BT Brands, Inc.

(a) DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. No matter how well conceived and operated, a control system can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met.

As of December 29, 2024, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer who are our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act.

Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our President and Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 29, 2024, due to the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting described below.

In light of this fact, our management has performed additional analysis and has concluded that, notwithstanding this material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting, the consolidated financial statements for the periods covered by and including this Annual Report on Form 10-K fairly present, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with U.S. GAAP.

(b) REPORT OF MANAGEMENT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act. The Company has designed internal controls to provide reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company assesses the effectiveness of internal controls based on the criteria set forth in the 2013 Internal Control-Integrated Framework developed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

As a result of this evaluation, management has concluded that, as of December 29, 2024, our internal control over financial reporting was not effective due to the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting described below.

(c) MATERIAL WEAKNESS IN INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

As of December 29, 2024, management identified a material weakness that originated in fiscal year 2022 and is continuing in its effort to enhance its design of controls over the accounting and reporting of significant, non-recurring events and complex transactions.

This material weakness could result in a misstatement of account balances or disclosures that would result in a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements, which would not be prevented or detected.

(d) REMEDIATION PLAN

The Company has an ongoing improvement and remediation plan for the identified material weakness. In the future, transactions that are considered complex may result in the Company engaging experts to assist with the accounting for significant, non-recurring events and complex transactions.

The remediation actions are subject to ongoing senior management review and Audit Committee oversight. The Company will not be able to conclude whether the steps to be taken will fully remediate the material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting until remediation efforts are completed, tested, and evaluated for effectiveness.

(e) CHANGES IN INTERNAL CONTROLS OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

In addition to the matters discussed previously, the Company has considered utilizing consultants as an extension of management to assist in the accounting for acquisitions during the fiscal year ending December 29, 2024. Except for the items described above, there were no other changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during our fiscal quarter ended December 29, 2024, that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.