Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ GA
Church's Texas Chicken Franchise
A High Bluff Capital brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1952. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Church's Texas Chicken, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $284K – $1.0M
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 1,500
- Total locations · Large network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry church-s-texas-chicken Church's Texas Chicken
Church's Texas Chicken needs $284K–$1.0M to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $284K
- HI $1.0M
- FEE $15K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 1,500
- I19 Silent
- INV# #83/223
- UNT# #73/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Tropical Smoothie Cafe ($282K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Church's Texas Chicken (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 Church's Texas Chicken's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -0.7% net unit growth (YoY) 13/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
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 Church's Texas Chicken's investment ranks nationally
Church's Texas Chicken's listed Item 7 low of $284K 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.
Church's Texas Chicken vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$284,000 Around the middle lower than 38% 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
- $15K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 5.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
50 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1952
- Franchising Since
- 1952
- Headquarters
- GA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Church's Texas Chicken
This Church's Texas Chicken page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Church's Texas Chicken.
National footprint registry read for Church's Texas Chicken
Signature read: 1,500 locations · Item 7 low $284K
Church's Texas Chicken, a High Bluff Capital franchise, has been franchising since 1952 , currently with 1,500 total locations (1,500 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 $284K to $1.0M, with separate listed low and high values. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $15K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 5.0% advertising-fund field, for a 10.0% arithmetic total. Church's Texas Chicken has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry. Item 19 disclosure is optional under the FTC Franchise Rule.
Church's Texas Chicken's footprint shrank over the past year, down 0.7% with 50 closures on the record. The registry does not attribute the change to a cause or establish an operating or financial outcome.
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Related reading for Church's Texas Chicken: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Church's Texas Chicken has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
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 Church's Texas Chicken's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Church's Texas Chicken , 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 ($284K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,500 here).
What to do with this
Church's Texas Chicken at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Church's Texas Chicken scores 7/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $284K – $1.0M entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #83 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Tropical Smoothie Cafe sits at a comparable investment level ($282K) 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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