Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Related Party Transactions

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Related Party Transactions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions Related Party Transactions
The Company is affiliated with various entities through common control and ownership. The accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets reflect amounts related to periodic advances between the Company and these entities for working capital and other needs as due from related companies or due to related companies, as appropriate. The amounts due from related companies are not expected to be repaid within one year and accordingly, are classified as non-current assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. These advances are unsecured and non-interest bearing.

There were no amounts due from or due to related companies as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021.

For the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company received royalty revenue from franchisees related to a significant stockholder totaling approximately $0.1 million and $0.1 million, respectively.

The Company leases building space for its corporate office from an entity under common ownership with a significant stockholder. This lease had a 36-month term, effective January 1, 2020. For each of the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, rent expense was approximately $0.1 million. In January 2022, we exercised our right to terminate this lease effective as of July 2022. Pursuant to an amended lease we entered into in February 2022, we also lease approximately 16,500 square feet (expanding to approximately 18,500 square feet in July 2022) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a term expiring in 2032, with an option to renew. This building space for our new combined BurgerFi and Anthony’s corporate office is leased from an entity controlled by the Company's Executive Chairman of the Board.

The Company also leases building space for a restaurant located in Virginia from an entity (i) in which the Company's Executive Chairman of the Board has an indirect minority ownership interest, and (ii) which is managed by an entity in which the Company's Executive Chairman of the Board has an indirect ownership interest. This lease, entered into on October 21, 2020, is for a ten-year term effective on the earlier to occur of the date the tenant opened for business and 180 days from the date the landlord delivered possession of the premises to the tenant. Rent expense for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 was $8,000 and $0, respectively.

In April 2021, the Company entered into an independent contractor agreement with a corporation (the “Consultant”) for which the Chief Operating Officer (the "Consultant Principal") of Lionheart Capital, LLC, an entity controlled by the Company’s Executive Chairman of the Board, serves as President. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, the Consultant shall provide certain strategic advisory services to the Company in exchange for total annual cash compensation and expense reimbursements of $0.1 million, payable in twelve (12) equal monthly payments beginning in April 2021. Further, effective January 3, 2022, the Consultant Principal was granted 37,959 unrestricted shares of common stock of the Company, and the Company recorded share based compensation of approximately $0.2 million during the three months ended March 31, 2022 for this award.