FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Basecamp Fitness litigation history
What Basecamp Fitness disclosed about lawsuits, arbitrations and bankruptcy in the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document. Item 3 lists the material legal actions a franchisor must report; Item 4 covers bankruptcy. This is the franchisor's own disclosure, not a court record, and not legal advice.
Items 3 & 4 at a glance
What the filing discloses
- Cases disclosed
- 0
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- N/A
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- Disclosed
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2025
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
No litigation required to be disclosed for the Basecamp Fitness brand. Two affiliate actions disclosed for The Bar Method brand (Illinois AG 2009 consent decree; NY AOD 2009), both resolved.
Disclosed in the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 4: bankruptcy
CEO Thomas Leverton left CEC Entertainment (Chuck E. Cheese parent) in Feb 2020; company filed Chapter 11 ~4 months later (June 2020), confirmed Dec 2020. CFO R. John Pindred left Family Christian LLC in Sept 2014; it filed Chapter 11 ~5 months later (Feb 2015), confirmed Aug 2015.
Disclosure signals that moved the score
How this shows up in the verdict
- Litigation involving affiliate (The Bar Method) for unregistered franchise sales in Illinois and New York raises regulatory compliance concerns and potential parent company culpability
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How to read Item 3
A franchisor must disclose pending actions and any material civil action involving the franchise relationship, plus convictions or civil judgments for fraud, unfair or deceptive practices, or franchise-law violations, going back ten years. A case the franchisor brought against a franchisee counts too. Item 3 does not include every dispute: settled claims below the materiality line and matters resolved in private arbitration can be absent.
Questions worth asking current and former franchisees, using the contact list in Item 20:
- Were you, or anyone you know in the system, party to a dispute with the franchisor?
- Was it resolved by settlement, arbitration or a court, and on what terms?
- Has the number of disputes gone up or down since you signed?