Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ GA
Arby's Franchise
A Inspire Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1965. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Arby's, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $342K – $2.3M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 4.0%
- Royalty rate · Below-average royalty
- 3,511
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.3M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry arby-s Arby's
Arby's needs $342K–$2.3M to open and charges a 4.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $342K
- HI $2.3M
- FEE $38K
- ROY 4.0%
- UNT 3,511
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #75/223
- UNT# #34/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Chick-fil-A ($343K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Arby's (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Arby's's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.6% net unit growth (YoY) 27/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Arby's's investment ranks nationally
Arby's's listed Item 7 low of $342K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Arby's vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$342,000 Around the middle lower than 34% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $38K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 4.2%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.3M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
80 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1964
- Franchising Since
- 1965
- Headquarters
- GA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Arby's
This Arby's page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Arby's.
National footprint registry read for Arby's
Signature read: 3,511 locations · Item 7 low $342K
Arby's, a Inspire Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1965 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1964 , currently with 3,511 total locations (3,511 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in GA. The listed total initial investment is $342K to $2.3M, with separate listed low and high values. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $38K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty payments here are set at 4.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 4.2% advertising-fund field, for a 8.2% arithmetic total. Arby's has a recorded Item 19 financial-performance field; Item 19 disclosure is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.3M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $52K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Network momentum is currently positive: Arby's added units at a 0.6% net rate year-over-year (100 openings, 80 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Arby's: Understanding FDDs , Arby's lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Arby's's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Arby's , both outside HQ state GA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($342K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (3,511 here).
What to do with this
Arby's at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Arby's scores 64/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $342K – $2.3M entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #75 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Chick-fil-A sits at a comparable investment level ($343K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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