FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing

The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill litigation history

What The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill 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: 5; 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

One pending federal trademark dispute (D&D Greek Restaurant, Inc. v. Great Greek Franchising, LLC, filed 2020, trial concluded Sept 2022, awaiting judgment) over prior use of "The Great Greek" name. Additionally, four historical restrictive orders/consent decrees are disclosed: a 1993 FTC injunction against Signarama/Minuteman Press affiliates for false earnings claims; a 1996 Maryland Securities Commissioner consent order against Signarama for unregistered franchise sales; a 2021 California DFPI consent order against TGG for improperly removing a fee-deferral condition and collecting fees prematurely (rescission offered, penalty paid); and a 2022 California DFPI consent order against TGG, GCZ and UFG for making unregistered franchise offers/financial performance representations at a California trade show.

Item 3 (litigation) · 5 matters disclosed · 1 pending listed

Litigation cases

The franchisor

Pending (1)

D&D Greek Restaurant, Inc. v. Great Greek Franchising, LLC
pending
filed 2020-10-30 · U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · 20-09770
“… (Case No. 20-09770, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California) Filed on October 30, 2020.”Page 16 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3

Concluded (2)

Matter with no printed caption
concluded
Government or regulatory action · filed 2022 · California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
“In March 2022, TGG, GCZ, and UFG entered into consent orders with the State of California, and its Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, as it relates to alleged violations which occurred at a trade show in California.”Page 17 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
In the Matter of: The Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation v. Great Greek Franchising, LLC
concluded
Government or regulatory action · filed 2021 · California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
“TGG entered into a consent order with the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation of the State of California in August 2021.”Page 17 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3

Parent, affiliates, master franchisor and subfranchisor

Concluded (2)

In the Matter of Speedy Sign-A-Rama, USA, Inc.
concluded
Government or regulatory action · Speedy Sign-A-Rama, USA, Inc. (Signarama, our affiliate) · filed 1996 · Securities Commissioner of Maryland · S-95-112
“Signarama entered into a consent order with the Securities Commissioner of Maryland in January 1996. The matter is captioned In the Matter of Speedy Sign-A-Rama, USA, Inc. and is Case No. S-95-112.”Page 16 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff v. Minuteman Press International, Inc., Speedy Sign-A-Rama, USA, Inc., Roy W. Titus and Jeffrey Haber, Defendants
concluded
Government or regulatory action · Speedy Sign-A-Rama, USA, Inc. (Signarama, our affiliate) and its officers · filed 1993-06-04 · United States District Court, Eastern District of New York · CV 93-2496
“… (CV 93-2496) Filed on June 4, 1993, in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York.”Page 16 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.

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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