Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ NJ
Jersey Mike's Franchise
A Jersey Mike's Franchise Systems brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1987. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Jersey Mike's, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $180K – $800K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.5%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 2,800
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry jersey-mike-s Jersey Mike's
Jersey Mike's needs $180K–$800K to open and charges a 6.5% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $180K
- HI $800K
- FEE $19K
- ROY 6.5%
- UNT 2,800
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #115/223
- UNT# #41/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Cinnabon ($177K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Jersey Mike's (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 Jersey Mike's's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 7.1% net unit growth (YoY) 100/100 · A
- 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 Jersey Mike's's investment ranks nationally
Jersey Mike's's listed Item 7 low of $180K 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.
Jersey Mike's vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$180,000 Lower than most lower than 52% 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
- $19K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.2M
- 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
100 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1956
- Franchising Since
- 1987
- Headquarters
- NJ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Jersey Mike's
This Jersey Mike's page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Jersey Mike's.
National footprint registry read for Jersey Mike's
Signature read: 2,800 locations · Item 7 low $180K
Jersey Mike's, a Jersey Mike's Franchise Systems franchise, has been franchising since 1987 - 31 years after the concept was founded in 1956 , currently with 2,800 total locations (2,800 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in NJ. The registry records a total initial investment between $180K and $800K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $19K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Ongoing royalties run 6.5% of gross sales with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 8.5%. Jersey Mike's has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.2M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $78K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Jersey Mike's posted 7.1% net growth year-over-year (300 openings, 100 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for Jersey Mike's: Understanding FDDs , Jersey Mike's 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 Jersey Mike's's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Jersey Mike's , both outside HQ state NJ : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($180K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,800 here).
What to do with this
Jersey Mike's at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Jersey Mike's scores 100/100 (A) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $180K – $800K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #115 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Cinnabon sits at a comparable investment level ($177K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
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