Cleaning
Office Pride Franchise
A commercial cleaning franchise (offices, schools, medical facilities, and similar B2B accounts) built around single-unit owner-operators plus a network of Area Developers who provide local support in their trade areas. Began as a sole proprietorship under J. Todd Hopkins in March 1992; the current franchisor, Faith Franchising Company, was reorganized into a Delaware LLC in November 2021 as part of a transaction bringing in Trivest Partners, L.P. as a private-equity owner. Franchised unit count has slipped slightly each of the last two years (145 to 144 to 142).
Every franchisor has to file a document called an FDD before they can legally sell you a franchise. Buried in it are the two things a sales rep won't volunteer: what you'll actually spend to open, and whether existing locations are opening or closing. That's what's below, pulled straight from Office Pride's own filing.
What it costs to open
From the filing's investment breakdown -- not a "starting at" number a sales rep quoted you.
Franchise fee
$45,000
Total to open
$71,000–$139,500
Ongoing royalty
9% of gross sales
What you'd actually spend, over time
The upfront cost is only part of it. Plug in what you expect a location to bring in, and see the real total once royalties over a few years are added on top.
Defaulted to a rough cleaning industry average, not a figure from Office Pride's own FDD -- change it to your own estimate.
Total cost of ownership over 5 years
$251,000 – $319,500
Startup investment
$71,000–$139,500
Royalty per year (9%)
$36,000
Total royalty, 5yr
$180,000
When would you break even?
Revenue alone doesn't tell you this -- it depends on what's left after rent, labor, and everything else. Office Pride's FDD doesn't disclose a reliable profit figure (most franchisors don't), so this starts from a typical cleaning profit margin (~20%) and applies it to the revenue you entered above -- adjust the percentage to your own realistic estimate.
Defaulted to a general cleaning industry benchmark, not a figure from Office Pride's own filing -- this is a starting point to adjust, not a promise about what franchisees actually make.
At that profit, you'd break even in about
0.9–1.7 years
Weigh that payback period against what you already know: Office Pride is currently losing locations. A long payback period on a shrinking brand is a very different bet than the same payback period on a growing one.
Is Office Pride actually growing?
Franchisors have to report, every year, how many locations opened, closed, or changed hands. Most franchise sites never show you this. Here it is:
Locations opened vs. closed, by year
ShrinkingFrom Item 20 of Office Pride's FDD, the section franchisors use to disclose real openings and closings.
| Year | Franchised units, start | Franchised units, end | Net change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 145 | 145 | +0 |
| 2024 | 145 | 144 | -1 |
| 2025 | 144 | 142 | -2 |
Most recent year (2025): lost 2 franchised units, ending the year at 142 total.
What you're actually signing up for
The cost and growth numbers above are only part of the picture. These three FDD items are the ones a prospective franchisee tends to weigh most heavily once they're past the sticker price.
Training & ongoing support (Item 11)
Initial training runs 31 classroom hours at headquarters plus 35 in-market hours (delivered by an Area Developer where one covers the territory, otherwise by Office Pride directly) -- 66 hours total. Ongoing support includes centralized billing and collections on the franchisee's accounts receivable, telephone consultation, and an Advertising Fund Office Pride reports spending 34% on production, 44% on media placement, and 22% on administration in the 2025 fiscal year.
Territory protection (Item 12)
You will not receive an exclusive territory -- Office Pride states this explicitly. A territory is typically defined by counties, zip codes, or a metro area sized to roughly 15,000-25,000 businesses, and Office Pride will not modify it without your consent, but the company and its affiliates reserve the right to open other franchised or company-owned locations anywhere regardless of proximity.
Renewal & termination terms (Item 17)
10-year term with a 10-year renewal option (renewal fee 10% of the then-current franchise fee), though a renewal contract may carry materially different terms. Disputes go to mediation then arbitration, both in Palm Harbor, FL, under Florida law; non-compete after termination is 24 months within the Territory or a 50-mile radius of the metro area you operated in.
How Office Pride compares to other Cleaning franchises
Across the 7 cleaning franchises we've hand-verified so far, the typical range to open runs $113,364–$157,614, with royalties averaging around 7.3% of gross sales (based on the 6 of them that charge a flat %-of-revenue royalty).
Keep going
- Office Pride and The Cleaning Authority are both cleaning franchises; Office Pride's total investment starts about $21,850 lower than The Cleaning Authority's. The Cleaning Authority Franchise
- Office Pride and Two Maids are both cleaning franchises; Office Pride's total investment starts about $22,440 lower than Two Maids's. Two Maids Franchise
Where this came from: California DFPI Registration Renewal, dfpi id 654141, App ID APP00005228, filed 4/20/2026, effective 6/17/2026. legalName here is the FDD's current entity name, "Faith Franchising Company, LLC" -- DFPI's own database still lists the pre-2021-conversion name, "Faith Franchising Company, Inc." Item 5: $45,000 initial franchise fee. Item 6: royalty is 9% of Revenue Sales Collected (reduced to 7% for the first two years under the Territory Expansion Program for existing franchisees adding a unit), plus a 1.5% Processing Fee and a 1% Advertising Fund Fee (increasable to 2%). Item 7 Total (single unit): $71,000-$139,500; a separate table for units added under the Multi-Unit Territory Incentive Program totals $17,900-$128,800 and was not used here. Item 20 Table No. 1 confirmed. Item 19 discloses a financial performance representation (average Gross Sales across three overlapping measurement periods); not reproduced here -- read Item 19 directly. You can pull the same filing yourself from the California DFPI's public franchise search. Filed 2026-06-17. None of this is investment advice -- get the franchisor's current FDD and talk to a real attorney or accountant before you sign anything.
If you see a different unit count elsewhere: franchisors only have to refile their FDD annually, so the numbers here can run 6–18 months behind a franchisor's own real-time marketing claims -- which often aren't independently verified, and sometimes count signed-but-not-yet-open locations. A gap isn't necessarily an error on either side; it's two different snapshots in time from two different sources.