Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ CA
Jamba Franchise
A Focus Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1993. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Jamba, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $238K – $484K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 850
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $600K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
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Jamba needs $238K–$484K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $238K
- HI $484K
- FEE $25K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 850
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #95/223
- UNT# #105/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Crumbl Cookies ($230K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Jamba (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 Jamba's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -2.4% net unit growth (YoY) 0/100 · 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 Jamba's investment ranks nationally
Jamba's listed Item 7 low of $238K 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.
Jamba vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$238,000 Around the middle lower than 43% 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
- $25K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 3.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $600K
- 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
50 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- fast casual restaurant
- Founded
- 1990
- Franchising Since
- 1993
- Headquarters
- CA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Jamba
This Jamba page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Jamba.
What the Jamba FDD reveals
Signature read: 850 locations · Item 7 low $238K
Jamba, a Focus Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1993 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 1990 , currently with 850 total locations (800 franchised, 50 company-owned; 94% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in CA. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $238K to $484K, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $25K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 3.0% advertising-fund field, for a 9.0% arithmetic total. Jamba 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 $600K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $36K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Jamba's footprint shrank over the past year, down 2.4% with 50 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 Jamba: Understanding FDDs , Jamba 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 Jamba's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Jamba , both outside HQ state CA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($238K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (850 here).
What to do with this
Jamba at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Jamba scores 50/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $238K – $484K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #95 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Crumbl Cookies sits at a comparable investment level ($230K) 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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