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Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen franchise — is it worth it?
Risk level — in the report
Famous Toastery is a full-service restaurant franchise with an investment range of $687,500 to $1,206,000.
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- The actual Item 19 earnings — reported average unit revenue, not just “disclosed.”
- How it compares — every number ranked against full-service restaurant 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 Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's most recent FDD (registered 2025). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-31723. 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 Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen franchise make?
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen 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 Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen reports, what that figure does and doesn't include, and where it ranks against full-service restaurant peers are in the full report. See every full-service restaurant brand that discloses earnings in the Full-service restaurant franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen 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 Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's 5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. The full report sets Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's disclosed revenue against its total ongoing fee load, so you can see what that revenue has to cover before anything reaches you.
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) 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.
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen closures & failure rate
Before you sign, Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen 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 Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a full-service restaurant 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. Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's latest tables show a shrinking franchised network — more units left than opened. The actual closure and termination counts, and how Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's churn ranks against full-service restaurant peers, are in the full report.
The actual Item 19 earnings, every figure ranked against full-service restaurant peers, litigation and churn detail — emailed as a PDF.
Who owns Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen?
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's franchise is offered by Holiday Park Partners, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025), 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.
Full-service restaurant franchises at a similar investment level
Anyone weighing Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen 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.
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen franchise — frequently asked
Who owns Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen — who is the franchisor?
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's most recently filed FDD (2025) names Holiday Park Partners, 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 Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen franchise cost?
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's most recently filed FDD (Item 7) puts the total estimated initial investment at $687,500 – $1,206,000, with an initial franchise fee of $50,000 and a 5% 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 full-service restaurant peers.
How much profit does a Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen franchise make?
Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen discloses unit earnings in Item 19, but that figure is revenue — sales — not profit. Royalties (5% of gross for Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen), the ad fund, rent, payroll and supplies all come out of it, and no FDD discloses what an owner nets. Any Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen 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 Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen disclose financial performance (Item 19)?
Yes — Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen reports unit-level earnings in Item 19. The full report shows the actual revenue figures and how they rank against full-service restaurant peers.
Are there lawsuits against Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen?
No — Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's most recently filed FDD (2025) discloses no litigation in Item 3. Franchisors must disclose material litigation involving themselves, their predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 is a genuine signal rather than an omission.
Is Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen a good franchise to buy?
That comes down to how Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's investment, earnings, litigation and franchisee churn stack up against full-service restaurant 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: Famous Toastery | Toast Cafe | Toast City Kitchen's risk level and what's driving it, the actual Item 19 earnings, every figure ranked against full-service restaurant peers, and the litigation & churn detail — with the questions to put to the franchisor before you sign.
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