Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ FL
Pinch A Penny Franchise
A Pinch A Penny Inc brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 1976. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Pinch A Penny, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $200K – $450K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 3.0%
- Royalty rate · Below-average royalty
- 280
- Total locations · Small network
- $1.5M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry pinch-a-penny Pinch A Penny
Pinch A Penny needs $200K–$450K to open and charges a 3.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical retail franchise.
- LO $200K
- HI $450K
- FEE $20K
- ROY 3.0%
- UNT 280
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #106/223
- UNT# #186/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Signarama ($195K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Pinch A Penny (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 Pinch A Penny's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 1.8% net unit growth (YoY) 40/100 · 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 Pinch A Penny's investment ranks nationally
Pinch A Penny's listed Item 7 low of $200K 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.
Pinch A Penny vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$200,000 Around the middle lower than 48% 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
- $20K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.5M
- 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
5 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- pool supplies
- Founded
- 1975
- Franchising Since
- 1976
- Headquarters
- FL
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Pinch A Penny
This Pinch A Penny page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Pinch A Penny.
Small-network FDD fields for Pinch A Penny
Signature read: 280 locations · Item 7 low $200K
Pinch A Penny, a Pinch A Penny Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1976 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1975 , currently with 280 total locations (280 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in FL. The registry records a total initial investment between $200K and $450K, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $20K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 3.0% of gross sales. The registry records an Item 19 field for Pinch A Penny. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.5M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $45K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Pinch A Penny posted 1.8% net growth year-over-year (10 openings, 5 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 Pinch A Penny: Understanding FDDs , Pinch A Penny 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 Pinch A Penny's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Pinch A Penny , both outside HQ state FL : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($200K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (280 here).
What to do with this
Pinch A Penny at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Pinch A Penny scores 70/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $200K – $450K entry cost runs below the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #106 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Signarama sits at a comparable investment level ($195K) 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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