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prepare agreements and policies concerning the use of the intranet that you must acknowledge and/or sign. We will have the right to create social and/or networking Websites (ι.ε., Facebook, LinkedIn,
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Skrimp Shack
Quick service restaurantSkrimp Shack's most recent FDD, from 2025, discloses 19 total locations — 15 franchised and 4 company-owned — in the quick-service restaurant segment, with average unit volume of $804,395 and unit count down 11.8% year over year. Item 1 names Kevin Harrison, CEO, Glenn Heard, Chairman, and Chaz Crenshaw, President; no CIO or CTO is disclosed and no parent company is on file, so purchasing sits with the franchisor. The FDD mandates five things — Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and Sysco — which means the required list is four social platforms and a foodservice distributor, and no point-of-sale, back-office, or workforce system is named at all.
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Live signals
Total units
19
15 franchised
Unit growth YoY
-11.765%
vs prior filing
AUV
$804K
Item 19, 2024
Royalty
6%
of gross sales
Ad fund
1%
national + local
Initial fee
$35K
per unit
Investment range
$329K–$948K
all-in, Item 7
Procurement
Approved supplier
from the filing
Non-compete
2 years
from the filing
Item 19
Claims
from the filing
Ongoing fee load
What the operator pays every month
The recurring percentage of gross sales named in this filing, before rent, labour or any technology fee.
7%of gross sales (FY2025)
15% reference
Mandated & recommended tech
The systems vendors compete with
Systems named in Item 11 of this filing. None is recorded as mandated here, which is not the same as the filing mandating nothing. Read Item 11 before treating the category as open.
InstagramMeta
nd policies concerning the use of the intranet that you must acknowledge and/or sign. We will have the right to create social and/or networking Websites (ι.ε., Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram or Twitter
LinkedInLinkedIn
reements and policies concerning the use of the intranet that you must acknowledge and/or sign. We will have the right to create social and/or networking Websites (ι.ε., Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram
SyscoSysco
rangements for franchisees. One is with PepsiCo, Inc., the second is with Dr. Pepper and these are the only approved soft drink products. Franchisees receive contract pricing with Sysco for seafood. Y
TwitterX
sentence, you are strictly prohibited from promoting your Franchised Business or using the Marks on any social and/or networking Websites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram or Twitter, without our
Franchisor behaviours
What the franchisor requires
27 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 3 explicit no's; 4 questions 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?
YesFranchise agreement
Franchisee agrees to keep and maintain complete and accurate books and records of its transactions and business operations using the accounting procedures and chart of accounts specified by Franchisor.
Does the franchisor have direct or independent electronic access to the franchisee's financial, sales or customer records?
YesItem 11
We must have access at all times and in the manner that we specify.
Must the franchisee submit periodic financial statements (monthly, quarterly or annual) to the franchisor?
YesFranchise agreement
You shall, at your expense, submit to us, in the form prescribed by us, a report of Gross Sales and a profit and loss statement for each month (which may be unaudited) for you within fifteen (15) days after the end of each month during the term hereof.
How the franchisor buys
Is the franchisor or an affiliate itself a supplier of required products, services or systems?
YesItem 8
Our affiliate Skrimp Trucks, LLC, is a designated supplier of Food Trucks.
Does the franchisor reserve the right to change designated suppliers or systems at any time?
YesItem 8
We may change this vendor at any time we deem appropriate, but you must purchase fryers from the vendor we require.
Does the franchisor or an affiliate receive rebates, commissions or other revenue from designated or approved suppliers?
YesItem 8
We and/or our affiliates may receive payments or other compensation from approved suppliers on account of the suppliers’ dealings with us, you, or other franchisees in the System, such as signing bonuses, rebates, commissions or other forms of compensation.
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?
25Item 8
We estimate that your purchase or lease of products, supplies and services from approved suppliers (or those which meet our specifications) will represent approximately 30% of your costs to establish your Restaurant and approximately 25% of your costs for ongoing operation.
Does the franchisor charge a fee to evaluate a proposed supplier?
YesFranchise agreement
If you desire to purchase, lease or use any products or other items from an unapproved supplier, you shall submit to us a written request for such approval, or shall request the supplier itself to do so, together with payment of our then-current evaluation fee (not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000)).
Can a franchisee propose a new supplier for the franchisor's approval?
YesItem 8
If you wish to purchase, lease or use any products that we have not previously approved, or purchase or lease from a supplier we have not previously approved, you must submit a written request for approval or you must request the supplier to do so.
Communications
Does the franchisor own or control the business telephone numbers, or take them over when the agreement ends?
