Lime House Franchise

The vendor opportunity at Lime House Franchise

Lime House Franchise is a quick-service restaurant concept headquartered in New York. According to the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the system consists of exactly 1 unit, which is company-owned. The number of franchised units is not disclosed, and our corpus contains no mapped operator footprint. This makes Lime House one of the smallest addressable markets a software vendor can encounter—essentially a single-location business operating under a franchise legal structure. For vendors accustomed to pitching multi-unit operators or scaling chains, this represents a fundamentally different sales motion, closer to selling into an independent restaurant than a franchise network.

Average unit volume is not reported in the FDD, and year-over-year unit growth is not available. The royalty rate is set at 5.0% of gross sales, and the initial franchise term runs for 10 years. Without disclosed franchised units or a growth trajectory, the total addressable market for any software product is capped at one location unless the franchisor begins actively selling licenses.

Who controls software purchasing

The 2025 FDD identifies three individuals in Item 1: Thanda Win, serving as President; Erik Nevius, listed as Vice President; and Patrick Conley, who holds the title of Franchise Development Coordinator. In a system this small, the President and Vice President are almost certainly the de facto technology decision-makers. There is no separate CIO, CTO, or IT procurement role disclosed. Any vendor outreach should be directed at this concentrated leadership group, recognizing that they likely wear multiple operational hats and have limited bandwidth for unsolicited pitches.

No parent company is on file, and Lime House appears to be independently owned. This means there is no larger corporate entity that might centralize or influence software purchasing decisions from above.

Mandated and current tech stack

The only technology system explicitly mandated in the 2025 FDD is the point-of-sale platform: Square by Block, Inc. This is a concrete, vendor-specific mandate, not a general specification. For software vendors, this creates both a constraint and an opportunity. Any product that must integrate with the POS will need to work within the Square ecosystem. Conversely, vendors offering complementary solutions that sit alongside Square—such as loyalty, scheduling, or inventory management—may find a receptive audience if they can demonstrate seamless integration.

No other mandated or recommended technology systems are disclosed in the FDD. This absence of information could mean the franchisor has not standardized other parts of the tech stack, or it could simply reflect limited disclosure. Vendors should approach with a discovery mindset, prepared to ask what tools are currently in use for accounting, payroll, online ordering, and delivery management.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

The FDD's Item 8, which typically describes procurement obligations, designated suppliers, and rebate structures, yielded no extractable signal in our analysis. This leaves the procurement model undefined: we do not know whether Lime House requires franchisees to buy from designated suppliers, maintains an approved supplier list, or allows open purchasing. For a system with only one company-owned unit, formal procurement policies may not yet exist in a meaningful way.

Item 17 provides clearer ground on renewals. To renew a franchise, the operator must provide 180 days' prior written notice, sign the then-current form of Franchise Agreement, execute a general release in favor of the franchisor, pay a renewal fee, remodel and upgrade the restaurant to meet current standards, secure legal rights to the premises, and meet all other renewal conditions. The renewal term is 10 years. These conditions suggest that any major operational or technology changes are most likely to occur at the point of renewal or remodeling, creating narrow windows for vendor displacement.

How to read the Lime House FDD

The full 2025 Lime House Franchise FDD is embedded below for direct review. This document is the primary source for all factual claims in this analysis. When reading it, pay close attention to Item 11 for the franchisor's obligations regarding technology and equipment, Item 8 for any procurement restrictions that might block or channel your sale, and Item 19 if financial performance representations are included—though in this case, no AUV data was disclosed. The FDD was filed with state franchise regulators in 2025 and represents the most current public disclosure available. For vendors building a ranked target list of franchise systems, FranCloud can help you identify which brands match your ideal customer profile based on tech mandates, unit counts, and decision-maker structures.