Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ KS
IHOP Franchise
A Dine Brands Global brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1960. According to the 2024 FDD filing for IHOP, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $1.7M – $4.3M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 4.5%
- Royalty rate · Below-average royalty
- 1,800
- Total locations · Large network
- $2.7M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry ihop IHOP
IHOP needs $1.7M–$4.3M to open and charges a 4.5% royalty - an entry cost above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $1.7M
- HI $4.3M
- FEE $40K
- ROY 4.5%
- UNT 1,800
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #18/223
- UNT# #63/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Buffalo Wild Wings ($1.7M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for IHOP (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 IHOP's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -1.1% net unit growth (YoY) 8/100 · 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 IHOP's investment ranks nationally
IHOP'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.
IHOP 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
- $40K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 3.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $2.7M
- 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
60 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- casual dining
- Founded
- 1958
- Franchising Since
- 1960
- Headquarters
- KS
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · IHOP
This IHOP page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for IHOP.
Large-network capital outlay for IHOP
Signature read: 1,800 locations · Item 7 low $1.7M
IHOP, a Dine Brands Global franchise, has been franchising since 1960 - 2 years after the concept was founded in 1958 , currently with 1,800 total locations (1,800 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in KS. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $1.7M to $4.3M, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $40K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 4.5% of gross sales with a separate 3.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 7.5%. The registry records an Item 19 field for IHOP. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $2.7M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $122K as an arithmetic illustration only. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
IHOP's footprint shrank over the past year, down 1.1% with 60 closures on the record. This is a network-count observation only; the registry does not record reasons for openings or closures.
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Related reading for IHOP: Understanding FDDs , IHOP 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 IHOP's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for IHOP , both outside HQ state KS : 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 (1,800 here).
What to do with this
IHOP at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- IHOP scores 54/100 (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 #18 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Buffalo Wild Wings 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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