Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ MA
Dunkin' Franchise
A Inspire Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1955. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Dunkin', this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $229K – $1.7M
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 5.9%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 9,579
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry dunkin Dunkin'
Dunkin' needs $229K–$1.7M to open and charges a 5.9% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $229K
- HI $1.7M
- FEE $40K
- ROY 5.9%
- UNT 9,579
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #98/223
- UNT# #13/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Crumbl Cookies ($230K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Dunkin' (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 Dunkin''s franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 1.6% net unit growth (YoY) 38/100 · 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 Dunkin''s investment ranks nationally
Dunkin''s listed Item 7 low of $229K 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.
Dunkin' vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$229,000 Around the middle lower than 44% 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
- $40K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 5.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.2M
- 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
200 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- coffee tea
- Founded
- 1950
- Franchising Since
- 1955
- Headquarters
- MA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Dunkin'
This Dunkin' page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Dunkin'.
National footprint registry read for Dunkin'
Signature read: 9,579 locations · Item 7 low $229K
Dunkin', a Inspire Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1955 - 5 years after the concept was founded in 1950 , currently with 9,579 total locations (9,579 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in MA. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $229K to $1.7M, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $40K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.9% of gross sales with a separate 5.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 10.9%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Dunkin'. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.2M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $71K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Network momentum is currently positive: Dunkin' added units at a 1.6% net rate year-over-year (350 openings, 200 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 Dunkin': Understanding FDDs , Dunkin' 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 Dunkin''s Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Dunkin' , both outside HQ state MA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($229K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (9,579 here).
What to do with this
Dunkin' at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Dunkin' scores 69/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $229K – $1.7M entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #98 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Crumbl Cookies sits at a comparable investment level ($230K) 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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