PlainFranchise data reference

Franchise data, made inspectable

PlainFranchise currently compiles 223 franchise-brand records across 14 sectors from publicly available Franchise Disclosure Documents. This page explains what the dataset covers, what it cannot establish, and how to cite or inspect the current summary.

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223

Franchise brands in the current registry

14

Business sectors represented

108

Brands with reported Item 19 revenue data

647,052

Reported total outlets across the registry

Where the registry has the most franchise brands

The eight sectors with the most records in the current PlainFranchise registry

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What this shows The current registry spans 14 sectors. This chart counts records by sector; it does not measure market demand, profitability, or the quality of a franchise opportunity.

Source PlainFranchise FDD compilation As of 2026-07-05

How often the registry includes reported Item 19 revenue

A count of current records with reported revenue, not a profitability ranking

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What this shows Of 223 current franchise-brand records, 108 include reported Item 19 revenue. A missing revenue disclosure is not evidence that a franchise performs poorly, and a reported gross-revenue figure is not profit or a local forecast.

Source PlainFranchise FDD compilation As of 2026-07-05
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What the data includes

FDD Items 5–7

Initial franchise fee, recurring royalty and advertising contributions, plus the franchisor's disclosed startup-investment range.

FDD Item 19

Revenue or other financial-performance representations only when a franchisor chose to disclose them. Gross revenue is not franchisee profit.

FDD Item 20

System-wide unit counts, openings, closures, and reported net growth, used as system context rather than a forecast for a local buyer.

Current vintage

The current registry contains FDD years 2024; the data vintage for this rendered page is .

Limits readers should keep in view

FDDs are franchisor disclosures, not independent business audits. They are filed on different annual schedules, and a field that is absent in an FDD is left absent here rather than estimated.

No dataset on this page establishes local demand, operating costs, financing terms, or a franchisee's expected return. Use the underlying filing and qualified legal and accounting advice for an investment decision.

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The CSV is a current summary of the fields used across PlainFranchise comparisons. It is provided to make the dataset easier to inspect and cite; always retain the original FDD as the source for any material decision.

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Compiled from official source data by Plainfranchise Editorial