FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2024 filing
Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt litigation history
What Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt 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
- 9
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- $240K
- As stated in Item 3
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- Disclosed
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2024
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
Item 3 discloses: (1) affiliate lease dispute at American Dream Mall (pending); (2) trademark infringement suit against Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop (pending); (3) three unpaid royalties suits against franchisees (one default judgment, two settlements); (4) four historical judgments against former affiliate R&S Ventures for nonpayment of rent.
Disclosed in the 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 4: bankruptcy
Biagio Scotto (President) was president of Villa Pizza Specialties, Inc. (Texas), which filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy case #15-31057 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court – District of New Jersey; case closed February 14, 2017.
Disclosure signals that moved the score
How this shows up in the verdict
- Pending litigation on mall leases and trademark infringement creates operational and brand risk
- Going Concern status (True) signals potential viability issues at corporate level
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?