travel-hospitality · registry year 2024 · HQ NJ
La Quinta Franchise
A Wyndham Hotels & Resorts brand operating in the travel-hospitality sector, franchising since 2001. According to the 2024 FDD filing for La Quinta, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $4.1M – $9.6M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 1,100
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $2.8M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry la-quinta La Quinta
La Quinta needs $4.1M–$9.6M to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost in line with the typical travel-hospitality franchise.
- LO $4.1M
- HI $9.6M
- FEE $35K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 1,100
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #4/223
- UNT# #88/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Days Inn ($2.2M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for La Quinta (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 La Quinta's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.9% net unit growth (YoY) 31/100 · 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 La Quinta's investment ranks nationally
La Quinta's listed Item 7 low of $4.1M 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.
La Quinta vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$4,100,000 Higher than most higher than 98% 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
- 4.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $2.8M
- 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
30 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- travel-hospitality
- Subsector
- mid scale hotel
- Founded
- 1968
- Franchising Since
- 2001
- Headquarters
- NJ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · La Quinta
This La Quinta page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for La Quinta.
Higher-band investment fields for La Quinta
Signature read: 1,100 locations · Item 7 low $4.1M
La Quinta, a Wyndham Hotels & Resorts franchise, has been franchising since 2001 - 33 years after the concept was founded in 1968 , currently with 1,100 total locations (1,100 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the travel-hospitality sector, headquartered in NJ. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $4.1M to $9.6M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. A franchise-fee field of $35K 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; the registry also records a 4.0% advertising-fund field, for a 9.0% arithmetic total. La Quinta 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 $2.8M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $140K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Network momentum is currently positive: La Quinta added units at a 0.9% net rate year-over-year (40 openings, 30 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 La Quinta: Understanding FDDs , La Quinta 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 La Quinta's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for La Quinta , 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 ($4.1M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,100 here).
What to do with this
La Quinta at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- La Quinta scores 66/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $4.1M – $9.6M entry cost runs in line with the typical travel-hospitality franchise.
- Ranks #4 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Days Inn sits at a comparable investment level ($2.2M) 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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