DAME Fine Coffee June 16, 2025 19 10 You must purchase the computer equipment, hardware, and software necessary for operating the franchise. We currently require you to have and use 1 cash draw, 1 stand, 1 terminal, Square POS, and Hazlnut Mobile App. We do not know if the amounts you pay for the computer equipment may be refundable. The amounts you pay for computer equipment are typically non-refundable, or if refundable, may be subject to a “restocking” fee. You should inquire about the return and refund policy of the suppliers at or before the time of purchasing. You must use the POS system that we designate. 11 Included in this estimate are expenses related to pre-opening payroll, cleaning and preparation, telephone and other communication expenses, and electricity. Monies paid for pre-opening payroll, cleaning and preparation, telephone and other communication expenses, and electricity are typically not refundable. 12 The cost of initial training for you and your Franchised Business Designated Manager and Franchised Business owners is included in the Initial Franchise Fee. The amount in the table above reflects your travel and stay expenses during the initial training. You must pay us additional tuition for additional trainees beyond you and your designee at our then-current rate, which is currently $250 per training, per person and $250 per day plus travel expenses for onsite training. Monies paid for travel may be refundable if you have or purchase travel insurance or by policy of the hotel or airline. You should contact the airline or hotel for more information. 13 State and local government agencies typically charge fees for occupancy permits, operating licenses, health department licenses and construction permits. Your actual costs may vary from the estimates based on the requirements of state and local government agencies. These fees are typically non-refundable. You should inquire about the cancellation and refund policy of the agencies at or before the time of payment. 14 You will need to employ an attorney, an accountant, and other consultants to assist you in establishing your franchise. These fees may vary from location to location depending on the prevailing rates of local attorneys, accountants, and consultants. These fees are typically non-refundable. You should inquire about the refund policy of the attorney, accountant, or consultant at or before the time of hiring. 15 This is the recommended amount that you spend on advertising upon opening. The range will depend on your Territory and local market demographics. Monies paid for advertising may be refundable if advertising is customized or if you contract the provider before publication deadlines. You should contact advertise vendors for more information. 16 We recommend that you have a minimum amount of money available to cover operating expenses, including additional inventory, supplies, professional fees, and employees’ salaries for the 3 months for working capital when commence operation of the Franchised Business and at all times during the tenure of your Franchised Business operations. The predominant factors for calculating the 3-month estimate are amounts paid for employee wages and inventory. These expenses are typically non-refundable.
From the filings
DAME Fine Coffee
Quick service restaurantDAME Fine Coffee operates as a quick-service restaurant brand, but its most recent Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) leaves many traditional vendor-entry data points undisclosed. For software sellers, this means the total addressable unit count, decision-making structure, and existing tech stack are not publicly mapped in the FDD. The information below reflects exactly what is — and isn’t — available to inform your go-to-market strategy.
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Live signals
Ordinary royalty terms
Complete royalty terms unconfirmed
Complete royalty terms are not confirmed for the selected filing.
Mandated & recommended tech
The systems vendors compete with
1 technology requirement is recorded in this filing. A required choice lists alternatives for one obligation. Read each cited clause for its conditions.
Franchisor behaviours
What the franchisor requires
22 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 4 explicit no's; 8 questions the text does not settle, which is not a no.
Accounting
Does the franchisor have direct or independent electronic access to the franchisee's financial, sales or customer records?
YesFranchise agreement
You must provide us with independent access to all of the information generated DAME Fine Coffee June 16, 2025 31 and stored on your computer system if we request it, including the delivery of database backup.
How the franchisor buys
Is the franchisor or an affiliate itself a supplier of required products, services or systems?
YesFranchise agreement
Dillan Vancil, our Founder, has an ownership in D & D Specialty Distribution, LLC, the sole exclusive supplier of daily supplies to DAME Fine Coffee 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?
50Franchise agreement
approximately 50% of your ongoing costs of operating your DAME Fine Coffee Franchised Business.
Does the franchisor charge a fee to evaluate a proposed supplier?
YesFranchise agreement
of costs and Supplier When other than the supplier we expenses Franchisor incurs in Approval applicable designate, we may require approving a supplier that you reimburse us for the costs and expenses we incur in approving the supplier.
Communications
Does the franchisor own or control the business telephone numbers, or take them over when the agreement ends?
YesFranchise agreement
at our option, assign to us (i) telephone numbers of the Franchised Business and all related Yellow Pages, White Pages, and other business listings
Franchise management
Does the franchisor conduct periodic inspections, audits or evaluations of the franchised business?
YesItem 1
Evaluation Access
Must the franchisor approve the franchisee's site or location before opening?
YesFranchise agreement
Your site is subject to our approval (Section IV of the Franchise Agreement).
Marketing
Is the franchisee prohibited from operating its own website or social media accounts, or required to use pages the franchisor provides?
YesFranchise agreement
You may not establish or maintain a domain name, an internet website, or a webpage that relates to or advertises your DAME Fine Coffee Franchised Business or displays the Marks, as we reserve the exclusive right to control any websites or web pages concerning DAME Fine Coffee Franchise Businesses and the Marks.
Is the franchisee required to spend a minimum amount on local advertising or marketing, as a percentage of sales or a fixed amount?
YesFranchise agreement
You must spend sufficient money and resources and conduct advertising and public relations within the local area to promote your DAME Fine Coffee Franchised Business.
Must the franchisee participate in a customer loyalty or rewards program?
