Senior Care · registry year 2024 · HQ OH
Comfort Keepers Franchise
A Comfort Keepers Franchising brand operating in the senior care sector, franchising since 1999. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Comfort Keepers, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $92K – $176K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 750
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $1.1M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry comfort-keepers Comfort Keepers
Comfort Keepers needs $92K–$176K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost in line with the typical senior care franchise.
- LO $92K
- HI $176K
- FEE $45K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 750
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #161/223
- UNT# #114/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: BrightStar Care ($102K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Comfort Keepers (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 Comfort Keepers's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 1.3% net unit growth (YoY) 35/100 · 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 Comfort Keepers's investment ranks nationally
Comfort Keepers's listed Item 7 low of $92K 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.
Comfort Keepers vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$92,000 Lower than most lower than 73% 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
- $45K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.1M
- 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
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Senior Care
- Subsector
- in home care
- Founded
- 1998
- Franchising Since
- 1999
- Headquarters
- OH
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Comfort Keepers
This Comfort Keepers page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Comfort Keepers.
Lower-band investment fields for Comfort Keepers
Signature read: 750 locations · Item 7 low $92K
Comfort Keepers, a Comfort Keepers Franchising franchise, has been franchising since 1999 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1998 , currently with 750 total locations (750 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the senior care sector, headquartered in OH. The registry records a total initial investment between $92K and $176K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $45K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.0% of gross sales. Comfort Keepers 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 $1.1M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $55K, 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 positive: Comfort Keepers added units at a 1.3% net rate year-over-year (30 openings, 20 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Comfort Keepers: Understanding FDDs , Comfort Keepers 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 Comfort Keepers's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Comfort Keepers , both outside HQ state OH : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($92K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (750 here).
What to do with this
Comfort Keepers at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Comfort Keepers scores 68/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $92K – $176K entry cost runs in line with the typical senior care franchise.
- Ranks #161 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- BrightStar Care sits at a comparable investment level ($102K) 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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