FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Edible Arrangements litigation history
What Edible Arrangements 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
- 3
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- $600K
- As stated in Item 3
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- None
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2025
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
3 disclosed actions: (1) Batroukh arbitration 2015 - settled; (2) ZRIZA franchisee arbitration 2020 - settled 2021; (3) Card Isle Corporation v. Edible Arrangements et al. - trade secret/copyright/breach of contract, ongoing
Disclosure signals that moved the score
How this shows up in the verdict
- Multiple litigation cases involving non-renewals, contractual breaches, and vendor disputes signal adversarial franchisor-franchisee relationships and legal risk exposure
- Going concern status is FALSE — unusual phrasing suggests potential financial instability or questionable long-term viability of parent company
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?