Automotive · registry year 2024 · HQ CO
Grease Monkey Franchise
A Grease Monkey Franchising brand operating in the automotive sector, franchising since 1978. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Grease Monkey, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $300K – $650K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 320
- Total locations · Small network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry grease-monkey Grease Monkey
Grease Monkey needs $300K–$650K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical automotive franchise.
- LO $300K
- HI $650K
- FEE $35K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 320
- I19 Silent
- INV# #81/223
- UNT# #172/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Maaco ($344K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Grease Monkey (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 Grease Monkey's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.0% net unit growth (YoY) 21/100 · 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 Grease Monkey's investment ranks nationally
Grease Monkey's listed Item 7 low of $300K 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.
Grease Monkey vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$300,000 Around the middle lower than 37% 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
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
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Automotive
- Subsector
- oil change
- Founded
- 1978
- Franchising Since
- 1978
- Headquarters
- CO
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Grease Monkey
This Grease Monkey page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Grease Monkey.
Small-network FDD fields for Grease Monkey
Signature read: 320 locations · Item 7 low $300K
Grease Monkey, a Grease Monkey Franchising franchise, has been franchising since 1978 , currently with 320 total locations (320 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the automotive sector, headquartered in CO. The listed total initial investment is $300K to $650K, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $35K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 6.0% of gross sales. No Item 19 financial-performance field is recorded for Grease Monkey. This registry does not infer a financial outcome from that absence.
A flat net count is reported here without a causal interpretation in the registry.
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Related reading for Grease Monkey: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Grease Monkey 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 Grease Monkey's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Grease Monkey , both outside HQ state CO : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($300K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (320 here).
What to do with this
Grease Monkey at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Grease Monkey scores 11/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $300K – $650K entry cost runs below the typical automotive franchise.
- Ranks #81 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Maaco sits at a comparable investment level ($344K) 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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