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Playful Pack franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

Playful Pack is a pet services franchise with a very small, but growing, network.

Everything below is free, read straight off Playful Pack's registered filing. Weighing Playful Pack against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Playful Pack's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 641341 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Playful Pack franchise make?

Playful Pack 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 $853,759 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 pet services brand that discloses earnings in the Pet services franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Playful Pack 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 Playful Pack's 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Playful Pack franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Playful Pack franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $853,759 of revenue, a 6% royalty alone is about $51,226 a year before any other cost.

Playful Pack lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Playful Pack'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.

Playful Pack closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Playful Pack 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 Playful Pack'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. Playful Pack's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Net franchised outlets moved +2 to 3 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Playful Pack?

Playful Pack's franchise is offered by Playful Pack 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 WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Other pet services franchises

Anyone weighing Playful Pack 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.

Playful Pack franchise — frequently asked