−Removed: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
+Added: FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
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−Removed: Kisses From Italy Inc.
−Removed: (together with its subsidiaries),
−Removed: hereinafter referred to as “us,” “our,” “we,” or the “Company”) was incorporated in the
−Removed: State of Florida on March 7, 2013, with a focus on developing a fast, casual food dining chain restaurant business.
−Removed: The Company operates through its wholly-owned
−Removed: subsidiaries, Kisses From Italy 9 th LLC, Kisses From Italy-Franchising LLC, Kisses From Italy, Inc.
−Removed: (Canada) (a company incorporated
−Removed: under the laws of Canada and registered in Quebec on December 23, 2020), and Kisses From Italy Italia SRLS (a limited liability company
−Removed: incorporated in Italy), and its 70% owned subsidiary, Kisses-Palm Sea Royal LLC.
−Removed: We commenced operations by opening our initial
−Removed: corporate-owned restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in May 2015.
−Removed: By April 2016, we opened three additional restaurants located in various
−Removed: Wyndham Hotel properties in the Pompano Beach, Florida area.
−Removed: In September 2017, Hurricane Irma caused significant damage to the area,
−Removed: which resulted in Wyndham halting operations at its hotel properties for repairs and renovations and the closure of our Wyndham hotel
−Removed: In December 2017, we vacated one of our restaurants in the Wyndham Hotel properties due to damage from the hurricane and have
−Removed: not re-opened such restaurant.
−Removed: During the first half of 2021, we consolidated the remaining two Wyndham stores into one location.
−Removed: While our Fort Lauderdale location was reopened
−Removed: in early November 2017, we were only able to reopen two of the hotel locations in Pompano Beach in late January 2018.
−Removed: We also elected
−Removed: not to reopen our fourth location, as the damages were too excessive.
−Removed: If we can raise additional capital, of which there is no assurance,
−Removed: we intend to own and operate up to 10 restaurants and utilize them as a showcase in the marketing of our proposed franchise operations.
−Removed: In May 2017, we completed our National Franchise
−Removed: License which permits us to sell franchises in all of the states in the United States except for New York, Virginia, and Maryland, which
−Removed: licenses we hope to obtain if sufficient demand exists in the future.
−Removed: We opened our first European location in Ceglie
−Removed: del Campo, Bari, Italy, in October 2019.
−Removed: The Bari location closed in April 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, briefly re-opened and has
−Removed: not re-opened as of the date of this Report.
−Removed: Such location was intended to serve as the distribution center for products for European
−Removed: locations, as well as to be used as a training facility for European franchises.
−Removed: However, this initiative has been severely curtailed
−Removed: due to the onset and lingering impact of Covid -19 in Europe.
−Removed: Our two corporate-owned
−Removed: restaurants, one located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and one within the Wyndham location in Pompano Beach, Florida, have fully re-opened
−Removed: without limitation or any social distancing requirement.
−Removed: In September 2019, the Company's common stock
−Removed: was approved for trading by FINRA and in October 2019 was approved for uplisting by the OTC Markets Group to the OTCQB under the symbol
−Removed: In June of 2020, the Company entered into a multi-unit
−Removed: development agreement (the “Development Agreement”) pursuant to which it granted development rights to Demasar Management,
−Removed: (“Demasar”) to open and operate up to 100 restaurants in Canada.
−Removed: Under this Development
−Removed: Agreement, the developer is obligated to open a minimum of 20 restaurants by June 17, 2025.
−Removed: On November 20, 2021, we opened a franchise
−Removed: location under the Development Agreement in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
−Removed: In September of 2020, we entered retail food and
−Removed: grocery stores with Kisses From Italy branded products in Canada.
−Removed: The product launch began in November of 2020 and Kisses From Italy branded
−Removed: products were in nine retail stores by the end of 2020.
−Removed: Currently, Kisses From Italy branded products are in 40 stores across Ontario
−Removed: and Quebec, Canada.
