, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards.

Franchise agreement

Our right to inspect your business records includes records maintained electronically or off-site.

Franchise agreement

You acknowledge that we may amend, modify, or supplement the Manual at any time, so long as such amendments, modifications, or supplements will, in our good faith opinion, benefit us and our existing and future franchisees or will otherwise improve the System.

Item 11

Your site is subject to our approval.

Item 11

You may not establish or maintain any social media sites utilizing any usernames, or otherwise associating with the Marks (as such term is defined in Item 13 below), without our advance written consent.

Item 7

You must pay us at least $2,000 to conduct a grand opening advertising campaign within 90 days following the opening of your Franchise Business in accordance with our specifications.

Franchise agreement

You must spend a minimum of 1% of your Gross Revenues per month on local advertising (“Local Advertising Expenditure”) consistent with the advertising policies set forth in the System Standards.

Item 16

You are also required to participate in any customer loyalty programs we prescribe.

Item 11

If we do so in the future, you must participate in any cooperative advertising or brand awareness program for the region in which your Business is located.

Item 8

If you choose to purchase the Sonic Cleaning System, you must purchase from the supplier we designate.

Franchise agreement

We may require you to purchase merchant processing services from us, our affiliates, or a vendor that we have approved or designated, each of whom may charge a reasonable monthly fee and reasonable per transaction fee.

Franchise agreement

We currently require you to make payment by electronic debit from your specified checking or savings account, and you must complete and sign an Authorization Agreement for Preauthorized Payments for this purpose.

Item 16

You may be required to participate in programs relating to gift cards, gift certificates, stored value cards, online or mobile coupons or credits, online or mobile ordering systems, and other electronic money programs we prescribe for Businesses.

Franchise agreement

You must obtain, maintain, and use the hardware, software, other equipment, and network connections that we specify periodically in the Manual necessary to operate our point-of-sale system, our billing system, and other technology systems that we designate (collectively, the “Business Management and Technology…

Item 11

You must give us unrestricted and independent electronic access (including users IDs and passwords, if necessary) to the Business Management and Technology System for the purposes of obtaining the information relating to the Business and always maintain that access.

Item 11

You must obtain, maintain, and use the hardware, software, other equipment, and network connections that we specify periodically in the Manuals necessary to operate our customer relationship management system and other technology systems that we designate (collectively, the “Business Management and Technology System”).

Franchise agreement

We may require your Required Trainees to participate in refresher or advanced training in each year of the Term.

Franchise agreement

You, your Principal Executive, your trained managers, or any of your representatives that we designate must attend franchise conventions, meetings, product shows or demonstrations, and teleconferences that we or our Area Representative may require periodically in the Manual or otherwise in writing.