Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ IL
Jimmy John's Franchise
A Inspire Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1993. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Jimmy John's, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $330K – $641K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 2,700
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.1M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry jimmy-john-s Jimmy John's
Jimmy John's needs $330K–$641K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $330K
- HI $641K
- FEE $35K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 2,700
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #79/223
- UNT# #43/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf ($335K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Jimmy John'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 Jimmy John's's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -0.7% net unit growth (YoY) 12/100 · 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 Jimmy John's's investment ranks nationally
Jimmy John's's listed Item 7 low of $330K 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.
Jimmy John's vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$329,500 Around the middle lower than 36% 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
- $35K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 4.5%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.1M
- 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
- 1983
- Franchising Since
- 1993
- Headquarters
- IL
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Jimmy John's
This Jimmy John's page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Jimmy John's.
National footprint registry read for Jimmy John's
Signature read: 2,700 locations · Item 7 low $330K
Jimmy John's, a Inspire Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1993 - 10 years after the concept was founded in 1983 , currently with 2,700 total locations (2,700 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in IL. The registry records a total initial investment between $330K and $641K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $35K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
The brand charges 6.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties, plus a 4.5% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 10.5%. Jimmy John's 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 $1.1M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $66K, 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.
Unit count is trending down for Jimmy John's: a 0.7% net contraction year-over-year with 100 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 Jimmy John's: Understanding FDDs , Jimmy John'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 Jimmy John'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 Jimmy John's , both outside HQ state IL : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($330K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,700 here).
What to do with this
Jimmy John's at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Jimmy John's scores 56/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $330K – $641K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #79 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf sits at a comparable investment level ($335K) 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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