Coffee & Cafe Franchise Opportunities
Anyone can list the franchise fee — a number without context. Every coffee and café brand here shows what each figure is attached to: the investment range, unit count, filing years, and whether it discloses an Item 19. Coffee and café spans coffee, tea, smoothie, juice, and bakery-café concepts. Where a brand filed in both 2025 and 2026, you can see exactly what changed.
§ Drawn from 37 coffee & cafe FDDs on file · latest filings
What 37 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 37 disclosed ranges land. Median $627,000.
The $500K–1M band holds the median filing. The middle half of these brands sit between $426,000 and $1,000,000.
76%
disclose an Item 19
28 of 37 brands on file, against 73% across every brand in the database.
44
median U.S. unit count
Across the 35 brands that disclose an outlet count in their latest filing.
6%
median royalty
Across the 35 brands that state a single rate; the rest tie royalties to sales tiers or charge none.
+1.4%
median outlet change, 2025 to 2026
Across the 13 brands that filed in both years: 7 grew, 3 shrank.
Figures are drawn straight from each brand’s latest FDD. See our franchise industry reports for the trends behind these numbers.
Coffee & Cafe Franchise Brands
Showing 7 of 37 coffee & cafe franchises with a published breakdown. Search all coffee & cafe 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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