Automotive · registry year 2024 · HQ MI
Tommy's Express Car Wash Franchise
A Tommy's Express LLC brand operating in the automotive sector, franchising since 2016. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Tommy's Express Car Wash, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $5.0M – $8.0M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 250
- Total locations · Small network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry tommy-s-express-car-wash Tommy's Express Car Wash
Tommy's Express Car Wash needs $5.0M–$8.0M to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical automotive franchise.
- LO $5.0M
- HI $8.0M
- FEE $50K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 250
- I19 Silent
- INV# #3/223
- UNT# #194/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: CARSTAR ($500K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Tommy's Express Car Wash (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 Tommy's Express Car Wash's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 14.0% net unit growth (YoY) 100/100 · A
- 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 Tommy's Express Car Wash's investment ranks nationally
Tommy's Express Car Wash's listed Item 7 low of $5.0M 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.
Tommy's Express Car Wash vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$5,000,000 Higher than most higher than 99% 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
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
5 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Automotive
- Subsector
- car wash
- Founded
- 1969
- Franchising Since
- 2016
- Headquarters
- MI
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Tommy's Express Car Wash
This Tommy's Express Car Wash page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Tommy's Express Car Wash.
Small-network FDD fields for Tommy's Express Car Wash
Signature read: 250 locations · Item 7 low $5.0M
Tommy's Express Car Wash, a Tommy's Express LLC franchise, has been franchising since 2016 - 47 years after the concept was founded in 1969 , currently with 250 total locations (250 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the automotive sector, headquartered in MI. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $5.0M to $8.0M, 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.
The brand charges 6.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties. Tommy's Express Car Wash has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Tommy's Express Car Wash posted 14.0% net growth year-over-year (40 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 Tommy's Express Car Wash: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Tommy's Express Car Wash 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 Tommy's Express Car Wash's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Tommy's Express Car Wash , both outside HQ state MI : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($5.0M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (250 here).
What to do with this
Tommy's Express Car Wash at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Tommy's Express Car Wash scores 50/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $5.0M – $8.0M entry cost runs above the typical automotive franchise.
- Ranks #3 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- CARSTAR sits at a comparable investment level ($500K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
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