Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ CA
Drybar Franchise
A WellBiz Brands brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 2011. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Drybar, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $430K – $740K
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 7.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 155
- Total locations · Small network
- $700K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry drybar Drybar
Drybar needs $430K–$740K to open and charges a 7.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical retail franchise.
- LO $430K
- HI $740K
- FEE $35K
- ROY 7.0%
- UNT 155
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #67/223
- UNT# #215/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Elements Massage ($443K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Drybar (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 Drybar's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 3.2% net unit growth (YoY) 57/100 · 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 Drybar's investment ranks nationally
Drybar's listed Item 7 low of $430K 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.
Drybar vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$430,000 Around the middle lower than 30% 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
- $35K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
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
5 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- beauty
- Founded
- 2008
- Franchising Since
- 2011
- Headquarters
- CA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Drybar
This Drybar page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Drybar.
Small-network FDD fields for Drybar
Signature read: 155 locations · Item 7 low $430K
Drybar, a WellBiz Brands franchise, has been franchising since 2011 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 2008 , currently with 155 total locations (155 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in CA. The listed total initial investment is $430K to $740K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $35K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Ongoing royalties run 7.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 2.0% advertising-fund field, for a 9.0% arithmetic total. Drybar has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $700K; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $49K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Network momentum is currently positive: Drybar added units at a 3.2% net rate year-over-year (10 openings, 5 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for Drybar: Understanding FDDs , Drybar 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 Drybar's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Drybar , both outside HQ state CA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($430K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (155 here).
What to do with this
Drybar at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Drybar scores 79/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $430K – $740K entry cost runs above the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #67 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Elements Massage sits at a comparable investment level ($443K) 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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