Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Jack in the Box Franchise
A Jack in the Box Inc brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1960. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Jack in the Box, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $1.4M – $3.0M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 2,200
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.8M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry jack-in-the-box Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box needs $1.4M–$3.0M to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $1.4M
- HI $3.0M
- FEE $50K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 2,200
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #20/223
- UNT# #51/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: KFC ($1.4M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Jack in the Box (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 Jack in the Box's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.5% net unit growth (YoY) 26/100 · 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 Jack in the Box's investment ranks nationally
Jack in the Box's listed Item 7 low of $1.4M 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.
Jack in the Box vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$1,450,000 Higher than most higher than 91% 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
- $50K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 5.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.8M
- 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
40 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1951
- Franchising Since
- 1960
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Jack in the Box
This Jack in the Box page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Jack in the Box.
Large-network capital outlay for Jack in the Box
Signature read: 2,200 locations · Item 7 low $1.4M
Jack in the Box, a Jack in the Box Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1960 - 9 years after the concept was founded in 1951 , currently with 2,200 total locations (2,150 franchised, 50 company-owned; 98% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in TX. The registry records a total initial investment between $1.4M and $3.0M, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $50K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.0% of gross sales, plus a 5.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 10.0%. Jack in the Box has a recorded Item 19 financial-performance field; Item 19 disclosure is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.8M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $90K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Jack in the Box posted 0.5% net growth year-over-year (50 openings, 40 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
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Related reading for Jack in the Box: Understanding FDDs , Jack in the Box 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 Jack in the Box's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Jack in the Box , 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 ($1.4M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,200 here).
What to do with this
Jack in the Box at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Jack in the Box scores 63/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $1.4M – $3.0M entry cost runs above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #20 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- KFC sits at a comparable investment level ($1.4M) 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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