Shaghf Cafe

The vendor opportunity at Shaghf Cafe

Shaghf Cafe is a quick-service restaurant brand whose headquarters state is not disclosed in our data, and the most recent FDD on file is from 2026. It reports 6 total locations, all 6 franchised; the company-owned count, average unit volume, and royalty rate are not disclosed in the most recent FDD, and year-over-year unit growth is not available. The initial term runs 15 years, and Item 17 describes a master franchise agreement — so the structure is a master franchisee developing cafes, not a wide network of independent owner-operators. At six units this is an early-stage account: the commercial case is becoming the standard as the system builds out, not displacing anything.

Who controls software purchasing

Item 1 names four people. Hamad Khalfan Ali Al-Shareif Aal Alshareif is Chief Executive Officer and Manager — the signer. Niaz Ahmed is Managing Director and General Manager, the seat that would own an operational system in practice. Sheena Nellas Tampos is Human Resources Manager and Salve D. Chavez is Director of Training — and at this size, whoever owns training owns the operations manual, which is where a system becomes the standard. No CIO, CTO, or technology officer is disclosed in the most recent FDD, and there is no parent company on file — the brand appears independently owned. Our mapping finds 5 operators across roughly 5 located units, none multi-unit, led by Illinois (2) and Texas (1). With a master-franchise structure over a small footprint, the decision reads as mixed: headquarters sets the standard, the master franchisee executes it.

Tech named in the FDD, and what is actually required

The 2026 FDD mandates no technology at all. One system appears in the document — Clover — and it shows up in a fee or usage clause, not in a requirement. Nothing in the filing obliges an operator to adopt it or keep it, so it cannot be treated as an installed vendor or as an incumbent to displace. The FDD names it; writing anything stronger would put a vendor relationship on record that the filing does not establish. For a software seller, this is an open account across the board. Point of sale, payments, online ordering, loyalty, labor scheduling, and back-office accounting all sit uncommitted here, with no mandated platform and no approved-vendor list in the way. The training and operations-manual conditions in Item 17 are the lever: a system written into the manual becomes the default for every cafe the master franchisee opens.

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 the procurement model is not established by the data we hold. Item 17 is unusually detailed, and it is about the master franchise. Renewal notice must arrive 180 to 210 days before expiration. The master franchisee must bring all accounts current with the franchisor and its affiliates, including outstanding royalties; sign the then-current master franchise agreement — which may carry materially different terms — or accept a renewal addendum; hold a lease running through the successive ten-year term; exchange its operations manual for the current version, unless it already holds the up-to-date electronic copy; show substantial compliance and consistent quality; prove insurance naming the franchisor and its affiliate; and meet the then-current training requirements. The electronic-manual clause is the tell for a vendor: this franchisor already distributes its standards digitally.

How to read the Shaghf Cafe FDD

The 2026 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 and the entity; Item 8 covers supplier obligations; Item 11 covers computer systems and required technology; Item 17 carries the master-franchise renewal conditions; Item 20 holds the unit tables behind the six-unit count. If you want Shaghf Cafe scored against the rest of the US franchise corpus and returned as a ranked target list, talk to FranCloud.