Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ GA
Hooters Franchise
A Hooters of America brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1987. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Hooters, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $1.7M – $4.3M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 340
- Total locations · Small network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry hooters Hooters
Hooters needs $1.7M–$4.3M to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $1.7M
- HI $4.3M
- FEE $75K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 340
- I19 Silent
- INV# #17/223
- UNT# #167/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: IHOP ($1.7M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Hooters (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 Hooters's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -2.9% net unit growth (YoY) 0/100 · 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 Hooters's investment ranks nationally
Hooters's listed Item 7 low of $1.7M 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.
Hooters vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$1,700,000 Higher than most higher than 92% 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
- $75K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 1.0%
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
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- casual dining
- Founded
- 1983
- Franchising Since
- 1987
- Headquarters
- GA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Hooters
This Hooters page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Hooters.
Small-network FDD fields for Hooters
Signature read: 340 locations · Item 7 low $1.7M
Hooters, a Hooters of America franchise, has been franchising since 1987 - 4 years after the concept was founded in 1983 , currently with 340 total locations (280 franchised, 60 company-owned; 82% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in GA. The listed total initial investment is $1.7M to $4.3M, with separate listed low and high values. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $75K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
The brand charges 5.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties with a separate 1.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 6.0%. Hooters has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry. Item 19 disclosure is optional under the FTC Franchise Rule.
Hooters's footprint shrank over the past year, down 2.9% with 20 closures on the record. The percentage does not identify why the count changed or what it means for a specific location.
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Related reading for Hooters: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Hooters 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 Hooters's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Hooters , both outside HQ state GA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($1.7M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (340 here).
What to do with this
Hooters at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Hooters scores 0/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $1.7M – $4.3M entry cost runs above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #17 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- IHOP sits at a comparable investment level ($1.7M) 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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