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Fazoli's franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

Fazoli's is a quick-service restaurant franchise with an initial investment ranging from $270,000 to $485,000.

Everything below is free, read straight off Fazoli's's registered filing, with where the numbers land against quick-service restaurant peers. Weighing Fazoli's against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Fazoli's's most recent FDD (registered 2025). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 35446-202603-03 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

How much does a Fazoli's franchise make?

Fazoli's 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 $1,355,461 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 quick-service restaurant brand that discloses earnings in the Fast food & quick-service restaurant franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Fazoli's 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 Fazoli's's 5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Fazoli's franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Fazoli's franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $1,355,461 of revenue, a 5% royalty alone is about $67,773 a year before any other cost.

Fazoli's lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Fazoli's's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) does disclose 3 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 Fazoli's 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.

Fazoli's closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Fazoli's 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 Fazoli's's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a quick-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. Fazoli's's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Fazoli's?

Fazoli's's franchise is offered by FAZOLI'S FRANCHISING SYSTEMS, 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 MN CARDS; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Quick-service restaurant franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Fazoli's 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.

Fazoli's franchise — frequently asked