Company: BTBDW
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001477932-25-002248
Chunk: 886

Company: BT Brands, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 886
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 habits change significantly, we may be required to modify or delete specific menu items. If we cannot adjust our menu offerings appropriately, regulations may adversely impact customer demand and our revenues.

We are subject to many federal, state, and local laws and compliance is costly and complex.

The restaurant industry is subject to extensive federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including those relating to the preparation and sale of food, licensing and regulation by state and local authorities relating to health, sanitation, safety, and fire standards. Our relationships with employees (including the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, and applicable requirements concerning the minimum wage, overtime, family leave, working conditions, safety standards, immigration status, unemployment tax rates, workers’ compensation rates and state and local payroll taxes) and federal and state laws which prohibit discrimination. Our ability to respond to labor cost increases by raising menu prices will depend on the responses of our competitors and customers. Higher wage costs, benefit standards, and compliance costs could also affect our distributors and suppliers, resulting in higher costs.

We are subject to the ADA, which, among other things, requires our restaurants to meet federally mandated requirements for disabled people. The ADA prohibits discrimination in employment and public accommodations based on disability. Under the ADA, we could be required to expend funds to modify our restaurants to provide service to or make reasonable accommodations for the employment of disabled persons. In addition, our employment practices are subject to the requirements of the Immigration and Naturalization Service relating to citizenship and residency. Government regulations could also affect and change the items we procure for resale.

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The impact of current laws and regulations, the effect of future changes in laws or regulations that impose additional requirements and the consequences of litigation relating to current or future laws and regulations, or our inability to respond effectively to significant regulatory or public policy issues, could increase our compliance and other costs of doing business and, therefore, hurt our results of operations. Failure to comply with the laws and regulatory requirements of federal, state, and local authorities could result in, among other things, revocation of required licenses, administrative enforcement actions, fines, and civil and criminal liability. In addition, certain laws, including the ADA, could require us to expend significant funds.

Failure to comply with regulations could result in losing our food service licenses, harming our business.

Under various federal, state, and local government regulations, restaurants are required to obtain and maintain licenses, permits and approvals to operate their businesses. Such regulations are