Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ MA
Baskin-Robbins Franchise
A Inspire Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1948. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Baskin-Robbins, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $94K – $402K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 5.9%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 7,500
- Total locations · Large network
- $400K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry baskin-robbins Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins needs $94K–$402K to open and charges a 5.9% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $94K
- HI $402K
- FEE $25K
- ROY 5.9%
- UNT 7,500
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #159/223
- UNT# #19/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Quiznos ($93K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Baskin-Robbins (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 Baskin-Robbins's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -1.3% net unit growth (YoY) 6/100 · 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 Baskin-Robbins's investment ranks nationally
Baskin-Robbins's listed Item 7 low of $94K 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.
Baskin-Robbins vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$94,000 Lower than most lower than 72% 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
- $25K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 5.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $400K
- 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
200 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- desserts
- Founded
- 1945
- Franchising Since
- 1948
- Headquarters
- MA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Baskin-Robbins
This Baskin-Robbins page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Baskin-Robbins.
National footprint registry read for Baskin-Robbins
Signature read: 7,500 locations · Item 7 low $94K
Baskin-Robbins, a Inspire Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1948 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 1945 , currently with 7,500 total locations (7,500 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in MA. The listed total initial investment is $94K to $402K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $25K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
The brand charges 5.9% of gross sales in ongoing royalties, plus a 5.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 10.9%. Baskin-Robbins has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $400K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $24K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Baskin-Robbins's footprint shrank over the past year, down 1.3% with 200 closures on the record. The percentage does not identify why the count changed or what it means for a specific location.
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Related reading for Baskin-Robbins: Understanding FDDs , Baskin-Robbins 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 Baskin-Robbins's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Baskin-Robbins , both outside HQ state MA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($94K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (7,500 here).
What to do with this
Baskin-Robbins at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Baskin-Robbins scores 53/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $94K – $402K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #159 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Quiznos sits at a comparable investment level ($93K) 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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