Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ FL
Burger King Franchise
A Restaurant Brands Intl brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1961. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Burger King, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $1.8M – $4.7M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 4.5%
- Royalty rate · Below-average royalty
- 18,765
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.6M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry burger-king Burger King
Burger King needs $1.8M–$4.7M to open and charges a 4.5% royalty - an entry cost above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $1.8M
- HI $4.7M
- FEE $50K
- ROY 4.5%
- UNT 18,765
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #15/223
- UNT# #8/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: IHOP ($1.7M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Burger King (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 Burger King's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -0.5% net unit growth (YoY) 15/100 · 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 Burger King's investment ranks nationally
Burger King's listed Item 7 low of $1.8M 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.
Burger King vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$1,837,080 Higher than most higher than 93% 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
- $50K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 4.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.6M
- 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
600 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1953
- Franchising Since
- 1961
- Headquarters
- FL
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Burger King
This Burger King page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Burger King.
Large-network capital outlay for Burger King
Signature read: 18,765 locations · Item 7 low $1.8M
Burger King, a Restaurant Brands Intl franchise, has been franchising since 1961 - 8 years after the concept was founded in 1953 , currently with 18,765 total locations (18,765 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in FL. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $1.8M to $4.7M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. A franchise-fee field of $50K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
The brand charges 4.5% of gross sales in ongoing royalties; the registry also records a 4.0% advertising-fund field, for a 8.5% arithmetic total. Burger King 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 $1.6M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $72K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Burger King's footprint shrank over the past year, down 0.5% with 600 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 Burger King: Understanding FDDs , Burger King 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 Burger King's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Burger King , both outside HQ state FL : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($1.8M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (18,765 here).
What to do with this
Burger King at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Burger King scores 58/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $1.8M – $4.7M entry cost runs above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #15 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- IHOP sits at a comparable investment level ($1.7M) 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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