How Does the Fastest Labs Franchise Work?

Fastest Labs operates as a territory-based testing center: the franchisee develops employer and individual accounts, schedules or accepts testing demand, performs controlled specimen collections at an approved Facility or on-site, routes laboratory work through approved providers, delivers authorized results, bills the account, and records the transaction in required systems.

An FT Business sells approved testing and compliance services to commercial accounts and individual consumers, with employer relationships creating both one-time tests and recurring program-management work.

The authorized menu includes drug testing, DNA and paternity testing, alcohol testing, random-program administration, physical testing, background checks, and related services. The Franchise Brand Standards Manual separates Rapid Screen, DOT, Non-DOT, hair, nail, breath-alcohol, mobile, specialty, background-check, and physical procedures. Fas-Tes may add required services or prohibit a service even when local law would otherwise permit it.

Official pages describe a four-part path—find a location, request an appointment, visit, and receive results—plus employer services, random program management, and mobile collection. These pages clarify channels; the 2026 FDD and Franchise Agreement control authority.

The operating cycle connects local account development to territory validation, authorized intake, controlled collection, laboratory or rapid-test processing, result delivery, billing, reporting, and repeat program service.

The unit may be supervised by a Designated Manager only with franchisor permission; the model still requires active owner or Managing Owner involvement and does not support a contractual absentee-ownership claim.

The FT Business must remain under full-time supervision by the franchisee, a trained Managing Owner, or an approved Designated Manager. The supervisor must devote at least 20 weekly hours to sales and business development and avoid conflicting activities. With a Designated Manager, the Managing Owner remains active and devotes approximately 30 hours per week.

Employees perform intake, collection, customer service, administration, and account support under the trained supervisor. The FDD requires sufficient competent staff but discloses no headcount or staffing ratios. The franchisee hires and schedules staff; Fas-Tes controls training, confidentiality, attire, service standards, and Mandatory Hours of Operation—currently Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., unless approved otherwise.

Fastest Labs is supplier- and system-dependent: the franchisee must use the specified Computer System, approved laboratories, designated service providers, approved testing supplies, and franchisor-controlled operating documentation.

Item 8 names Gallagher, Scorpion, Darter, Intuit, and Fas-Tes as required sources for designated categories. Testing equipment, signage, initial marketing, branded items, test kits, uniforms, insurance, software, and advertising are restricted. Where no single source applies, the franchisee may propose an alternative; Fas-Tes has 30 days after a complete submission to decide and may inspect the supplier.

The Territory limits where the franchisee may market and own client relationships, but it is expressly non-exclusive and does not block franchisor internet sales, national accounts, alternative channels, or competitive brands the franchisor may control.

Fas-Tes generally will not place another Fastest Labs Facility inside the Territory while the franchisee complies and accepts applicable National or Regional Account work. This is not customer exclusivity. The franchisee cannot independently sell outside the Territory through Internet, telemarketing, or direct channels; Fas-Tes may use electronic or dissimilar channels and set national-account pricing.

Item 20 reports rapid franchised-outlet growth through 2024 followed by a smaller net increase in 2025, while the disclosed company-owned population remained one outlet.

Franchised Company-owned

The disclosed franchised count rose by 61 outlets from year-end 2023 to year-end 2025, but Item 20’s 2025 component rows require reconciliation with other FDD figures.

Source: 2026 FDD, Item 20, Table 1, p. 54. Values shown are the franchised and company-owned component rows, not the stated total row.

The franchisee controls daily execution within a narrow operating envelope; Fas-Tes retains the principal system, product, channel, technology, supplier, quality, and audit powers.

The franchisee can choose an owner-supervised or approved manager-supervised structure, hire employees, develop accounts inside the Territory, propose a site, use permitted vendors, propose alternatives where allowed, and generally set retail prices when Fas-Tes has not imposed a lawful minimum, maximum, or National or Regional Account price. Local creative cannot be used until approved.

Fas-Tes may change Approved Services, procedures, equipment, software, forms, pricing requirements, website content, suppliers, and brand standards. It may inspect the Facility and Business Records without notice, audit reporting, require corrections, and exercise step-in rights when operations are abandoned, noncompliant, or in jeopardy. Payroll, licensing, customer service, and operating liability remain with the franchisee.