Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
TGI Fridays Franchise
A Hostmore / TriArtisan brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1971. According to the 2024 FDD filing for TGI Fridays, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $2.0M – $5.0M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 4.0%
- Royalty rate · Below-average royalty
- 650
- Total locations · Mid-size network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry tgi-fridays TGI Fridays
TGI Fridays needs $2.0M–$5.0M to open and charges a 4.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $2.0M
- HI $5.0M
- FEE $50K
- ROY 4.0%
- UNT 650
- I19 Silent
- INV# #13/223
- UNT# #127/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Applebee's ($2.0M)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for TGI Fridays (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 TGI Fridays's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum -3.1% net unit growth (YoY) 0/100 · 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 TGI Fridays's investment ranks nationally
TGI Fridays's listed Item 7 low of $2.0M 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.
TGI Fridays vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$2,000,000 Higher than most higher than 94% 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)
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
30 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- casual dining
- Founded
- 1965
- Franchising Since
- 1971
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · TGI Fridays
This TGI Fridays page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for TGI Fridays.
Higher-band investment fields for TGI Fridays
Signature read: 650 locations · Item 7 low $2.0M
TGI Fridays, a Hostmore / TriArtisan franchise, has been franchising since 1971 - 6 years after the concept was founded in 1965 , currently with 650 total locations (600 franchised, 50 company-owned; 92% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in TX. The listed total initial investment is $2.0M to $5.0M, 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.
Royalty payments here are set at 4.0% of gross sales, plus a 4.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 8.0%. TGI Fridays has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
Unit count is trending down for TGI Fridays: a 3.1% net contraction year-over-year with 30 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 TGI Fridays: How to Evaluate a Franchise , TGI Fridays 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 TGI Fridays's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for TGI Fridays , 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 ($2.0M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (650 here).
What to do with this
TGI Fridays at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- TGI Fridays scores 0/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $2.0M – $5.0M entry cost runs above the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #13 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Applebee's sits at a comparable investment level ($2.0M) 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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