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From the filings
Jeremiah's Italian Ice
Quick service restaurantSoftware purchasing authority at Jeremiah's Italian Ice is not publicly detailed in the 2024 FDD, with no named HQ executives or mandated technology vendors on file. The brand operates as a quick-service restaurant concept headquartered in Florida, though the total unit count, franchised versus company-owned split, and year-over-year growth are not disclosed in the most recent filing. For vendors, this means the addressable market size and decision-maker level remain unconfirmed without direct discovery.
For software vendors selling into US franchise brands.
Live signals
Total units
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system-wide
Unit growth YoY
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vs prior filing
AUV
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Item 19, 2024
Royalty
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of gross sales
Ad fund
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national + local
Initial fee
$30K
per unit
Investment range
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all-in, Item 7
Procurement
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from the filing
Mandated & recommended tech
The systems vendors compete with
1 of these are mandated in the franchise agreement. Each is named in Item 11 of the filing, the incumbents a challenger must displace or integrate with.
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Franchisor behaviours
What the franchisor requires
31 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 2 explicit no's; 1 question the text does not settle, which is not a no.
Accounting
Must the franchisee use an accounting or bookkeeping system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 5
We have the right to specify the accounting software and a common chart of accounts, and, if we do so, you agree to use that software and chart of accounts (and require your bookkeeper and accountant to do so) in preparing and submitting your financial statements to us.
Does the franchisor have direct or independent electronic access to the franchisee's financial, sales or customer records?
YesItem 5
All of the data that you collect, create, provide, or otherwise develop is and will be owned exclusively by us, and we will have the right to access, download, and use that data in any manner that we deem appropriate without compensation to you.
Must the franchisee submit periodic financial statements (monthly, quarterly or annual) to the franchisor?
YesItem 5
In addition, each month during the term of this Agreement after the opening of the Franchised Business, you agree to submit to us, in a format acceptable to us (or, at our election, in a form that we have specified): (a) a fiscal period and fiscal year-to-date profit and loss statement and a quarterly balance sheet…
How the franchisor buys
Is the franchisor or an affiliate itself a supplier of required products, services or systems?
YesItem 5
we have the right to appoint only one supplier for any particular Product or item (which may be us or one of our affiliates)
Does the franchisor reserve the right to change designated suppliers or systems at any time?
YesItem 5
We reserve the right, at our option, to periodically re-inspect the facilities and products of any approved supplier and to revoke our approval if the supplier does not continue to meet any of our then-current criteria.
How much revenue did the franchisor and its affiliates earn from franchisee purchases in the last fiscal year?
65049Item 5
Our affiliates received $65,049 in revenues from required franchisee purchases and leases.
Does the franchisor or an affiliate receive rebates, commissions or other revenue from designated or approved suppliers?
YesFranchise agreement
You acknowledge and agree that we have the right to collect and retain all manufacturing allowances, marketing allowances, rebates, credits, monies, payments or benefits (collectively, “Allowances”) offered by suppliers to you or to us (or our affiliates) based upon your purchases of Products and other goods and…
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?
95Item 5
We estimate that your product purchases from approved suppliers and according to our specifications will represent approximately 95% of your total product purchases in establishing the Franchised Business, and approximately 95% in the continuing operation of the Franchised Business.
Does the franchisor charge a fee to evaluate a proposed supplier?
YesItem 5
Either you or the proposed new supplier must pay us a charge (which will not exceed the reasonable cost of the inspection and the actual cost of the tests).
Can a franchisee propose a new supplier for the franchisor's approval?
YesItem 5
If you want to buy any supplies, or any other items from an unapproved supplier, you first must submit to us a written request asking for our approval to do so.
Communications
Does the franchisor own or control the business telephone numbers, or take them over when the agreement ends?
YesFranchise agreement
You agree that we may designate, and own, the telephone numbers for your Franchised Business.
Data and IT
Must the franchisee comply with PCI, data-security or cybersecurity standards set by the franchisor?
YesItem 5
You agree to comply with the then-current Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards as those standards may be revised and modified by the PCI Security Standards Council, LLC (see www.pcisecuritystandards.org), or any successor organization or standards that we may reasonably specify.
