Gai Chicken

The vendor opportunity at Gai Chicken

Gai Chicken is a quick-service restaurant brand headquartered in New York, and the most recent FDD on file is from 2023. That filing reports 2 total locations, both 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 $1,242,417, the royalty is 5.0%, and the initial term runs 10 years. Two units at that AUV imply roughly $2.5M of annual system volume, which makes this a design-partner or reference account rather than a seat-count play. The offsetting fact is that both locations are corporate, so one decision covers the whole footprint — there is no rollout to negotiate across independent owners.

Who controls software purchasing

Item 1 names four people. Alpha Omar Bah is Chief Executive Officer and the signer. Chat Suansilphopng is Chief Operations Officer, which in a two-store corporate system is the closest thing on record to an evaluator for anything touching the line. Ace Watanasuparp is Vice President, and Chatchai Huadwattana is Director of Construction — a title worth noting only because it signals build-out activity, which is when in-store systems get specified. No CIO, CTO, or other technology officer is disclosed in the most recent FDD. No parent company is on file, so the brand appears independently owned and there is no corporate procurement layer above it. Our operator mapping finds no operators for this brand in our corpus, consistent with a two-unit, company-owned footprint.

Tech named in the FDD, and what is actually required

The 2023 FDD mandates no technology at all. Three systems appear in the document. QuickBooks Online turns up in a fee or usage clause; ADP and Clover are named only, mentioned in the filing without any obligation attached. Nothing in the document requires any of the three. That distinction is the finding rather than a gap: a system named in an FDD is evidence the drafter had it in mind, not evidence of an installed vendor, so none of the three should be treated as an incumbent to displace or a reference to call. For a vendor, this is the open case — accounting, payroll and HR, and point of sale all sit uncommitted on the face of this filing, with no contractual technology obligation written against an operator to argue with.

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 Gai Chicken runs a designated, approved, or open procurement model is not established by the data we hold. Item 17 is specific. The initial term is 10 years, and the franchise may be renewed for additional ten-year terms by entering into a then-current franchise agreement, which the filing warns may contain materially different terms and conditions. Renewal also requires full compliance with the agreement, capital expenditures as necessary to maintain uniformity with the System, all monetary obligations to the franchisor and its affiliates satisfied, no default under any agreement, timely written notice of intent to renew, compliance with current qualifications and training requirements, a general release, and payment of the renewal fee. The capital-expenditure condition is the useful one — required uniformity spend is when system refreshes get approved.

How to read the Gai Chicken FDD

The 2023 document was filed with state franchise regulators, and the full PDF is embedded in the viewer below. Item 1 gives the four executives named above; Item 8 covers supplier obligations; Item 11 covers computer systems and required technology, which is where the absence of any mandate can be confirmed; Item 17 covers renewal; Item 20 carries the unit tables behind the 2-unit count. If you want Gai Chicken scored against the rest of the US franchise corpus and returned as a ranked target list, talk to FranCloud.