Flamin Feathers

The vendor opportunity at Flamin Feathers

Flamin Feathers is a quick-service restaurant brand headquartered in New Jersey, and the most recent FDD on file is from 2025. That filing reports 3 total locations, all 3 of them company-owned; the franchised count is not disclosed in the most recent FDD, and year-over-year unit growth is not available. Average unit volume is $1,182,188, the royalty is 6.0%, and the initial term runs 10 years. Three units at that AUV imply roughly $3.5M of annual system volume — an early-stage account, and one where the whole footprint is corporate, so a single decision covers every location rather than a rollout campaign across independent owners.

Who controls software purchasing

Item 1 names three people. Muhammad Darr is Chief Executive Officer, Qamar Abbas is Chief Operations Officer, and Ishrat Ilyas is Chief Development Officer. No CIO, CTO, or other technology officer is disclosed in the most recent FDD, so the chief executive is the signer and the operations chief is the closest thing to an evaluator for anything touching the store. No parent company is on file, so the brand appears independently owned and there is no corporate procurement layer above it. Our own operator mapping finds 1 operator, none multi-unit, across roughly 1 located unit — consistent with a three-store, company-owned system where there is no franchisee association or multi-unit operator to route around.

Tech named in the FDD, and what is actually required

The 2025 filing names six systems and mandates exactly one of them. Google Ads is mandated: the FDD obliges the franchisee to use it, which puts paid search under a written obligation. The other five are not required. ADP, Clover and QuickBooks Online each appear in a fee or usage clause, and Facebook and Instagram are named in passing — but nothing in the filing requires any of them. That distinction matters commercially: a system named in an FDD is evidence the drafter had it in mind, not evidence of an installed vendor, so none of the five should be treated as an incumbent to displace. Read plainly, the filing leaves payroll and HR, point of sale, accounting and organic social uncommitted, with paid search as the single category carrying a contractual requirement.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

Item 8 is where designated-supplier and approved-supplier requirements normally sit, and this filing produced no Item 8 extract, so whether Flamin Feathers runs a designated, approved, or open procurement model is not established by the data we hold. Item 17 gives a firmer calendar. The initial term runs 10 years, and while the renewal term length is not disclosed in the most recent FDD, the conditions are: compliance with the franchise agreement, payment of the renewal fee, a signed general release, written notice at least 180 days before expiration, and execution of the then-current agreement, which the filing warns may contain materially different terms and conditions. The 180-day notice is the practical anchor — that window is when the agreement, and any technology written into it, is genuinely open.

How to read the Flamin Feathers FDD

The 2025 document was filed with state franchise regulators, and the full PDF is embedded in the viewer below. Item 1 gives the executives named above; Item 8 covers supplier obligations; Item 11 covers computer systems and required technology, which is where the Google Ads obligation and the unrequired mentions can be told apart; Item 17 covers renewal; Item 20 carries the unit tables behind the 3-unit count. If you want Flamin Feathers scored against the rest of the US franchise corpus and returned as a ranked target list, talk to FranCloud.