Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Glass Doctor Franchise
A Neighborly brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1977. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Glass Doctor, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $165K – $475K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 580
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $700K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry glass-doctor Glass Doctor
Glass Doctor needs $165K–$475K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical home services franchise.
- LO $165K
- HI $475K
- FEE $45K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 580
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #120/223
- UNT# #134/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Two Men and a Truck ($185K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Glass Doctor (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 Glass Doctor's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.9% net unit growth (YoY) 30/100 · 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 Glass Doctor's investment ranks nationally
Glass Doctor's listed Item 7 low of $165K 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.
Glass Doctor vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$165,000 Lower than most lower than 55% 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
- 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
15 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- glass services
- Founded
- 1962
- Franchising Since
- 1977
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Glass Doctor
This Glass Doctor page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Glass Doctor.
What the Glass Doctor FDD reveals
Signature read: 580 locations · Item 7 low $165K
Glass Doctor, a Neighborly franchise, has been franchising since 1977 - 15 years after the concept was founded in 1962 , currently with 580 total locations (580 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in TX. The listed total initial investment is $165K to $475K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $45K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Ongoing royalties run 5.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 2.0% advertising-fund field, for a 7.0% arithmetic total. The registry records an Item 19 field for Glass Doctor. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $700K; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $35K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Glass Doctor's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 0.9% net rate over the past year (20 openings, 15 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Glass Doctor: Understanding FDDs , Glass Doctor 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 Glass Doctor's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Glass Doctor , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($165K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (580 here).
What to do with this
Glass Doctor at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Glass Doctor scores 65/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $165K – $475K entry cost runs above the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #120 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Two Men and a Truck sits at a comparable investment level ($185K) 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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