Casual Dining Franchise Opportunities
Casual dining franchises offer a full-service restaurant experience with a proven operational model. While investment levels are typically higher than quick-service concepts, successful casual dining franchises generate substantial revenue per unit. This category has evolved significantly, with many brands adapting to off-premise dining trends.
§ Drawn from 33 casual-dining FDDs on file · latest filings
What 33 filings say
The category, read from the documents.
Not estimates — every figure below is aggregated from the disclosure documents themselves.
Total initial investment · distribution
Where 33 disclosed ranges land. Median $1,469,000.
The $1–1.5M band holds the median filing. The middle half of these brands sit between $1,116,000 and $2,337,000.
82%
disclose an Item 19
27 of 33 brands on file, against 74% across every brand in the database.
34
median U.S. unit count
Across the 33 brands that disclose an outlet count in their latest filing.
5%
median royalty
Across the 33 brands that state a single rate; the rest tie royalties to sales tiers or charge none.
+4.2%
median outlet change, 2025 to 2026
Across the 8 brands that filed in both years: 5 grew, 3 shrank.
Figures are drawn straight from each brand’s latest FDD. See our franchise industry reports for the trends behind these numbers.
Casual Dining Franchise Brands
Showing 4 of 33 casual-dining franchises with a published breakdown. Search all casual dining brands →
Past the table
Every number above has a page it comes from.
A Workspace opens the brand’s actual FDD next to its Clearly Report — every figure cited to the Item and page, questions answered from this filing only, and both years side by side when the brand has filed twice.
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