Taco Bell Franchise

Taco Bell, a Yum! Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1965 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 1962 , currently with 8,228 total locations (7,613 franchised, 615 company-owned; 93% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in CA. The registry records a total initial investment between $577K and $3.4M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. A franchise-fee field of $25K 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 with a separate 4.3% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 9.8%. Taco Bell 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 $1.7M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $94K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.

Taco Bell's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 1.6% net rate over the past year (250 openings, 120 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.