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Food & Beverage Franchises
What these brands actually cost to open, and whether they're opening more locations or losing them -- straight from each one's FDD, not a "starting at" number from a sales page.
Across the 52 food & beverage franchises verified here, the initial investment averages $860,899 to $2,165,095; the lowest entry point is Kona Ice at $114,730, and Culver's runs up to $10,294,100. Initial franchise fees range from $5,000 to $65,000. Royalties average 5.6% of gross sales (4 of these disclose a non-percentage royalty). By the most recent Item 20 filing, 39 are opening more franchised locations than they close, 13 are losing locations.
Computed from the 52 entries listed below, each sourced from its own FDD -- not an industry-wide estimate.
How food & beverage compares to the rest of the portfolio
Food & Beverage franchises here average a low-end investment of $860,899, against $607,082 across all 130 brands verified on the site -- about 42% higher than the portfolio average.
Royalties here average 5.6% of gross sales, against 6.1% across every verified brand on the site.
75% of the 52 verified food & beverage brands are in a net-growth year by their latest Item 20 filing.
The investment range above is Item 7 of each food & beverage franchisor's FDD -- it bundles the initial franchise fee with real estate or lease costs, equipment and signage, opening inventory, training expenses, and a working-capital reserve, not just the fee itself. Two food & beverage brands with the same fee can still land at very different totals depending on how much build-out their concept needs.
$617,800–$2,170,000
$1,188,900–$4,944,000
$315,830–$2,093,361
$848,566–$1,472,533
$376,500–$1,769,200
$480,850–$941,300
$300,000–$720,500
$188,675–$636,458
$114,730–$228,601
$166,671–$950,351
$310,400–$1,048,500
$436,176–$1,162,228
$532,400–$1,832,500
$1,222,045–$3,923,245
$1,461,200–$3,313,500
$757,000–$1,297,100
$1,202,400–$1,886,300
$924,732–$1,220,633
$2,959,000–$5,734,000
$1,470,500–$2,642,000
$263,000–$630,000
$1,859,750–$4,312,200
$231,450–$743,500
$2,107,575–$4,155,000
$2,039,200–$4,730,600
$317,521–$3,463,155
$507,500–$858,750
$243,155–$647,160
$366,200–$733,500
$1,485,200–$2,522,900
$281,485–$890,267
$238,982–$697,322
$1,909,500–$4,041,500
$1,523,957–$2,992,000
$286,477–$811,186
$846,000–$2,130,000
$777,000–$998,500
$392,667–$1,121,405
$390,675–$680,775
$1,163,650–$1,345,750
$475,200–$994,100
$977,850–$1,375,750
$427,500–$3,312,500
$940,500–$2,283,500
$608,400–$1,718,000
$3,406,350–$10,294,100
$1,516,200–$2,543,050
$727,515–$1,860,550
$1,614,568–$4,589,057
$329,850–$683,215
$380,550–$3,735,850
$256,950–$703,500
Keep going
- Food & Beverage franchises average $860,899 to get in the door; see how that compares to every other industry in the same $500,000+ tier. Franchises $500,000+ to Start
- 39 of the 52 food & beverage franchises here are in a net-growth year; see how they stack up against growing brands in every other industry. Franchises That Are Actually Growing
Only brands we've hand-verified against their actual filing show up here -- more food & beverage franchises are added as they're checked.