Double Bar Cleaning

The vendor opportunity at Double Bar Cleaning

Double Bar Cleaning is a home-services franchise with 35 units, all franchised, operating across roughly 28 locations. The system contracted by about 20 percent year-over-year, which signals both churn risk and potential replacement buying cycles for software vendors. The brand is independently owned—no parent company appears on file—so decisions are not filtered through a private-equity portfolio or a larger holding entity. The top states by unit count are Texas (7), Florida (4), and Georgia (4), with additional presence in Virginia (2) and New York (2). Average unit volume is not disclosed in the 2025 FDD, and the royalty rate sits at 15 percent.

For a software vendor, the addressable base is small but centralized. All 35 units are single-operator locations; there are zero multi-unit franchisees. That means every purchasing conversation runs through a single decision-making channel: the franchisor’s headquarters in New York.

Who controls software purchasing

The 2025 FDD Item 1 lists five executives: President Barbara Reguero, Chief Executive Officer Paul Flick, Chief Operating Officer Roxanne Conrad, Chief Financial Officer J. Patrick Dannelly, and Executive Vice President of Performance Gabriel Colon. In a system this size, the CEO and COO are the most likely software buyers, with the CFO involved on budget and the EVP of Performance potentially influencing operational tools. There is no CIO or CTO on file, so technology evaluation likely falls to operations leadership.

Because no franchisee owns more than one unit, there is no multi-unit operator bloc that could independently adopt a platform and create bottom-up pressure. Vendors should treat this as a pure HQ sale.

Mandated and current tech stack

The 2025 FDD does not capture any mandated or recommended technology systems. No POS vendor, scheduling platform, CRM, or back-office tool is named in the filing. This absence is itself a signal: the franchisor has not prescribed a tech stack, which means units may be using a patchwork of consumer-grade or locally chosen tools. For a vendor, that represents a greenfield opportunity to propose a standardized solution, but it also means you will need to build the business case from scratch—there is no incumbent to displace by mandate.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

Item 8 of the FDD, which typically describes procurement obligations, contains no extract in the current filing. The franchisor’s purchasing model—whether it uses designated suppliers, an approved-supplier list, or an open procurement process—is not publicly disclosed. Vendors should clarify this directly in early conversations with HQ.

Renewal terms are spelled out in Item 17. Franchise agreements run for 10 years. To renew, a franchisee must give notice between 6 and 12 months before expiration, be in compliance with the agreement, pay all amounts owed, sign the then-current form of franchise agreement (which may contain materially different terms), meet current qualification requirements, pay a renewal fee, and sign a general release. The combination of a 10-year term and a recent 20 percent unit decline suggests that some locations may be approaching non-renewal or transfer, creating potential openings for new vendor relationships as units change hands or close.

How to read the Double Bar Cleaning FDD

The full 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document is embedded below. It contains the complete Item 1 executive roster, the unit-count table, the royalty and fee schedule, and the renewal conditions summarized on this page. For software vendors, the most actionable sections are Item 1 (decision-makers), Item 11 (franchisor’s obligations, where tech mandates would appear), and Item 17 (renewal and transfer triggers). Because no tech systems are mandated, the absence of data in Item 11 is as informative as a list would be—it tells you the field is open. If you need a ranked target list of franchise systems matched to your software category, FranCloud can help.