Food & Beverage · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Wingstop Franchise
A Wingstop Inc brand operating in the food & beverage sector, franchising since 1997. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Wingstop, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $336K – $794K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 2,128
- Total locations · Large network
- $1.6M
- Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry wingstop Wingstop
Wingstop needs $336K–$794K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- LO $336K
- HI $794K
- FEE $20K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 2,128
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #77/223
- UNT# #54/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Wendy's ($336K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Wingstop (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 Wingstop's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 9.4% net unit growth (YoY) 100/100 · A
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
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 Wingstop's investment ranks nationally
Wingstop's listed Item 7 low of $336K 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.
Wingstop vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$336,000 Around the middle lower than 35% 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
- $20K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.6M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
50 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Food & Beverage
- Subsector
- quick service restaurant
- Founded
- 1994
- Franchising Since
- 1997
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Wingstop
This Wingstop page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Wingstop.
National footprint registry read for Wingstop
Signature read: 2,128 locations · Item 7 low $336K
Wingstop, a Wingstop Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1997 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 1994 , currently with 2,128 total locations (2,128 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the food & beverage sector, headquartered in TX. The listed total initial investment is $336K to $794K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $20K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 8.0%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Wingstop. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.6M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $96K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Network momentum is currently positive: Wingstop added units at a 9.4% net rate year-over-year (250 openings, 50 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for Wingstop: Understanding FDDs , Wingstop lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
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 Wingstop's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Wingstop , 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 ($336K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (2,128 here).
What to do with this
Wingstop at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Wingstop scores 100/100 (A) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $336K – $794K entry cost runs below the typical food & beverage franchise.
- Ranks #77 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Wendy's sits at a comparable investment level ($336K) 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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