Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Nothing Bundt Cakes Franchise
Operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 2006. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Nothing Bundt Cakes, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $440K – $810K
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 7.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 570
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $1.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry nothing-bundt-cakes Nothing Bundt Cakes
Nothing Bundt Cakes needs $440K–$810K to open and charges a 7.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $440K
- HI $810K
- FEE $35K
- ROY 7.0%
- UNT 570
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #65/223
- UNT# #135/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Moe's Southwest Grill ($450K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Nothing Bundt Cakes (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 Nothing Bundt Cakes's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 10.5% 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 Nothing Bundt Cakes's investment ranks nationally
Nothing Bundt Cakes's listed Item 7 low of $440K 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.
Nothing Bundt Cakes vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$440,000 Around the middle lower than 29% 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
- 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
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- desserts
- Founded
- 1997
- Franchising Since
- 2006
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Nothing Bundt Cakes
This Nothing Bundt Cakes page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Nothing Bundt Cakes.
Higher-band investment fields for Nothing Bundt Cakes
Signature read: 570 locations · Item 7 low $440K
Nothing Bundt Cakes has been franchising since 2006 - 9 years after the concept was founded in 1997 , currently with 570 total locations (570 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in TX. The registry records a total initial investment between $440K and $810K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $35K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
The brand charges 7.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 9.0%. Nothing Bundt Cakes 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 $1.2M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $84K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Nothing Bundt Cakes posted 10.5% net growth year-over-year (70 openings, 10 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 Nothing Bundt Cakes: Understanding FDDs , Nothing Bundt Cakes 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 Nothing Bundt Cakes's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Nothing Bundt Cakes , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($440K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (570 here).
What to do with this
Nothing Bundt Cakes at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Nothing Bundt Cakes scores 100/100 (A) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $440K – $810K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #65 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Moe's Southwest Grill sits at a comparable investment level ($450K) 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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