ITEM 1. THE
FRANCHISOR, AND ANY PARENTS, PREDECESSORS AND AFFILIATES
We are The Tutoring Center
Franchise Corp. We are a California corporation formed on January 19, 2005. To
simplify this Disclosure Document, we refer to ourselves as "we" or
"us." We refer to the person or company that buys a franchise as
"you."
Our business address is 4300 Long Beach Boulevard, Suite 510, Long Beach, California 90807. Our telephone number is
(562) 984-0830.
Our agents for service of
process in California are Dr. Edward Thalheimer, 4300 Long Beach Boulevard,
Suite 510, Long Beach, California 90807 and the California Department of
Corporations, 320 West 4th Street, Suite 750, Los Angeles, California 90013. Exhibit F identifies our agents in some other states.
Our affiliate, The Tutoring
Center, Inc., a California corporation ("TTCI"), was formed on May
18, 1999 and was a sole proprietorship from September 1, 1994 to May 18, 1999.
TTCI is owned by our president, Dr. Edward Thalheimer. TTCI''s address and
agents for service of process are the same as ours. TTCI owns three corporate
The Tutoring Center locations in Oxnard, Ventura and Long Beach, California. The Oxnard location commenced operations in September 1994; the Ventura location commenced operations in June 2000; and the Long Beach location commenced
operations in June 2002. TTCI owns the proprietary marks which it has licensed
to us so that we may sub-license them to our franchisees.
We have no other
affiliates. We do not have any predecessors or parent.
We operate and grant
franchises for the ownership and operation of an educational tutoring center
(the "center") specializing in after-school tutoring services in
reading, math, writing, pre-algebra, algebra 1 and 2, geometry, test
preparation and study skills for school age children.
You must comply with laws on
operating a business, including obtaining a business license. Your center must
also comply with federal, state and local laws and regulations affecting the
business, including state and local licensing laws, zoning, land use and
construction regulations, federal and state environmental laws and regulations
and various health, safety, sanitation and fire standards. You must also comply
with employment laws, like the Fair Labor Standards Act and state laws covering
matters like minimum wages, overtime and working conditions. In addition, your
center must comply with other laws or regulations that are not specific to the
industry but applicable to businesses generally.
You will compete with other
learning centers and educational institutions offering similar services, some
of which are part of national or regional franchised and non-franchised chains.
The market for your services is developing in some markets and developed in
others.
The United States enacted the
"Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required
to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" (the "USA Patriot
Act"). We are required to comply with the USA Patriot Act. To help us
comply with the USA Patriot Act, we ask you in the Franchise Agreement to
confirm for us that neither you nor your directors, officers, shareholders,
partners, members, employees, or agents are suspected terrorists or persons
associated with suspected terrorists or are under investigation by the U.S. government for criminal activity. You may review the Patriot Act and related
regulations at:
http://www.treasury.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn
We started offering franchises
as of November 2005. Neither we nor any of our affiliates offer franchises in
any other business.
