Tropical Smoothie Cafe Franchise

Tropical Smoothie Cafe has been franchising since 1997 - 4 years after the concept was founded in 1993 , currently with 1,300 total locations (1,300 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in GA. The registry records a total initial investment between $282K and $581K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $30K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.

Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 3.0% advertising-fund field, for a 9.0% arithmetic total. Tropical Smoothie Cafe has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.4M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $84K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.

The unit count trend here is positive -- Tropical Smoothie Cafe posted 6.2% net growth year-over-year (120 openings, 40 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.