Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ GA
Cinnabon Franchise
A Focus Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1986. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Cinnabon, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $177K – $378K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 1,700
- Total locations · Large network
- $700K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry cinnabon Cinnabon
Cinnabon needs $177K–$378K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $177K
- HI $378K
- FEE $42K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 1,700
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #117/223
- UNT# #67/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Firehouse Subs ($175K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Cinnabon (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 Cinnabon's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -0.6% net unit growth (YoY) 14/100 · 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 Cinnabon's investment ranks nationally
Cinnabon's listed Item 7 low of $177K 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.
Cinnabon vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$177,000 Lower than most lower than 53% 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
- $42K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 4.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $700K
- 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
60 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1985
- Franchising Since
- 1986
- Headquarters
- GA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Cinnabon
This Cinnabon page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Cinnabon.
National footprint registry read for Cinnabon
Signature read: 1,700 locations · Item 7 low $177K
Cinnabon, a Focus Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1986 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1985 , currently with 1,700 total locations (1,700 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 $177K to $378K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $42K 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 4.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 10.0%. Cinnabon 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 $700K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $42K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Network momentum is currently negative: Cinnabon contracted by 0.6% year-over-year with 60 closures on the record. This is a network-count observation only; the registry does not record reasons for openings or closures.
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Related reading for Cinnabon: Understanding FDDs , Cinnabon 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 Cinnabon's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Cinnabon , 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 ($177K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,700 here).
What to do with this
Cinnabon at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Cinnabon scores 57/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $177K – $378K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #117 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Firehouse Subs sits at a comparable investment level ($175K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
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