Restaurant package

Some filings sell a kit. Some filings list equipment, furniture, smallwares, and installation as separate rows. A kit cannot be unpacked from the public table without inventing a split the franchisor did not print. This chapter keeps Great Greek’s Restaurant Package whole, keeps Shah’s Fixture Package whole, and keeps German Doner Kebab’s already-split rows split.

The league table at the end of this chapter includes only package-bucket rows. In this dataset that is Great Greek. Shah’s fixture package is coded as equipment; GDK’s restaurant equipment, furniture, and smallwares are equipment; GDK’s fit-out is construction. Those rows appear on their own chapters. They are here as neighbors, not as pieces of Great Greek’s kit.

Three public treatments, not one hidden recipe

Brand	Filing label	How this dataset codes it	Low	High
The Great Greek	Restaurant Package	package	$225,964	$248,560
Shah’s Halal Food	Fixture Package	equipment	$30,000	$50,000
German Doner Kebab	Restaurant Equipment	equipment	$140,000	$175,000
German Doner Kebab	Furniture & Fixtures	equipment	$15,500	$20,000
German Doner Kebab	Small Wares	equipment	$11,000	$15,000
German Doner Kebab	Fit Out Materials & Installation	construction	$175,000	$205,000
Mad for Chicken	Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment	equipment	$85,000	$110,000
375° Chicken ‘n Fries	Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment	equipment	$100,000	$120,000

GDK’s three equipment rows add to $166,500–$210,000. Adding fit-out as well produces $341,500–$415,000 of equipment-plus-installation-shaped cost. That second addition is still inside one filing, and it is still not a reconstruction of Great Greek’s package. Fit-out includes construction labor and materials that a “restaurant package” may or may not contain.

Great Greek’s package is the tightest band in the table: $22,596 of width on a $248,560 high, about 9 percent. The same filing’s leasehold improvements are $250,000–$650,000. The kit is specified; the room is not. A filed Great Greek disclosure is the document that describes what the package contains. This directory does not invent an equipment slice, a furniture slice, or a supplies slice from the $225,964 low.

The 2023 Great Greek brand record also states that grand opening is included in the restaurant package. That is a second reason not to subtract a campaign number from the package to “match” Mad for Chicken’s separate $15,000 grand-opening row. The grand opening chapter leaves Great Greek out of the campaign league for the same reason.

Shah’s fixture package is a different object

Shah’s Fixture Package of $30,000–$50,000 sits next to Build-Out/Construction of $80,000–$160,000. Minnesota’s public Shah’s Halal filing keeps those lines apart. Fixtures in that range are not Great Greek’s $225,964–$248,560 kit, and they are not GDK’s $140,000–$175,000 of restaurant equipment. Comparing the three cells as “equipment” without the labels is how a conversion-sized fixture number gets treated as a full kitchen.

Shah’s Initial Inventory of $10,000–$30,000 and Marketing Supplies of $2,000–$7,000 are outside the fixture package. Great Greek’s Opening Inventory of $7,000–$15,000 is outside the restaurant package. GDK’s Opening Inventory of $15,000–$20,000 is outside equipment. Inventory is not a package remainder.

What a package quote still has to answer

Even a specified kit leaves cash-flow questions that Item 7’s two columns cannot:

• Freight, tax, rigging, and installation — inside the package, inside construction, or extra. GDK already split installation into fit-out. Great Greek did not say. Shah’s did not say.
• Mandatory source. Item 8 decides whether the package can be bid.
• Used equipment. A footnote may allow it at the low end; the operations manual may not, once the site is approved.
• Lead time. A tight package range is still a long-lead order if a manufacturer has a twelve-week queue. Pre-opening rent does not care that the Item 7 band is narrow.
• What happens when a model is discontinued, or when the brand’s drawings change after the FDD year. Great Greek is a 2023 table; GDK and Shah’s are 2024.

The FTC’s compliance guide requires the table to say to whom the amount is paid. A package paid to an affiliate is a concentration-of-payments fact as well as a price fact. Copy that column onto the worksheet.

Worked example: do not back into a Great Greek equipment number

Great Greek’s Item 7 high is $1,088,560. Subtracting the $39,500 first-time fee, $650,000 leasehold high, $10,000 design fee, $75,000 additional-funds high, and the other named rows would leave a remainder that looks like a solved package. That remainder is not information. The package is already disclosed at $225,964–$248,560. Subtracting around it to “find” equipment would also collide with the fact that grand opening is inside the package and that signage and technology have no separate rows. The honest statement is: this filing priced a kit and a room, and the kit’s contents are in the FDD’s footnotes and exhibits, not in a directory subtraction.

Döner Haus’s issued range of $359,500–$586,000 is a total without a package row here. It cannot be used to infer a kit.

Package checklist

1. Copy the filing’s package or fixture label without renaming it.
2. List functions (cook, hold, refrigerate, wash, seat, serve, sign, POS) and mark which are inside the package, inside another Item 7 row, or unnamed.
3. For Great Greek, leave grand opening inside the package; do not insert Mad for Chicken’s $15,000.
4. For GDK, add only the rows the filing already split — and say whether fit-out is in the comparison.
5. For Shah’s, keep the fixture package next to build-out rather than in place of it.
6. Reconcile the invoice, Item 8, and lead times to the cell, then ask recent franchisees what the kit actually contained, as the FTC’s FDD walkthrough recommends.

Freight, tax, and the affiliate as vendor

Sales tax on a $248,560 Great Greek package is a five-figure line in many states and is easy to assume is inside the cell. Freight to a second-floor inline or to an island pad is another. If the invoice lists them extra, the Item 7 high was not a turnkey number. GDK’s separate fit-out row is the filing that already pulled installation out; a buyer of that brand who also pays freight on restaurant equipment of $140,000–$175,000 still needs to know whether freight is in equipment or in fit-out. Shah’s $30,000–$50,000 fixture package is the cell that most needs the question asked, because it is small enough that freight and tax can be a visible share of the high.

An affiliate vendor concentrates payments. The FTC’s compliance guide cares about “to whom paid” for that reason. A package paid to the franchisor’s affiliate is not automatically overpriced, and it is not automatically a bargain. It is a single counterparty for a large check: Great Greek up to $248,560, GDK equipment plus fit-out up to $415,000 if those rows are paid that way. Item 8 and the exhibits say whether they are.

The injected comparison below will show Great Greek’s restaurant package and whatever other package-bucket rows exist in the dataset. Shah’s fixture package will appear on the equipment league table instead. That split of tables is the point: the filings did not use one word.