−Removed: In April of 2021, we entered
−Removed: into a Consulting Agreement (the “Consulting Agreement”) with Fransmart, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Fransmart”),
−Removed: pursuant to which we engaged Fransmart as our exclusive global franchise developer and representative for a period of ten years.
−Removed: In June of 2021, the Company’s first franchise location opened
−Removed: in Chino, California.
−Removed: In November of 2021, the Company opened its second franchise location in Montreal, Canada.
−Removed: 9, 2022, Articles of Amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to increase
−Removed: the number of its authorized common stock from 200,000,000 shares to 300,000,000 shares became effective.
−Removed: Such action was approved by
−Removed: the Board of Directors on January 25, 2022 and a majority of the Company’s shareholders on January 27, 2022.
−Removed: of share increase is to make available additional shares of common stock for issuance of all the current obligations of the Company to
−Removed: issue common stock, including under outstanding convertible securities.
−Removed: Covid-19 Pandemic
−Removed: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization
−Removed: declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a global pandemic.
−Removed: In addition to the devastating effects on human life, the pandemic is having a
−Removed: negative ripple effect on the global economy, leading to disruptions and volatility in the global financial markets.
−Removed: Most US states and
−Removed: many countries have issued policies intended to stop or slow the further spread of the disease.
−Removed: Covid-19 and the U.S’s response to the pandemic
−Removed: are significantly affecting the economy.
−Removed: There are no comparable events that provide guidance as to the effect the Covid-19 pandemic may
−Removed: have, and, as a result, the ultimate effect of the pandemic is highly uncertain and subject to change.
−Removed: We do not yet know the full extent
−Removed: of the effects on the economy, the markets we serve, our business, or our operations.
−Removed: The Company’s two corporate-owned restaurants
−Removed: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the Wyndham location in Pompano Beach, Florida, have fully re-opened.
−Removed: The Company’s Bari location
−Removed: in Italy remains closed.
Results of Operations
−Removed: Comparison of Results of Operations for the years ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021 and 2020
−Removed: Revenue and Cost of
−Removed: Total revenues for the
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2021 were $400,662 compared to $514,038 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Revenues for the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021 was comprised of $364,662 in food sales and $36,116 in sales of branded products to retail locations in Canada, which the Company
−Removed: began selling in the fourth quarter of 2020;
−Removed: compared to food sales of $222,453 and franchise sales of $291,585 during the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The decrease in total revenues in 2021 compared to 2020 is due to $291,585 in franchise sales in the 2020 period compared
−Removed: to no franchise sales in 2021, offset to a lesser extent by the increase in food sales in the year ended December 31, 2021 due to the
−Removed: mitigation of the impact of Covid-19.
−Removed: Cost of goods sold during
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2021 was $203,121 compared to $114,101 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: This increase is attributable
−Removed: to higher food sales volumes in the year ended December 31, 2021 and franchise sales in the year ended December 31, 2020 with no cost
−Removed: of goods sold associated with those sales.
+Added: Comparison of Results of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2021
+Added: Revenue and Cost of Sales
+Added: Total revenues for the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2022, were $391,447 compared to $400,662 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2022 was comprised
+Added: of $365,970 in food sales and $25,477 in sales of branded products to retail locations in Canada;
+Added: compared to food sales of $364,662
+Added: and franchise sales of $36,116 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The revenues in 2022 were comparable to 2021 due to no change
+Added: in the retail environment for our products.
+Added: We are working on new concepts and menu changes but there can be no assurances that these
+Added: changes will be successful.
+Added: Cost of goods sold during the year ended December 31, 2022 was
+Added: $213,106 compared to $203,121 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: This slight increase in cost of sales in 2022 over 2021 levels
+Added: is attributable to higher food costs in 2022, offset by improved operating efficiencies.
Operating expenses
−Removed: Operating expenses were
−Removed: $4,337,390 for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to $3,640,846 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Non-cash stock-based
−Removed: compensation was $3,765,591 and $2,978,201 for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.
