Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ AR
Slim Chickens Franchise
A Slim Chickens LLC brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 2015. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Slim Chickens, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $773K – $2.0M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 220
- Total locations · Small network
- $2.0M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry slim-chickens Slim Chickens
Slim Chickens needs $773K–$2.0M to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost in line with the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $773K
- HI $2.0M
- FEE $45K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 220
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #39/223
- UNT# #197/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: McAlister's Deli ($750K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Slim Chickens (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 Slim Chickens's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 11.4% 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 Slim Chickens's investment ranks nationally
Slim Chickens's listed Item 7 low of $773K 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.
Slim Chickens vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$773,000 Higher than most higher than 82% 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
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $2.0M
- 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
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- fast casual restaurant
- Founded
- 2003
- Franchising Since
- 2015
- Headquarters
- AR
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Slim Chickens
This Slim Chickens page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Slim Chickens.
Small-network FDD fields for Slim Chickens
Signature read: 220 locations · Item 7 low $773K
Slim Chickens, a Slim Chickens LLC franchise, has been franchising since 2015 - 12 years after the concept was founded in 2003 , currently with 220 total locations (210 franchised, 10 company-owned; 95% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in AR. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $773K to $2.0M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $45K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 2.0% advertising-fund field, for a 7.0% arithmetic total. Slim Chickens 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 $2.0M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $100K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Slim Chickens posted 11.4% net growth year-over-year (30 openings, 5 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 Slim Chickens: Understanding FDDs , Slim Chickens 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 Slim Chickens's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Slim Chickens , both outside HQ state AR : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($773K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (220 here).
What to do with this
Slim Chickens at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Slim Chickens scores 100/100 (A) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $773K – $2.0M entry cost runs in line with the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #39 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- McAlister's Deli sits at a comparable investment level ($750K) 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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