travel-hospitality · registry year 2024 · HQ NJ
Super 8 Franchise
A Wyndham Hotels & Resorts brand operating in the travel-hospitality sector, franchising since 1974. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Super 8, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $2.1M – $6.8M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 5.5%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 2,500
- Total locations · Large network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry super-8 Super 8
Super 8 needs $2.1M–$6.8M to open and charges a 5.5% royalty - an entry cost below the typical travel-hospitality franchise.
- LO $2.1M
- HI $6.8M
- FEE $35K
- ROY 5.5%
- UNT 2,500
- I19 Silent
- INV# #8/223
- UNT# #50/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Days Inn ($2.2M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Super 8 (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 Super 8's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -1.2% net unit growth (YoY) 7/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
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 Super 8's investment ranks nationally
Super 8's listed Item 7 low of $2.1M 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.
Super 8 vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$2,100,000 Higher than most higher than 96% 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
- 4.5%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
80 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- travel-hospitality
- Subsector
- budget hotel
- Founded
- 1974
- Franchising Since
- 1974
- Headquarters
- NJ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Super 8
This Super 8 page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Super 8.
Large-network capital outlay for Super 8
Signature read: 2,500 locations · Item 7 low $2.1M
Super 8, a Wyndham Hotels & Resorts franchise, has been franchising since 1974 , currently with 2,500 total locations (2,500 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the travel-hospitality sector, headquartered in NJ. The registry records a total initial investment between $2.1M and $6.8M, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $35K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.5% of gross sales, plus a 4.5% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 10.0%. Super 8 has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
Network momentum is currently negative: Super 8 contracted by 1.2% year-over-year with 80 closures on the record. The registry does not attribute the change to a cause or establish an operating or financial outcome.
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Related reading for Super 8: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Super 8 has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
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 Super 8's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Super 8 , both outside HQ state NJ : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($2.1M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,500 here).
What to do with this
Super 8 at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Super 8 scores 4/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $2.1M – $6.8M entry cost runs below the typical travel-hospitality franchise.
- Ranks #8 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Days Inn sits at a comparable investment level ($2.2M) 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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