From the filings
DAME 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.
For software vendors selling into US franchise brands.
Franchisor behaviours
16 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 4 explicit no's; 14 questions the text does not settle, which is not a no.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
Who buys here
The decision-maker a vendor sells to at this scale, and the gaps they’re paid to close, derived from our data by segment and unit count, not a guess.
The franchisor's owner/CEO decides; an ops or franchise-development lead may evaluate.
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. Average unit volume, royalty rates, and initial franchise term lengths are similarly absent from the filing. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you need a ranked list of franchise targets with richer data, FranCloud can help you prioritize based on tech mandates, decision-maker visibility, and unit economics.
Questions vendors ask
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FDD alert
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Operator footprint
No franchisee network yet. DAME Fine Coffee’s latest FDD reports no franchised locations.
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Primary franchise filings · updated June 2026. Every figure is source-traceable and QA-checked.