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FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2024 filing

Champs Chicken litigation history

What Champs Chicken disclosed about lawsuits, arbitrations and bankruptcy in the 2024 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
3
Item 3, as counted in the filing
Largest disclosed settlement
None stated
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
None
Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
Filing year
2024
Disclosures cover the prior ten years

Extracted from the 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document

Item 3: litigation

Three Item-3 matters disclosed: (1) TravelCenters of the Ozarks/Wilmoth Enterprises v. Champs Chicken Franchising (Cole County, MO, 2022) — breach of contract over rebate payments, in preliminary stage; (2) Illinois Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (2016) — sold franchises while registration suspended, paid $2,000; (3) Washington Consent Order (2017) — sold franchises without a current permit, paid $3,000.

Disclosure signals that moved the score

How this shows up in the verdict

  • Active litigation regarding rebates suggests franchisor-franchisee financial disputes and broken promises

The verdict grade is FranchiseVerdict's editorial assessment across SBA loan performance, unit growth, revenue and disclosure signals. It is not investment advice.

Before you weigh a lawsuit

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?