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Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Significant turnover Item 19 disclosed

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii is a food and beverage franchise with an initial investment ranging from $186,700 to $915,500.

Everything below is free, read straight off Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii's registered filing, with where the numbers land against food & beverage peers. Weighing Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640848 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii franchise make?

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii 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 headline figure is $782,438 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every food & beverage brand that discloses earnings in the Food & beverage franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii 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 Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii's 5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $782,438 of revenue, a 5% royalty alone is about $39,122 a year before any other cost.

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose 2 legal proceedings in Item 3 . Item 3 is the item where a franchisor must put its material legal history on the record. Two things it is not: it covers the franchisor and its predecessors, parents and affiliates, so a disclosed case is not necessarily a suit against Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii itself; and a disclosure is a fact, not a finding of wrongdoing — most entries are contract disputes with former franchisees, which every large system accumulates. 1 of those proceedings were brought by franchisees against the franchisor — the split that actually matters, because franchisees suing their franchisor is the signal a buyer is looking for. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii 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 Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii'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. Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii's latest tables show significant franchisee turnover. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 21.9%, against a food & beverage median of 3.3% — worse than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +10 to 42 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii?

Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii's franchise is offered by Royal Aloha Franchise Company, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Food & beverage franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii 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.

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