Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ FL
Popeyes Franchise
A Restaurant Brands Intl brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1976. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Popeyes, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $383K – $3.6M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 3,925
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.8M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
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Popeyes needs $383K–$3.6M to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $383K
- HI $3.6M
- FEE $50K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 3,925
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #69/223
- UNT# #31/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Little Caesars ($380K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Popeyes (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 Popeyes's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 3.8% net unit growth (YoY) 63/100 · D
- 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 Popeyes's investment ranks nationally
Popeyes's listed Item 7 low of $383K 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.
Popeyes vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$383,000 Around the middle lower than 31% 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
- $50K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 4.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.8M
- 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
150 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1972
- Franchising Since
- 1976
- Headquarters
- FL
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Popeyes
This Popeyes page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Popeyes.
Large-network capital outlay for Popeyes
Signature read: 3,925 locations · Item 7 low $383K
Popeyes, a Restaurant Brands Intl franchise, has been franchising since 1976 - 4 years after the concept was founded in 1972 , currently with 3,925 total locations (3,807 franchised, 118 company-owned; 97% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in FL. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $383K to $3.6M, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $50K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Ongoing royalties run 5.0% of gross sales with a separate 4.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 9.0%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Popeyes. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.8M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $90K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Popeyes posted 3.8% net growth year-over-year (300 openings, 150 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 Popeyes: Understanding FDDs , Popeyes 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 Popeyes's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Popeyes , 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 ($383K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (3,925 here).
What to do with this
Popeyes at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Popeyes scores 82/100 (B) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $383K – $3.6M entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #69 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Little Caesars sits at a comparable investment level ($380K) 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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