YesFranchise agreement
(i) to transfer all Franchisee’s interest in such Telephone Listings to Franchisor; and (ii) to execute such documents and take such actions as may be necessary to effectuate such transfer.
Franchise management
Must the franchisee participate in a customer-satisfaction or net-promoter survey program?
YesFranchise agreement
You shall participate in all customer surveys and satisfaction audits, which may require that you provide discounted or complimentary products, provided that such discounted or complimentary sales shall not be included in Gross Sales.
Does the franchisor conduct periodic inspections, audits or evaluations of the franchised business?
YesFranchise agreement
We or our designees shall have the right, during normal business hours, to review, audit, examine and copy any or all of your books and records as we may require at your Restaurant.
Can the franchisor change the operations manual and brand standards unilaterally?
YesItem 11
We can change the terms of, and add to, the Manual whenever we believe it is appropriate.
Must the franchisor approve the franchisee's site or location before opening?
YesItem 11
You cannot develop a site until we approve it.
Marketing
Is a minimum grand opening advertising spend required?
YesItem 11
You must conduct a marketing campaign announcing the grand opening of your Franchised Business, and you must spend between $500 and $5,000 for this campaign.
Is the franchisee required to spend a minimum amount on local advertising or marketing, as a percentage of sales or a fixed amount?
YesItem 11
You must spend at least 1% of Gross Sales each month on local marketing for your Franchised Business.
Must the franchisee participate in a customer loyalty or rewards program?
YesFranchise agreement
7.5.11 To issue and honor any loyalty cards that we designate or approve for the System.
Must the franchisee participate in a regional advertising cooperative when one exists?
YesItem 11
If a Cooperative has been established for a geographic area where your Franchised Business is located when the Franchise Agreement is signed, or if any Cooperative is established during the term of the Franchise Agreement, you must become a member of the Cooperative.
Operations
Must the franchisee buy products from a designated distributor?
YesItem 8
You must purchase your fryers (henny pennys) from Carlisle Foodservice Products, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Must equipment be purchased from designated or approved suppliers?
YesItem 8
You must purchase your fryers (henny pennys) from Carlisle Foodservice Products, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Payments
Must the franchisee use a payment processor or merchant-services provider designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 11
Unless we designate a different system, you must purchase the Toast point of sale system and must subscribe to the Toast payout processing provider.
Are royalties and other fees collected by automatic bank debit (ACH or electronic funds transfer) from the franchisee's account?
YesItem 6
Amounts due will be transferred to the appropriate account or check paid to Skrimp Shack LLC, 744 City Center Boulevard, Suite 400, Newport News, Virginia 23606.
Must the franchisee participate in a gift card program?
YesItem 6
We have established a gift card program and/or a loyalty card program, and you must participate in our gift card and loyalty card programs as required by us.
People
Does the franchisor require minimum staffing levels or specific roles?
YesFranchise agreement
You shall designate and retain at all times a general manager (“General Manager”) to direct the operation and management of your Restaurant.
Point of sale
Must the franchisee use a specific point-of-sale system designated or approved by the franchisor?
YesItem 11
Unless we designate a different system, you must purchase the Toast point of sale system and must subscribe to the Toast payout processing provider.
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?
YesItem 11
The computer system is designed to enable us to have immediate access to the information monitored by the system, and there is no contractual limitation on our access or use of the information we obtain.
Training
Can the franchisor charge the franchisee for additional, refresher or remedial training?
YesItem 11
We may also choose to hold refresher training courses, and we may designate attendance at refresher training is mandatory for you, your Operating Principal, General Manager and/or other personnel.
The filing answers no to 3 questions
- Is there a franchisee advisory council, association or committee?Item 11
- Is the franchisee prohibited from operating its own website or social media accounts, or required to use pages the franchisor provides?Item 11
- Is attendance at an annual convention or conference mandatory for the franchisee?Item 11
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 franchisee/operator personally, or a small franchisor still owner-run. Wears every hat.
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The vendor opportunity at Skrimp Shack
Skrimp Shack is a quick-service restaurant brand headquartered in Virginia, and the most recent FDD on file is from 2025. That filing reports 19 total locations — 15 franchised and 4 company-owned — with average unit volume of $804,395. Unit count is down 11.8% year over year, which is the fact a vendor should price in: this is a contracting system, not a growth story, and a per-unit deal signed today is against a shrinking base.
The royalty is 6.0% and the initial term is 5 years, unusually short for the segment. The franchised majority matters too — with 15 of 19 units in franchisee hands, adoption depends on what the franchise agreement obliges, not only on what headquarters prefers.
