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Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise — is it worth it?
Risk level — in the report
Apple Spice offers a cafe and bakery concept with a focus on box lunch delivery and catering, requiring an initial investment between $387,440 and $473,940.
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- The actual Item 19 earnings — reported average unit revenue, not just “disclosed.”
- How it compares — every number ranked against food & beverage peers (median & quartile).
- Litigation detail — each case, franchisee vs. corporate, with summaries.
- Outlet churn & the questions to ask — behind the net change above: closures, terminations, transfers, and what to put to the franchisor.
Figures above are as disclosed in Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s most recent FDD (registered 2024). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-31861. The risk level, the Item 19 figures, how it compares to peers, and the litigation & churn detail are in the full report.
How much does a Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise make?
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The average revenue Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® reports, what that figure does and doesn't include, and where it ranks against food & beverage peers are in the full report. See every food & beverage brand that discloses earnings in the Food & beverage franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise profit vs. revenue
Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. The full report sets Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s disclosed revenue against its total ongoing fee load, so you can see what that revenue has to cover before anything reaches you.
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)
We do not publish a litigation answer for Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®. Item 3 could not be read reliably from this particular filing, and a claim that a company has no legal history is not one to make on a failed parse — so we say we do not know instead. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check; the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® closures & failure rate
Before you sign, Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a food & beverage of this kind.
The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s latest tables show a stable franchised network. The actual closure and termination counts, and how Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s churn ranks against food & beverage peers, are in the full report.
The actual Item 19 earnings, every figure ranked against food & beverage peers, litigation and churn detail — emailed as a PDF.
Who owns Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®?
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s franchise is offered by Cafe and Bakery Group, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2024), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at CA DFPI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.
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Anyone weighing Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise — frequently asked
Who owns Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® — who is the franchisor?
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s most recently filed FDD (2024) names Cafe and Bakery Group, LLC as the franchisor — the entity you would actually sign the franchise agreement with, as stated on the disclosure document itself. A registry filing names the franchisor, not necessarily its ultimate parent company.
How much does a Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise cost?
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s most recently filed FDD (Item 7) puts the total estimated initial investment at $387,440 – $473,940, with an initial franchise fee of $49,000 and a 6% royalty. That price is the franchisor's own estimate of what it takes to open, not a quote. The full report breaks down every fee line and benchmarks it against food & beverage peers.
How much profit does a Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise make?
Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® discloses unit earnings in Item 19, but that figure is revenue — sales — not profit. Royalties (6% of gross for Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®), the ad fund, rent, payroll and supplies all come out of it, and no FDD discloses what an owner nets. Any Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® franchise profit number quoted elsewhere is an estimate. The full report shows the disclosed revenue against the full ongoing fee load it has to cover.
Does Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® disclose financial performance (Item 19)?
Yes — Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® reports unit-level earnings in Item 19. The full report shows the actual revenue figures and how they rank against food & beverage peers.
Are there lawsuits against Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®?
We do not publish a litigation answer for Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®: Item 3 could not be read reliably from this filing, and we would rather say so than assert a clean record we have not verified. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check.
Is Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice® a good franchise to buy?
That comes down to how Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s investment, earnings, litigation and franchisee churn stack up against food & beverage peers — which is exactly what the full report answers. For $99 you get the risk level and what's driving it, the actual Item 19 earnings (disclosed in this FDD), where every figure ranks against peers, and the specific questions to ask the franchisor before you sign.
Everything the sections above point to, in one place: Apple Spice | Apple Spice Cafe and Bakery | Apple Spice®'s risk level and what's driving it, the actual Item 19 earnings, every figure ranked against food & beverage peers, and the litigation & churn detail — with the questions to put to the franchisor before you sign.
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