Health & Fitness · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Gold's Gym Franchise
A RSG Group brand operating in the health & fitness sector, franchising since 1980. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Gold's Gym, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $2.0M – $6.0M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 600
- Total locations · Mid-size network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry gold-s-gym Gold's Gym
Gold's Gym needs $2.0M–$6.0M to open - an entry cost above the typical health & fitness franchise.
- LO $2.0M
- HI $6.0M
- FEE $30K
- UNT 600
- I19 Silent
- INV# #11/223
- UNT# #130/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Crunch Fitness ($1.2M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Gold's Gym (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 Gold's Gym's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -1.7% net unit growth (YoY) 2/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
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 Gold's Gym's investment ranks nationally
Gold's Gym's listed Item 7 low of $2.0M 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.
Gold's Gym vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$2,000,000 Higher than most higher than 94% 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
- $30K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Health & Fitness
- Subsector
- gym
- Founded
- 1965
- Franchising Since
- 1980
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Gold's Gym
This Gold's Gym page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Gold's Gym.
Higher-band investment fields for Gold's Gym
Signature read: 600 locations · Item 7 low $2.0M
Gold's Gym, a RSG Group franchise, has been franchising since 1980 - 15 years after the concept was founded in 1965 , currently with 600 total locations (400 franchised, 200 company-owned; 67% of the recorded total is franchised) in the health & fitness sector, headquartered in TX. The listed total initial investment is $2.0M to $6.0M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $30K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Ongoing royalty and advertising-fund rates for this brand are not captured in the registry summary. Gold's Gym has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry. Item 19 disclosure is optional under the FTC Franchise Rule.
Network momentum is currently negative: Gold's Gym contracted by 1.7% year-over-year with 20 closures on the record. The registry does not attribute the change to a cause or establish an operating or financial outcome.
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Related reading for Gold's Gym: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Gold's Gym has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
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 Gold's Gym's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Gold's Gym , 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 ($2.0M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (600 here).
What to do with this
Gold's Gym at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Gold's Gym scores 1/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $2.0M – $6.0M entry cost runs above the typical health & fitness franchise.
- Ranks #11 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Crunch Fitness sits at a comparable investment level ($1.2M) 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.
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