Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ FL
Firehouse Subs Franchise
A Restaurant Brands Intl brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1995. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Firehouse Subs, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $175K – $600K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 1,280
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $1.1M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry firehouse-subs Firehouse Subs
Firehouse Subs needs $175K–$600K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $175K
- HI $600K
- FEE $20K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 1,280
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #118/223
- UNT# #80/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Cinnabon ($177K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Firehouse Subs (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 Firehouse Subs's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.3% net unit growth (YoY) 47/100 · 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 Firehouse Subs's investment ranks nationally
Firehouse Subs's listed Item 7 low of $175K 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.
Firehouse Subs vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$175,000 Lower than most lower than 54% 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
- $20K
- 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
50 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1994
- Franchising Since
- 1995
- Headquarters
- FL
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Firehouse Subs
This Firehouse Subs page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Firehouse Subs.
What the Firehouse Subs FDD reveals
Signature read: 1,280 locations · Item 7 low $175K
Firehouse Subs, a Restaurant Brands Intl franchise, has been franchising since 1995 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1994 , currently with 1,280 total locations (1,280 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in FL. The registry records a total initial investment between $175K and $600K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $20K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty payments here are set at 6.0% of gross sales, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 8.0%. Firehouse Subs 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 $1.1M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $66K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Network momentum is currently positive: Firehouse Subs added units at a 2.3% net rate year-over-year (80 openings, 50 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
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Related reading for Firehouse Subs: Understanding FDDs , Firehouse Subs 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 Firehouse Subs's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Firehouse Subs , both outside HQ state FL : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($175K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,280 here).
What to do with this
Firehouse Subs at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Firehouse Subs scores 74/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $175K – $600K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #118 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Cinnabon sits at a comparable investment level ($177K) 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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