−Removed: Excluding the stock-based
−Removed: compensation in both periods, operating expenses were $571,999 for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $662,645 for the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: This decrease is primarily attributable to a decrease in depreciation expense of $47,373 and a decrease in payroll
−Removed: The decrease in payroll is attributable to employee retention tax credits enacted by the government due to Covid-19, available
−Removed: to employers in the restaurant industry to reduce the employer’s share of certain payroll taxes.
+Added: Operating expenses were $675,579 for the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2022, compared to $4,337,390 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: Non-cash stock-based compensation was $5,170 and $3,765,5911 for
+Added: the years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively.
+Added: Excluding the stock-based compensation in both periods, operating
+Added: expenses were $675,579 for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to $571,999 for the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: This is primarily
+Added: attributable to increased general and administrative expenses due to inflationary factors as well increased corporate activity.
Other income and expense
−Removed: Other expenses comprising
−Removed: interest expense was $798,877 for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $497,613 during the year December 31, 2021.
−Removed: in other expenses is attributable to fewer conversions of equity instruments with beneficial conversion issues in which interest expense
−Removed: was recognized.
−Removed: As a result of the forgoing, the net loss attributable
−Removed: to Kisses From Italy Inc.
−Removed: for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $4,942,113 for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to a net loss
−Removed: attributable to Kisses of Italy, Inc of $3,709,402 for same period ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: Other expenses comprising interest expense and change in the fair
+Added: value of the derivative liability was $362,467 for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to $798,877 during the year December 31,
+Added: The decrease in other expenses is attributable to fewer conversions of equity instruments with beneficial conversion issues in which
+Added: interest expense was recognized in 2021 compared to 2022, a gain of $34,373 from the extinguishment of debt, partially offset by an increase
+Added: of $73,398 due to the recognition of a derivative liability in 2022 compared to zero in the 2021 period.
+Added: As a result of the forgoing, the net loss attributable to Kisses
+Added: From Italy Inc.
+Added: for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $847,385 compared to a net loss attributable to Kisses of Italy, Inc of $4,942,113
+Added: for same period ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The decrease in the net loss in the 2022 period is primarily
+Added: attributable to a decrease of $3,760,421 of non-cash stock based compensation, decreased other expense in 2022 partially offset by increased
+Added: general and administrative expenses .
Liquidity and Capital Resources
−Removed: On December 31, 2021, we had $139,485 in cash
−Removed: and cash equivalents.
−Removed: Net cash used in operating activities was $451,591
−Removed: during the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to net cash used of $169,984 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The increase in
−Removed: net cash used in operating activities of $273,000 is primarily attributable to an increase in net loss, net of non-cash stock based compensation,
−Removed: in the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Net cash provided by financing activities was
−Removed: $555,650 for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $181,761 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The increase in net cash provided
−Removed: by financing activities is primarily attributable to sales of common stock of $435,650 in 2021 compared to $19,990 in the year ended December
−Removed: Net cash used in investing activities was $1,910
−Removed: due to the purchase of fixed assets during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $1,136 during the period ended December 30, 2020.
+Added: On December 31, 2022, we had $324,493 in cash and cash equivalents.
+Added: Net cash used in operating activities was $579,140 during the year
+Added: ended December 31, 2022, compared to net cash used of $451,591 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The increase in net cash used
+Added: in operating activities of $127,459 is primarily attributable to increased operating losses net of non-cash items compared to the year
+Added: ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: Net cash used in investing activities was $40,852 due to the purchase
+Added: of fixed assets during the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $1,910 during the period ended December 30, 2021.
+Added: Net cash provided by financing activities was $805,000 for the
+Added: year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $555,650 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The difference in the 2022 period compared
+Added: to 2021 is attributable to proceeds of $550,000 from convertible notes, $250,000 from proceeds in notes payable, compared to $435,650
+Added: in proceeds from the sale of common stock and $120,000 in proceeds from the sale of preferred stock.
