Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ PA
Auntie Anne's Franchise
A Focus Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1989. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Auntie Anne's, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $191K – $464K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 1,900
- Total locations · Large network
- $600K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry auntie-anne-s Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's needs $191K–$464K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $191K
- HI $464K
- FEE $30K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 1,900
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #110/223
- UNT# #59/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Steak 'n Shake ($188K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Auntie Anne'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 Auntie Anne's's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.0% net unit growth (YoY) 21/100 · 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 Auntie Anne's's investment ranks nationally
Auntie Anne's's listed Item 7 low of $191K 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.
Auntie Anne's vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$191,000 Lower than most lower than 50% 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
- $30K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 1.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $600K
- 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
- 1988
- Franchising Since
- 1989
- Headquarters
- PA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Auntie Anne's
This Auntie Anne's page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Auntie Anne's.
National footprint registry read for Auntie Anne's
Signature read: 1,900 locations · Item 7 low $191K
Auntie Anne's, a Focus Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1989 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1988 , currently with 1,900 total locations (1,900 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in PA. The listed total initial investment is $191K to $464K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $30K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Royalty payments here are set at 6.0% of gross sales with a separate 1.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 7.0%. Auntie Anne'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 $600K; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $36K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
The reported total is a net measure, not a complete account of individual unit changes.
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Related reading for Auntie Anne's: Understanding FDDs , Auntie Anne'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 Auntie Anne'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 Auntie Anne's , both outside HQ state PA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($191K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,900 here).
What to do with this
Auntie Anne's at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Auntie Anne's scores 61/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $191K – $464K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #110 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Steak 'n Shake sits at a comparable investment level ($188K) 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.
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