FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2026 filing

The Good Feet Store litigation history

What The Good Feet Store disclosed about lawsuits, arbitrations and bankruptcy in the 2026 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: 5; Item 3, as counted in the filing

Largest settlement, franchisor's own cases: $125K; As stated in Item 3

Bankruptcy (Item 4): Disclosed; Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer

Filing year: 2026; Disclosures cover the prior ten years

Extracted from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document

Item 3: litigation

3 pending cases (Hall v. Good Feet Worldwide - product liability/negligence, customer injury, damages >$50,000; Tharpe v. GF SE, LLC - fraud/negligence, customer injury; Wetzel v. Dr.'s Own/Good Feet Worldwide - consumer fraud/negligence, damages >$600,000) and 2 concluded cases (Sisk v. Dr.'s Own/Good Feet Worldwide - class action consumer protection claims, settled for $125,000 in 2019; Conway v. Planet Fitness Holdings et al. - fraud/securities claims against current President Richard Moore in his prior role, unrelated to Good Feet System, $5.36M jury verdict/judgment in 2019-2022, does not involve Good Feet System).

Item 3 (litigation) · 5 matters disclosed · 3 pending listed

Litigation cases

The franchisor

Pending (2)

Hall v. Good Feet Worldwide, LLC, Dr.’s Own, LLC, The Good Feet Store, Good Feet Holdings, LLC, Feet First Partners, Feet First Holdings, Inc., Christin Iacovelli
pending
Brought by a third party · filed 2025-11-03 · Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania · 251001289
“… (Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Case No. 251001289).”Page 12 of the 2026 FDD, Item 3
Wetzel v. Dr.’s Own, LLC, Good Feet Worldwide, LLC, Nissi Corporation, Bill Pioch, Tonya Davis, and Deborah Buckman
pending
Brought by a third party · filed 2024-11-07 · Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois · 2024-LA- 0000309
“… (Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, Case No. 2024-LA-”Page 12 of the 2026 FDD, Item 3

Concluded (1)

Sisk vs. Dr.’s Own, Inc. and Good Feet Worldwide, LLC
settled
Brought by a third party · filed 2019-10-30 · United States District Court for the Southern District of California · 3:19-cv-02079-BEN-MSB
“… (United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Case No. 3:19-cv-02079-BEN-MSB).”Page 13 of the 2026 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “In return, we paid Ms. Sisk $125,000. The case was formally dismissed on January 10, 2020. Conway v. Planet Fitness Holdings, LLC, Michael Grondahl, Marc Grondahl, Christopher Rondeau, and Richard Moore (Superior Court, Essex County, Massachusetts, Civil Action No. 2013-756).”

Parent, affiliates, master franchisor and subfranchisor

Pending (1)

Tharpe v. GF SE, LLC DBA The Good Feet Store, Dr.’s Own, LLC, Zaki Shahid
pending
Brought by a third party · Dr.’s Own, LLC (DOL, our affiliate) · filed 2026-03-17 · Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia · SU2026CV000571
“… (Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia, Case no. SU2026CV000571).”Page 12 of the 2026 FDD, Item 3

Officers and directors (individuals, not the company)

Concluded (1)

Conway v. Planet Fitness Holdings, LLC, Michael Grondahl, Marc Grondahl, Christopher Rondeau, and Richard Moore
judgment
Richard Moore (our current President) · filed 2013-05-10 · Superior Court, Essex County, Massachusetts · Civil Action No. 2013-756
“… (Superior Court, Essex County, Massachusetts, Civil Action No. 2013-756).”Page 13 of the 2026 FDD, Item 3
Outcome: “the appellate court entered a final judgment in favor of Conway. This action does not involve the Good Feet System. Except as described above, no litigation is required to be disclosed in this Item.”

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.

Disclosed in the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document

Item 4: bankruptcy

Item 4 discloses the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Jenny Craig entities (In re JC USA, Inc., filed May 5, 2023, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware) because the franchisor's current CFO, Khuram Bhatti, was formerly Jenny Craig's Global CFO. This bankruptcy does not involve the Good Feet System and is not a personal bankruptcy of any officer.

Disclosure signals that moved the score

How this shows up in the verdict

Active consumer fraud litigation and settled class action for trade practices violations suggest systemic compliance or marketing issues
CEO fraud judgment from Planet Fitness role raises governance and integrity concerns for current leadership

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?

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