Pet Services · registry year 2024 · HQ AZ
Dogtopia Franchise
A Dogtopia Franchising brand operating in the pet services sector, franchising since 2004. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Dogtopia, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $700K – $1.5M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 7.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 250
- Total locations · Small network
- $1.1M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry dogtopia Dogtopia
Dogtopia needs $700K–$1.5M to open and charges a 7.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical pet services franchise.
- LO $700K
- HI $1.5M
- FEE $50K
- ROY 7.0%
- UNT 250
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #43/223
- UNT# #193/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Camp Bow Wow ($877K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Dogtopia (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 Dogtopia's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 8.0% net unit growth (YoY) 100/100 · A
- 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 Dogtopia's investment ranks nationally
Dogtopia's listed Item 7 low of $700K 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.
Dogtopia vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$700,000 Higher than most higher than 79% 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
- 2.0%
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
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Pet Services
- Subsector
- boarding
- Founded
- 2002
- Franchising Since
- 2004
- Headquarters
- AZ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Dogtopia
This Dogtopia page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Dogtopia.
Small-network FDD fields for Dogtopia
Signature read: 250 locations · Item 7 low $700K
Dogtopia, a Dogtopia Franchising franchise, has been franchising since 2004 - 2 years after the concept was founded in 2002 , currently with 250 total locations (250 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the pet services sector, headquartered in AZ. The registry records a total initial investment between $700K and $1.5M, 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.
Ongoing royalties run 7.0% of gross sales, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 9.0%. Dogtopia 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 $77K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Dogtopia's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 8.0% net rate over the past year (30 openings, 10 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Dogtopia: Understanding FDDs , Dogtopia 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 Dogtopia's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Dogtopia , both outside HQ state AZ : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($700K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (250 here).
What to do with this
Dogtopia at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Dogtopia scores 100/100 (A) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $700K – $1.5M entry cost runs above the typical pet services franchise.
- Ranks #43 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Camp Bow Wow sits at a comparable investment level ($877K) 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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