Who controls software purchasing
Item 1 discloses three people: Glenn Heard, Chairman; Kevin Harrison, CEO; and Chaz Crenshaw, President. No CIO, CTO, or technology officer is listed, so there is no dedicated systems buyer on file and the CEO and President are the realistic entry points. No parent company is on file either — Skrimp Shack appears independently owned, with nothing above the franchisor to route a decision through.
The operator base is wide but shallow. Our mapping finds 13 operators, none of them multi-unit, across roughly 13 located units, concentrated with 12 in Virginia and 1 in North Carolina. Every mapped operator sits in the single-unit band. There is no multi-unit franchisee with the scale to buy independently, so the decision is a headquarters decision that then has to be pushed down through a mandate.
Tech named in the FDD, and what is actually required
Five names carry a mandate in this filing, meaning the FDD obliges the franchisee on them: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and Sysco. Read what that list actually is. Four are social platforms and the fifth is a foodservice distributor. Not one is a point-of-sale, back-office, accounting, scheduling, loyalty, or workforce system.
So the honest summary is that Skrimp Shack mandates brand-presence and food distribution, and mandates no operational software at all — and it does not even mention one. No POS vendor, no restaurant management platform, no labor or inventory tool appears anywhere in the captured filing, required or otherwise. For a software vendor that is a clean field: no contractual incumbent to displace, no approved-vendor list to be added to, and no clause obliging a franchisee to a competing product. It also means the stack that the 19 units actually run has to be established through discovery, because the disclosure document does not identify it.
The Sysco mandate is worth noting for a second reason. It shows this franchisor does write named suppliers into the agreement when it wants control, so a technology mandate is achievable here rather than structurally out of character.
Procurement, renewals, and timing
Item 8 is where designated-supplier and approved-supplier obligations normally sit, and this filing produced no Item 8 extract, so the formal procurement model — designated, approved, or open — is not established by the data we hold. The Sysco mandate is the closest thing to a designated-supplier signal in the document.
Item 17 sets a fast cycle. The initial term is 5 years, with up to two additional terms of five years each. To renew, the franchisee must give notice of intent, be in compliance with the franchise agreement, be current in all required payments, remodel or refurbish the restaurant or food truck if the franchisor requires it, be able to maintain possession of the location, sign the then-current form of franchise agreement, and sign a general release. A five-year term means renewal conversations recur roughly three times as often as at a 15-year brand, and the remodel-if-required condition is where operating standards, and any systems attached to them, get respecified.
How to read the Skrimp Shack FDD
The 2025 document was filed with state franchise regulators, and the full PDF is embedded in the viewer below. Item 1 gives the entity and the three officers named above; Item 8 covers supplier obligations and is where the Sysco relationship should be confirmed; Item 11 covers computer systems and required technology, and is where the absence of any software mandate can be verified directly; Item 17 covers renewal and the five-year successor terms; Item 20 carries the unit tables behind the 19-unit count and the decline. If you want Skrimp Shack scored against the rest of the US franchise corpus and returned as a ranked target list, talk to FranCloud.
Questions vendors ask
Skrimp Shack, answered from the filing
Headquarters. Item 1 discloses Glenn Heard, Chairman; Kevin Harrison, CEO; and Chaz Crenshaw, President. No CIO, CTO, or operations officer is on file, and no parent company sits above the franchisor, so the CEO and President are the entry points and there is no dedicated technology buyer to route through.
No operational software. The five mandated names are Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter, plus Sysco as a supplier — the FDD obliges franchisees on those. It names no point-of-sale, back-office, scheduling, or loyalty system, so every core software category is contractually open.
The 2025 FDD reports 19 total locations in the quick-service restaurant segment: 15 franchised and 4 company-owned, with unit count down 11.8% year over year. Our mapping places 13 operators, none multi-unit, across roughly 13 located units — 12 in Virginia and 1 in North Carolina.
Not established. Item 8, where designated-supplier and approved-supplier requirements live, produced no extract from this filing. The one concrete supplier signal elsewhere in the document is the Sysco mandate, which points toward designated distribution for food but says nothing about software.
The initial term is only 5 years, with up to two additional five-year terms — a short cycle, so renewals come around often. Renewal requires notice, compliance, being current on payments, remodeling or refurbishing if required, continued possession, the then-current franchise agreement, and a general release.
It was filed with state franchise regulators in 2025, and the full PDF is embedded in the viewer below. Read Item 1 for the officers, Item 8 for suppliers, Item 11 for computer systems and required technology, Item 17 for renewal, and Item 20 for the unit tables.
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Operator footprint
Who runs the locations
13 operators run 13 mapped locations. 0 of them are multi-unit. Aggregate counts from the filing; no names.
Operators by units owned
Single-unit13
Top states by locations
| VA | 12 |
|---|---|
| NC | 1 |
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