YesFranchise agreement
You must fully participate in all guest loyalty, consumer DAME Fine Coffee June 16, 2025 29 relations management programs (CRM), or frequent customer programs that we have adopted or approved now or in the future.
Must the franchisee participate in a regional advertising cooperative when one exists?
YesFranchise agreement
If your Territory is within the geographic boundaries of a Region or Local Cooperative that we designate, you will be required to participate in the cooperative.
Operations
Must the franchisee buy products from a designated distributor?
YesFranchise agreement
You are required to purchase coffee beans, equipment and machines, syrups, sauces, cups, straws, pumps, energy concentrates, refreshers, and drinks from suppliers and vendors that we designate or approve.
Must equipment be purchased from designated or approved suppliers?
YesFranchise agreement
For any product or service we designate as an approved supplier, you may not purchase these products and services from other suppliers.
Payments
Are royalties and other fees collected by automatic bank debit (ACH or electronic funds transfer) from the franchisee's account?
YesFranchise agreement
1 If you do timely reported your Gross Revenues to Franchisor for any reporting period, then we shall be authorized to debit your account in an amount equal to 125% of the Royalty Fees and other fees and amounts payable by you for the last reporting period for which a statement of operations was received from…
Must the franchisee participate in a gift card program?
YesFranchise agreement
You must participate in all gift certificates, loyalty programs, and gift card administration programs, as we may be designated occasionally.
People
Does the franchisor require minimum staffing levels or specific roles?
YesFranchise agreement
You must maintain a competent, conscientious, trained staff (who shall have been adequately trained per Franchisor Standards) in numbers sufficient to service customers promptly and properly, including at least a trained manager (or other trained supervisory employees in accordance with the Operating Manual) on duty…
Must employees wear uniforms specified by the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
Your DAME Fine Coffee employees and staff must wear uniforms that conform to DAME Fine Coffee specifications, which are contained in the DAME Fine Coffee Operating Manual.
Point of sale
Must the franchisee use a specific point-of-sale system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
You must use the POS system that we designate.
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?
YesFranchise agreement
You must provide us with independent access to all of the information generated DAME Fine Coffee June 16, 2025 31 and stored on your computer system if we request it, including the delivery of database backup.
Sales and CRM
Must the franchisee use a CRM system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
You must fully participate in all guest loyalty, consumer DAME Fine Coffee June 16, 2025 29 relations management programs (CRM), or frequent customer
Training
Can the franchisor charge the franchisee for additional, refresher or remedial training?
YesFranchise agreement
We may provide additional training programs at reasonable times and locations selected by us during the term of the Franchise Agreement.
Is attendance at an annual convention or conference mandatory for the franchisee?
YesFranchise agreement
You must attend the national convention.
The filing answers no to 4 questions
- Is there a franchisee advisory council, association or committee?Franchise agreement
- Does the franchisor or an affiliate receive rebates, commissions or other revenue from designated or approved suppliers?Franchise agreement
- Can a franchisee propose a new supplier for the franchisor's approval?Franchise agreement
- Is a minimum grand opening advertising spend required?Franchise agreement
The vendor opportunity at DAME Fine Coffee
DAME Fine Coffee is a quick-service restaurant concept whose 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document provides very limited visibility for software vendors. Total unit counts — both franchised and company-owned — are not disclosed. For a vendor evaluating whether to allocate sales resources, the addressable market remains undefined in the public record.
The brand appears to be independently owned, with no parent company on file. No operator footprint has been mapped in our corpus, meaning the geographic distribution and concentration of units are unknown. This lack of structural data makes it difficult to size the opportunity or prioritize DAME Fine Coffee against other franchise targets without additional primary research.
Who controls software purchasing
The 2025 FDD does not list any headquarters executives in Item 1. Without named leadership, it is impossible to identify a CIO, VP of Technology, or operations executive who would typically own software purchasing decisions. The decision-making level — whether centralized at the franchisor, distributed to multi-unit operators, or mixed — is not signaled by any mandate or procurement language in the disclosure. Vendors should assume that the buying center is unknown and plan discovery accordingly.
Mandated and current tech stack
No technology systems or vendors are mandated or recommended in the 2025 FDD. This includes point-of-sale, back-office, inventory, labor scheduling, loyalty, or any other operational software category. The absence of a named tech stack means there is no public baseline to assess displacement opportunities or integration requirements. A vendor’s initial conversation with the brand would need to uncover the current technology environment from scratch.
Procurement, renewals, and timing
Item 8 of the FDD, which typically outlines purchasing requirements and designated suppliers, did not yield an extractable procurement signal in our analysis. Whether DAME Fine Coffee imposes a centralized purchasing program, maintains an approved-vendor list, or allows franchisees open discretion is not stated. Similarly, Item 17 — covering renewal, termination, and transfer — provides no extractable data on contract cycles or renewal windows. Without term lengths or renewal cadences, software vendors cannot model likely contract opening periods.
How to read the DAME Fine Coffee FDD
The full 2025 DAME Fine Coffee Franchise Disclosure Document is available below. It is filed with state franchise regulators and contains the legal and operational disclosures required under the FTC Franchise Rule. For software vendors, the FDD is the starting point for understanding any franchise brand’s structure, obligations, and constraints — even when, as in this case, many data points are not publicly disclosed. Review the document to confirm the gaps outlined here and identify any additional signals that may inform your outreach.
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Ordinary royalty terms
Complete royalty terms are not confirmed.
Questions vendors ask
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Operator footprint
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