Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Smoothie King Franchise
A Smoothie King Franchises brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1988. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Smoothie King, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $263K – $1.2M
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 1,400
- Total locations · Large network
- $600K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry smoothie-king Smoothie King
Smoothie King needs $263K–$1.2M to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $263K
- HI $1.2M
- FEE $30K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 1,400
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #87/223
- UNT# #77/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Marco's Pizza ($260K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Smoothie King (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 Smoothie King's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.9% net unit growth (YoY) 52/100 · 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 Smoothie King's investment ranks nationally
Smoothie King's listed Item 7 low of $263K 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.
Smoothie King vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$263,000 Around the middle lower than 39% 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
- $30K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 3.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $600K
- 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
40 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- fast casual restaurant
- Founded
- 1973
- Franchising Since
- 1988
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Smoothie King
This Smoothie King page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Smoothie King.
What the Smoothie King FDD reveals
Signature read: 1,400 locations · Item 7 low $263K
Smoothie King, a Smoothie King Franchises franchise, has been franchising since 1988 - 15 years after the concept was founded in 1973 , currently with 1,400 total locations (1,400 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in TX. The listed total initial investment is $263K to $1.2M, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $30K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales with a separate 3.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 9.0%. Smoothie King 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 $600K; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $36K as an arithmetic illustration only. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Network momentum is currently positive: Smoothie King added units at a 2.9% net rate year-over-year (80 openings, 40 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 Smoothie King: Understanding FDDs , Smoothie King 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 Smoothie King's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Smoothie King , 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 ($263K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,400 here).
What to do with this
Smoothie King at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Smoothie King scores 76/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $263K – $1.2M entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #87 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Marco's Pizza sits at a comparable investment level ($260K) 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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