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Earthwise Pet and GroomBar franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar operates in the pet services category, offering mobile pet grooming.

Everything below is free, read straight off Earthwise Pet and GroomBar's registered filing, with where the numbers land against pet services peers. Weighing Earthwise Pet and GroomBar against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Earthwise Pet and GroomBar's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 37210-202608-17 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

How much does a Earthwise Pet and GroomBar franchise make?

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar 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 did not machine-read cleanly from this filing, so we don't print one; Item 19 of the source FDD has the tables. See every pet services brand that discloses earnings in the Pet services franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar 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 Earthwise Pet and GroomBar's 5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Earthwise Pet and GroomBar franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Earthwise Pet and GroomBar franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Earthwise Pet and GroomBar 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 Earthwise Pet and GroomBar's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a pet services 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. Earthwise Pet and GroomBar's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 0.9%, against a pet services median of 1.6% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +10 to 123 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Earthwise Pet and GroomBar?

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar's franchise is offered by NPM Franchising, 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 MN CARDS; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it. The same franchisor files separate FDDs for other brands, which is worth knowing — sibling brands share a franchise-support organization but disclose their own numbers:

Pet services franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Earthwise Pet and GroomBar 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.

Earthwise Pet and GroomBar franchise — frequently asked