During the next year, we estimate that we will
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restaurants will assist us to market other locations.
−Removed: There can be no assurances that additional financing,
−Removed: either through equity or debt, will be available on a timely basis, on favorable terms or at all.
−Removed: While we have had discussions with potential
−Removed: investors and investment bankers, we have no agreement with any third party to provide additional financing.
+Added: There can be no assurances that additional financing, either through
+Added: equity or debt, will be available on a timely basis, on favorable terms, or at all.
+Added: While we have had discussions with potential investors
+Added: and investment bankers, we have no agreement with any third party to provide additional financing.
Our inability to obtain additional
−Removed: financing may have a significant negative impact on our continued development and results of our operations.
−Removed: Covid-19 has also caused significant disruptions
−Removed: to the global financial markets, which impacts our ability to raise additional capital.
−Removed: If the Company is unable to obtain adequate capital
−Removed: due to the continued spread of Covid-19, the Company may be required to reduce the scope, delay, or eliminate some or all of its planned
+Added: financing may have a significant negative impact on our continued development and the results of our operations.
+Added: Covid-19 has also caused significant disruptions to the global
+Added: financial markets, which impacts our ability to raise additional capital.
+Added: If the Company is unable to obtain adequate capital due to the
+Added: continued spread of Covid-19, the Company may be required to reduce the scope, delay, or eliminate some or all of its planned operations.
Going Concern
−Removed: Our consolidated financial statements were prepared
−Removed: assuming that we will continue as a going concern and do not include adjustments for the recoverability and the realization of assets
−Removed: and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business for the twelve months following the date of the financial statements
−Removed: that may be necessary should we be unable to continue in operation.
−Removed: In addition, the Company continues to experience negative cash flows
−Removed: from operations.
−Removed: Also, if the Company is unable to obtain adequate capital due to the continued spread of Covid-19, the Company may be
−Removed: required to further reduce the scope, delay, or eliminate some or all of its planned operations.
−Removed: These factors, among others, raise substantial
−Removed: doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result
−Removed: from the outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
−Removed: We have no off-balance sheet arrangements.
+Added: Our consolidated financial statements were prepared to assume that
+Added: we will continue as a going concern and do not include adjustments for the recoverability and the realization of assets and the satisfaction
+Added: of liabilities in the normal course of business for the twelve months following the date of the financial statements that may be necessary
+Added: should we be unable to continue in operation.
+Added: In addition, the Company continues to experience negative cash flows from operations.
+Added: factors, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The financial statements do
+Added: not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
We have no off-balance sheet arrangements.
−Removed: Critical Accounting Estimates
−Removed: Management’s discussion and analysis of
−Removed: our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with
−Removed: accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
−Removed: The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates
−Removed: and judgments that affect the amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.
−Removed: On an on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates based on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be
−Removed: reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities
−Removed: that are not readily apparent from other sources.
−Removed: Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
−Removed: Our critical accounting policies are defined as those policies that we believe are the most important to the portrayal of our financial
−Removed: condition and results of operations and that require management’s most difficult, subjective, or complex judgments, often as a result
−Removed: of the need to make estimates about the effects of matters that are inherently uncertain.
−Removed: See Note 2 – Summary Of Significant Accounting
−Removed: Policies to our Financial Statements.
+Added: Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
+Added: Critical accounting estimates – The discussion and analysis of our
+Added: financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance
+Added: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
+Added: The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires
+Added: us to make estimates and judgments that affect the amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent
+Added: assets and liabilities.
+Added: On an on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates based on historical experience and on various other assumptions
+Added: that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying
+Added: values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.
+Added: Actual results may differ from these estimates under
+Added: different assumptions or conditions.
+Added: The following represents a summary of our critical accounting policies, defined as those policies
+Added: that we believe are the most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and that require management’s
+Added: most difficult, subjective, or complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effects of matters that are
+Added: inherently uncertain.
