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Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Shrinking network Item 19 disclosed

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is a well-known food and beverage brand with a disclosed Item 19, showing average traditional store sales of $705,680.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 37101-202608-06 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

How much does a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise make?

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory 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 $705,680 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.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory 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 Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's 5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $705,680 of revenue, a 5% royalty alone is about $35,284 a year before any other cost.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose 4 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 Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory 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.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory 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 Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory'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. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's latest tables show a shrinking franchised network — more units left than opened. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 2.9%, against a food & beverage median of 3.3% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved -2 to 136 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory?

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's franchise is offered by ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHOCOLATE FACTORY, INC. — 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.

Food & beverage franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory 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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