Franchise management
Must the franchisee participate in a customer-satisfaction or net-promoter survey program?
YesItem 5
You agree to participate in such programs as we require, and promptly pay the then-current charges of the evaluation service.
Does the franchisor conduct periodic inspections, audits or evaluations of the franchised business?
YesItem 5
you also grant to us and our agents the right to enter upon the Franchised Business premises at any reasonable time for the purpose of conducting inspections
Can the franchisor change the operations manual and brand standards unilaterally?
YesItem 5
We have the right to revise the contents of the Brand Standards Manual whenever we deem it appropriate to do so, and you agree to make corresponding revisions to your copy of the Brand Standards Manual and to comply with each new or changed standard.
Must the franchisor approve the franchisee's site or location before opening?
YesItem 5
We have the right to approve or disapprove any such site to serve as the Accepted Location for the Franchised Business.
Marketing
Is a minimum grand opening advertising spend required?
YesItem 5
you agree to spend a minimum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) for initial marketing and promotional programs in conjunction with the Franchised Business’s soft opening and grand opening
Is the franchisee required to spend a minimum amount on local advertising or marketing, as a percentage of sales or a fixed amount?
YesItem 5
you agree to spend a minimum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) for initial marketing and promotional programs in conjunction with the Franchised Business’s soft opening and grand opening
Must the franchisee participate in a customer loyalty or rewards program?
YesItem 5
You agree to not participate in any loyalty or incentives programs, beyond our required program, unless otherwise approved in writing.
Must the franchisee participate in a regional advertising cooperative when one exists?
YesItem 5
If a Regional Fund for the geographic area in which the Franchised Business JII Franchise Group, LLC Franchise Agreement (2024) Page 32 of 81 Jeremiah's Registration State 2024 FDD (104) is located is established during the term of this Agreement, you must become a member of such Regional Fund within thirty (30) days…
Operations
Must the franchisee buy products from a designated distributor?
YesItem 5
You must buy all Products, equipment, ingredients, supplies, materials, and other products used or offered for sale at the Franchised Business only from suppliers (including manufacturers, distributors, and other sources) that we have approved in writing.
Must equipment be purchased from designated or approved suppliers?
YesFranchise agreement
8.4.5 You agree not to install or permit to be installed on or about the premises of the Franchised Business, without our prior written consent, any fixtures, furnishings, equipment, machines, décor, signs, or other items that we have not previously in writing approved as meeting our standards and specifications.
Payments
Must the franchisee use a payment processor or merchant-services provider designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 5
You agree to maintain, at all times, credit-card relationships with the credit- and debit- card issuers or sponsors, check or credit verification services, financial-center services, merchant service providers, and electronic-fund-transfer systems (together, “Payment Vendors”) that we may periodically designate as…
Are royalties and other fees collected by automatic bank debit (ACH or electronic funds transfer) from the franchisee's account?
YesItem 5
All payments required under this Agreement, unless otherwise noted (including those under Section 4.2 above and Section 13 below), must be made by ACH (as specified below)
Must the franchisee participate in a gift card program?
YesItem 5
You agree to offer for sale, and to honor for purchases by customers, all gift cards and other incentive or convenience programs that we may periodically institute
People
Does the franchisor require minimum staffing levels or specific roles?
YesItem 5
If you are an entity, you must have an individual owner who will serve as your “Operating Owner” and who will assume full-time responsibility for the daily supervision and operation of the Franchised Business (except as provided in Section 6.1.3 below).
Must employees wear uniforms specified by the franchisor?
YesItem 5
You must ensure that your employees comply with such dress code and other brand standards as we may reasonably require, which may include use of branded (or other “uniform”) apparel, and otherwise identify themselves with the Proprietary Marks at all times in the manner we specify (whether in the Brand Standards…
Point of sale
Must the franchisee use a specific point-of-sale system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 5
(We currently use a POS system offered by “Revel”.) You must be able to maintain a continuous connection to the internet to send and receive POS data to us.
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?
YesItem 5
You agree to at all times maintain a continuous high-speed Ethernet-cabled (not wireless) connection to the Internet to send and receive POS data to us.
Training
Can the franchisor charge the franchisee for additional, refresher or remedial training?
