Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ KY
KFC Franchise
A Yum! Brands brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1952. According to the 2024 FDD filing for KFC, 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
- 26,934
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.4M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
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KFC 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 $45K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 26,934
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #21/223
- UNT# #5/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Jack in the Box ($1.4M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for KFC (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 KFC's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -0.4% net unit growth (YoY) 16/100 · 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 KFC's investment ranks nationally
KFC'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.
KFC vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$1,442,000 Higher than most higher than 90% 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
- $45K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 5.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.4M
- 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
700 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1930
- Franchising Since
- 1952
- Headquarters
- KY
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · KFC
This KFC page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for KFC.
Large-network capital outlay for KFC
Signature read: 26,934 locations · Item 7 low $1.4M
KFC, a Yum! Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1952 - 22 years after the concept was founded in 1930 , currently with 26,934 total locations (26,934 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in KY. The registry records a total initial investment between $1.4M and $3.0M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $45K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
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%. The registry records an Item 19 field for KFC. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.4M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $70K as an arithmetic illustration only. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Network momentum is currently negative: KFC contracted by 0.4% year-over-year with 700 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 KFC: Understanding FDDs , KFC 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 KFC's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for KFC , both outside HQ state KY : 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 (26,934 here).
What to do with this
KFC at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- KFC scores 58/100 (F) 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 #21 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Jack in the Box 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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