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A franchise costs $50k–$1M to open. We read the brand's official Franchise Disclosure Document and lay out what decides whether it's worth it — investment, fees, Item 19 earnings, litigation, and franchisee churn — each benchmarked against 2,187 brands. Independent, and built for the buyer — not the franchisor.

Brands analyzed

2,187

from official FDDs

Disclose Item 19 earnings

1,127

actual revenue figures

With litigation disclosed

771

Item 3 proceedings

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Why not just read the FDD?

You can — it's public, and 200–300 pages. What you can't get from one document is context: whether a 7% royalty is high, whether $560k average revenue is good, whether the network is shrinking faster than its peers. That only comes from holding the whole market — which is what every report draws on.

See what the whole corpus says in our franchise statistics (earnings-disclosure rates, closure rates, lawsuits), compare any two brands head-to-head, or download the open dataset (CC-BY-4.0).

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This report compiles and structures publicly filed Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) data from state franchise registrations. It is not legal, financial, or investment advice, is not affiliated with or endorsed by any franchisor, and does not replace reading the full FDD or consulting a franchise attorney or accountant. All figures are as disclosed by the franchisor in its most recent registered FDD. Item 19 financial performance representations are made at the franchisor’s option and may be absent or limited.