YesItem 5
We may require that you and your Specially Trained Management Employees attend such refresher courses, seminars, and other training programs as we may reasonably require periodically.
Is attendance at an annual convention or conference mandatory for the franchisee?
YesItem 5
You agree to attend the conventions and meetings that we may periodically require and to pay a reasonable fee (if we charge a fee) for each person who is required to attend (and, if applicable, additional attendees that you choose to send as well).
The filing answers no to 2 questions
- Is there a franchisee advisory council, association or committee?Item 5
- Is the franchisee prohibited from operating its own website or social media accounts, or required to use pages the franchisor provides?Item 5
Who buys here
The buyer at this brand
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.
VP SalesHead of SalesCROSales Director
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The vendor opportunity at Jeremiah's Italian Ice
Jeremiah's Italian Ice operates as a quick-service restaurant brand headquartered in Florida. For software vendors, the immediate challenge is the lack of publicly disclosed unit economics and scale in the 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document. The total number of units—both franchised and company-owned—is not stated, nor is the average unit volume (AUV) or year-over-year growth rate. This opacity makes it difficult to size the addressable market without supplementary research. The brand appears to be independently owned, with no parent company on file, which can sometimes mean a leaner corporate structure and potentially more direct access to decision-makers if you can identify them.
Who controls software purchasing
The 2024 FDD does not list any executives in Item 1, leaving the software buying center undefined. In similarly structured emerging or mid-sized QSR chains, purchasing authority often sits with a founder, VP of Operations, or a fractional IT consultant. Without a named CIO or Technology Director, vendors should prepare for a discovery process that starts at the HQ level in Florida. The decision-maker level is classified as Unknown based on the absence of franchisor mandate signals in the filing.
Mandated and current tech stack
No mandated or recommended technology systems are named in the 2024 FDD. This includes the absence of any specified point-of-sale (POS) vendor, back-office platform, or digital ordering tool. For a vendor, this signals either an open technology environment where franchisees choose their own systems, or simply a lack of disclosure. Either scenario presents a conversation starter: if the brand is truly tech-agnostic, there may be an opportunity to introduce a standardized solution that drives efficiency across the system.
Procurement, renewals, and timing
The FDD provides no extract for Item 8 (procurement restrictions) or Item 17 (renewal, termination, and transfer). This means the procurement model—whether designated supplier, approved supplier list, or fully open—is not publicly known. Similarly, the initial franchise term length and royalty percentage are not disclosed in the data on file. Without these foundational data points, predicting software contract windows or renewal cycles is not possible from the FDD alone. Vendors will need to engage directly to understand any purchasing calendars or preferred vendor processes.
How to read the Jeremiah's Italian Ice FDD
The full 2024 FDD is embedded below for your review. When analyzing it, focus on Item 11 for any mention of required technology or software obligations, and Item 8 for supplier controls. Even when specific systems are not named, the language around franchisor assistance in Item 11 can hint at whether the brand provides centralized tech support or leaves it to franchisees. Given the gaps in the current data extract, a manual read of these sections is essential to uncover any soft mandates or recommended vendor lists that might not be captured in structured summaries.
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Questions vendors ask
Jeremiah's Italian Ice, answered from the filing
The 2024 FDD does not list any HQ executives, so the specific buying center is unknown. Vendors will need to identify the operations or IT lead through direct outreach to the Florida headquarters.
No mandated or recommended POS, operational, or technology vendors are captured in the 2024 FDD. The tech stack appears to be open or unspecified at the franchisor level.
The total number of US locations, including the split between franchised and company-owned units, is not disclosed in the 2024 FDD.
The 2024 FDD does not provide an Item 8 extract detailing procurement restrictions. It is unclear whether the brand uses designated suppliers, an approved supplier list, or an open purchasing model.
With no initial term length, renewal signals, or recent activity captured in the 2024 FDD, there is no public data to predict contract windows. Timing would require direct engagement.
The 2024 FDD was filed with state franchise regulators. You can review the full document in the embedded PDF viewer below for detailed legal and operational disclosures.
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Operator footprint
Who runs the locations
1 operators run 1 mapped locations. 0 of them are multi-unit. Aggregate counts from the filing; no names.
Operators by units owned
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