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For franchisors, brand operations, and multi-unit chains
Your standards already require it. You can’t see it from headquarters.
Brand standards say the hood is cleaned on schedule and the suppression, sprinklers and alarm are serviced. What headquarters actually holds is a field consultant’s checkbox and an annual attestation. A fire at one unit is the brand’s headline, and the first question afterward is whether the system could prove the standard was met.
7,410
Structure fires a year, eating and drinking establishments
22%
Traced to a lapse in cleaning
$3,968 – $2.6M
Modeled cost of one outbreak at one unit
National Fire Protection Association · Bartsch et al., Public Health Reports, 2018
Free · 2 minutes · about the system, not a unit
How much of your system could prove the standard today?
Five questions. Answered honestly, they size the gap between the standard and the record.
1How many units in the system?
2How is fire-system service verified at the unit level today?
3In the last three years, any fire in the system traced to a lapse in cleaning or a lapsed service?
4What share of units are franchised?
5Who owns facilities compliance at the brand?
Your answers are used two ways: to give you your result, and — anonymously, in totals of ten or more — to improve fire and food safety education. They are never sold and never shared with your name on them.
The gap between the standard and the record
Today
A checkbox and an attestation
The standard exists. The evidence lives in a binder at each unit, in whatever state that unit’s GM keeps it, tested once — after the loss.
With verified records
The standard, met, with dates
Each unit’s five fire records sealed when the service happened, by whom, to which standard. Readable by brand operations without a site visit.
Send it across the system. See it by franchisee, by unit, by county.
Each unit answers for itself in three minutes, without an account. Brand operations sees the roster the way a field consultant would if they could be everywhere at once.
System roster
Sample — what it looks like when units answer
| Franchisee | Units answered | Fire, all five on file | Food, all on file | Weakest record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A — Central Valley | 12 of 14 | 7 of 12 | 11 of 12 | Suppression service |
| Group B — Bay Area | 9 of 9 | 9 of 9 | 7 of 9 | Cooling logs |
| Group C — Inland Empire | 4 of 11 | 1 of 4 | 3 of 4 | Hood cleaning |
| Company-owned — SoCal | 22 of 22 | 16 of 22 | 21 of 22 | Sprinkler inspection |
Your franchisees have a page of their own: what a franchisee group sees → · each unit’s county, in its own terms: the county pages →
Two ways this works with a brand
Franchised units
Approved supplier, suggested Risk Assessment
EvidLY on your approved-supplier list, and the three-minute Risk Assessment offered to franchisees — through your field team, your franchisee portal, or your annual attestation. Each franchisee decides for themselves; you see the system readiness as they answer.
No mandate required. No cost to the brand.
Company-owned units
Enterprise
Ten units or more, built around your footprint — every county, every vendor, every record collected and sealed. Dedicated onboarding, a service-level agreement, and a pilot first on three to five units if you want to see it before you commit.
Pricing set for your footprint, one-on-one.
What EvidLY does and does not do
EvidLY identifies which records exist at each unit and their dates, sealed against later alteration. It does not inspect, does not certify, does not review your franchisees on your behalf, and never makes a coverage determination. A franchisee’s answers are theirs — the brand sees the roster because the franchisee took the Risk Assessment, not because EvidLY reported on them.
Talk to EvidLY about your system.
Thirty minutes. Bring how the brand verifies fire service today; we’ll bring what a system-wide record looks like and what it takes to get there without a mandate.