FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Premium Matcha Café Maiko litigation history
What Premium Matcha Café Maiko 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 (litigation) & 4 (bankruptcy) at a glance
What the filing discloses
- Cases disclosed
- 3
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest settlement, franchisor's own cases
- None stated
- 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
Three state regulatory enforcement matters, all settled by consent/settlement order: Washington DFI Securities Division Consent Order (No. S-19-2813-20-CO01, 2020); Virginia State Corporation Commission Settlement Order (Case No. SEC-2021-00021, entered Jan 2022, civil penalties and costs); California DFPI Consent Order (Sept 2023, administrative penalties). All concerned offering/selling franchises without registration or FDD delivery, inherited via purchase of predecessor EXEO USA.
Item 3 (litigation) · 3 matters disclosed
Litigation cases
The franchisor
Concluded (3)
The Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation v. Eight USA Inc. dba Eight USA, and Premium Matcha Café Maiko – Consent Order
concludedGovernment or regulatory action · filed 2023-09-18 · California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
“The Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation v. Eight USA Inc. dba Eight USA, and Premium Matcha Café Maiko – Consent Order.”Page 10 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Commonwealth of Virginia, ex rel., State Corporation Commission v. Eight USA Inc. – Settlement Order
settledGovernment or regulatory action · filed 2022-01-24 · Virginia State Corporation Commission, Division of Securities and Retail Franchising · SEC-2021-00021
“… Case No. SEC-2021-00021 On or about May 5, 2021, Eight USA Inc. received a letter from the Division of Securities and Retail Franchising, of the State”Page 9 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Washington Eight USA Inc. dba Matcha Café Maiko – Consent Order
concludedGovernment or regulatory action · filed 2020-07-07 · State of Washington Department of Financial Institutions, Securities Division · S-19-2813-20-CO01
“Order No. S-19-2813 -20 - CO01, the State of Washington Dept of Financial Institutions Securities Division (“Securities Division”).”Page 9 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Item 3 lists the litigation the franchisor must disclose; a matter against a parent, an affiliate or a named officer is not a matter against the franchisor, and pending claims are allegations, not findings.
Disclosure signals that moved the score
How this shows up in the verdict
- Anemic growth rate of 8.7% YoY with only 26 units suggests market rejection or saturation in premium matcha category; units may be declining post-litigation
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?