Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640452
Baskin-Robbins franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Baskin-Robbins cost $307,400 to $626,700 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $503,430 in the franchisor's 2024-12-30 to 2025-12-28 figures; 12.0% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Baskin-Robbins Franchising LLC. FDD issued 2026-03-26. Fiscal year end 2025-12-28. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $25,000 | Item 5, p. 22 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Continuing Franchise Fee 5.9% of Gross Sales, weekly (0.5% in Hawaii and the Central States Territory; 1.0% in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington) | Item 6, p. 25 |
| Advertising fund | Continuing Advertising Fee: not read in this pass (reduced CAF applies under some incentives) | Item 6, p. 25 |
Standard restaurant; gas station, convenience store and SDO locations pay the standard fee pro-rated by term or 50% of it; fees paid in 2025 ranged $0 to $25,000.
What a unit sells
Item 19 is optional and is the franchisor's own representation. It is shown here as filed, with the franchisor's measure, sample and period, and nothing is estimated where it is missing.
| Measure | Annual Unit Volume (Gross Sales), 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 814 units: the 2025 Franchised Restaurants: franchised standalone Baskin-Robbins restaurants open the full fiscal year (Combo restaurants with Dunkin' reported separately); quartiles also given | |
| Period | 2024-12-30 to 2025-12-28 | |
| High / low | $2,317,892 / $15,859 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 all-restaurants median AUV / Item 7 total (midpoint, low, high). A ratio of 1.00 means one year of median unit revenue equals the investment; it says nothing about profit.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 1,001 | 978 | 976 |
| Opened | 21 | 33 | 32 |
| Terminated | 10 | 3 | 12 |
| Not renewed | 2 | 11 | 1 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 32 | 21 | 28 |
| End of year | 978 | 976 | 967 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 72; Table 3 totals p. 77.
Closures are the franchisor's Item 20 counts of units terminated, not renewed, or ceased for other reasons, summed over 2023–2025 and divided by franchised units at the start of 2023. Units the franchisor reacquired are not closures. This is an Item 20 count, not a failure rate.
standalone Baskin-Robbins; the 1,252 to 1,219 Dunkin'/Baskin-Robbins Combo outlets are a separate set of tables.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Baskin-Robbins Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-03-26, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640452, registry record). The PDF is the franchisor's and is not hosted here; the item and page beside each figure is where to check it. Item 7 and Item 20 tables were read cell by cell; Item 19 was read by hand; each Item 20 year was checked to sum (start + opened − exits = end) before it was recorded.
Informational only, not professional, legal or investment advice. Unitnomics computes from the filing and does not advise on, rank, or refer to any franchise. Last reviewed: November 2026.