+Added: Stock-based Compensation – We account for stock-based compensation
+Added: using the fair value method following the guidance set forth in section 718-10 of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification for disclosure
+Added: about Stock-Based Compensation.
+Added: This section requires a public entity to measure the cost of employee services received in exchange for
+Added: an award of equity instruments based on the grant-date fair value of the award (with limited exceptions).
+Added: That cost will be recognized
+Added: over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award- the requisite service period (usually
+Added: the vesting period).
+Added: No compensation cost is recognized for equity instruments for which employees do not render the requisite service.
+Added: Leases – We follow the guidance in ASC 840 “Leases,” which
+Added: requires us to evaluate the lease agreements we enter into to determine whether they represent operating or capital leases at the inception
+Added: of the lease.
+Added: On November 15, 2019, the FASB has issued ASU 2019-10, which amends the effective dates
+Added: for three major accounting standards.
+Added: The ASU defers the effective dates for the credit losses, derivatives, and leases standards
+Added: (ASC 842) for certain companies.
+Added: Since we are classified as a “emerging growth company” and we have a calendar-year end we
+Added: are eligible for deferring the adoption of ASC 842 to December 15, 2021.
+Added: ASC 842 will be effective for us beginning on December 15, 2021.
+Added: While we continue to evaluate
+Added: the impact of the new standard, we expect the adoption of this guidance will have not have any impact on our financial statements.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: There were various accounting standards and interpretations
−Removed: issued recently, none of which are expected to have a material effect on the Company's operations, financial position, or cash flows.
−Removed: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES
−Removed: ABOUT MARKET RISK.
−Removed: As a smaller reporting company and are not required
−Removed: to provide the information under this Item.
+Added: Under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, we meet the definition of
+Added: an “emerging growth company.” We have irrevocably elected to opt out of the extended transition period for complying with
+Added: new or revised accounting standards pursuant to Section 107(b) of the JOBS Act.
+Added: As a result, we will comply with new or revised accounting
+Added: standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for non- emerging growth companies.
+Added: On January 1, 2018, we adopted Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic
+Added: 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”), using the modified retrospective method applied to those contracts
+Added: which were not completed as of January 1, 2018.
+Added: Results for reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2018 are presented under ASC
+Added: 606, while prior period amounts are not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with our historic accounting under ASC 605.
+Added: of and for the year ended December 31, 2018, our consolidated financial statements were not materially impacted as a result of the application
+Added: of Topic 606 compared to Topic 605.
+Added: In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which establishes
+Added: a new lease accounting model for lessees.
+Added: The updated guidance requires an entity to recognize assets and liabilities arising from financing
+Added: and operating leases, along with additional qualitative and quantitative disclosures.
+Added: The amended guidance is effective for fiscal years,
+Added: and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: In March 2019, the FASB issued
+Added: ASU 2019-01, Codification Improvements, which clarifies certain aspects of the new lease standard.
+Added: The FASB issued ASU 2018-10, Codification
+Added: Improvements to Topic 842, Leases in July 2018.
+Added: Also in 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842) Targeted Improvements,
+Added: which provides an optional transition method whereby the new lease standard is applied at the adoption date and recognized as an adjustment
+Added: to retained earnings.
+Added: The amendments have the same effective date and transition requirements as the new lease standard.
+Added: On November 15, 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-10, which amends the effective dates for
+Added: three major accounting standards.
+Added: The ASU defers the effective dates for the credit losses, derivatives, and leases standards (ASC 842)
+Added: for certain companies.
+Added: Since we are classified as a “emerging growth company” and we have a calendar-year end we are eligible
+Added: for deferring the adoption of ASC 842 to December 15, 2021.
+Added: While we continue to evaluate the impact of the new standard, we expect the
+Added: adoption of this guidance will have not have any impact on our financial statements.
+Added: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.
+Added: We are a smaller reporting company and are not required to provide the information under
+Added: this item pursuant to Regulation S-K.
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