Buying an existing Nutrition House

What Nutrition House says about existing stores

Nutrition House’s two franchise pages, “Franchise Information” and “Our Franchise Advantage”, speak to new franchisees and to international partners (as published, read Oct 22, 2026). Neither says that the franchisor sells, brokers or introduces buyers to existing stores, and neither names a resale process. That is not proof that no process exists. It means the pages we read are silent, so a buyer should ask Nutrition House directly how it handles a transfer.

What a listing is

A resale listing is advertised by a franchisee, or by a broker acting for one, and the asking price is that seller’s number for a trading store. Ask which of the lease, fixtures, inventory and sales records are included in the sale. The asking price is what the advertiser wrote. It is not a valuation, and it is not a figure Nutrition House has published.

Approvals to check before closing

Ask for the franchise agreement’s transfer clause. Check whether it requires the franchisor’s consent, on what grounds consent may be refused, and what may be charged. Who has to approve a franchise resale explains the franchisor and lender approvals, which run on separate tracks, and a transfer fee is one charge to ask about. Nutrition House gives no training length, so ask whether you would be required to complete any (does a resale require retraining?), and whether the store would need to be renovated to the “Sedona” theme its franchise pages describe (do I have to renovate a franchise resale?).

Disclosure before you sign

The listings Deavo held on Oct 20, 2026 were in Ontario. Ontario’s Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000 shows what an exemption looks like. Section 5(7)(a) says the disclosure duty does not apply to “the grant of a franchise by a franchisee” if all four conditions hold: the franchisee “is not the franchisor, an associate of the franchisor or a director, officer or employee of the franchisor or of the franchisor’s associate”; the franchise is for the franchisee’s own account; in the case of a master franchise, the entire franchise is granted; and the grant “is not effected by or through the franchisor.” Section 5(8) adds that a grant is not “effected by or through” the franchisor merely because the franchisor has a right, exercisable on reasonable grounds, to approve or disapprove it, or because a transfer fee is payable — one set out in the franchise agreement or no more than the franchisor’s reasonable actual cost of processing the grant. So buying an Ontario Nutrition House store from its franchisee may come with no disclosure document at all; whether it does depends on the facts of the sale, which is a question for a franchise lawyer before you sign. See what disclosure a resale buyer gets.