It depends on three things the company never puts on one page: the state your store is in, the year you signed, and what the disclosure document said that year. Pick your state below. Its page holds the state’s franchise statutes, BAM’s own addendum for that state in every edition since 2017, the conditions the state put on BAM’s registration, and what the document said beside the record. Every line carries its source.
This is a guide to public law and to BAM’s own filings. It is not legal advice, and nothing here is a finding of law or of any person’s liability. Statutes have deadlines, defenses and definitions that turn on facts this page cannot see: what you signed, when, and what you were told. A franchise lawyer licensed in your state can tell you what reaches you. BAM denies wrongdoing in the litigation described on this site.
Each dot is a store, colored by its state’s law. Click a dot to open that state’s page. Locations and BAM’s opening dates are from the stores map; no franchisee is named.
Federal Trade Commission. ReportFraud.ftc.gov takes reports from anyone, at any time. Reports are not public; they feed the database the Commission acts on when patterns form. https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
What you can ask for in writing, today.
The fund statement. Item 11 of the 2026 document: “We will prepare an annual un-audited statement of monies collected and costs incurred by the Fund and furnish it to you upon written request.” Every franchisee pays 1 percent of revenue into the fund. The request is a letter. What the fund’s own terms say
The document itself, from the state. Every edition BAM has filed since 2019 can be downloaded from the Minnesota Department of Commerce without asking the company. The September 2026 amendment is there, and so are the earlier editions. Minnesota CARDS, file 9006
An independent franchisee association, listed in the document. The federal Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to list, in Item 20, any independent franchisee organization that has asked in writing to be included. Once asked, it appears in every document BAM issues after that. The association question
Sources. BAM Franchising, Inc., Franchise Disclosure Documents 2017 through the September 2026 amendment as filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce, file 9006: the state addenda, Exhibit K, the state cover pages, Items 2, 3, 10, 11, 13, 20 and 21. Statute text from each state legislature’s official site and ecfr.gov, accessed September 26, 2026. Store locations and BAM’s opening dates from the stores map. Franchisee names do not appear on this page. Data files: states.json, stores.json.