Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641503
BIGGBY COFFEE franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a BIGGBY COFFEE cost $242,200 to $610,000 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $722,832 in the franchisor's 2025 calendar year figures; 7.8% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Global Orange Development, LLC. FDD issued 2026-04-30. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-04.
What a unit costs to open
Whitebox leasehold store; a modular store totals $457,750 to $826,000 and a site-built location $484,200 to $973,000.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $20,000 | Item 5, p. 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalty 6% of Gross Sales, weekly | Item 6, p. 6 |
| Advertising fund | Advertising Fund contribution 3% of Gross Sales | Item 6, p. 7 |
$10,000 for military service members and reduced fees for existing franchisees.
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 Gross Sales, calendar 2025, drive-through Stores systemwide (Chart 1) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 347 units: 347 drive-through franchised Stores open all of 2025 (of 461 franchised Stores at year end), shown systemwide and by quartile; Chart 2 gives a store-level P&L for the 216 drive-through Stores that self-reported financials | |
| Period | 2025 calendar year | |
| High / low | $1,479,804 / $305,863 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 median / Item 7 Whitebox leasehold 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 | 334 | 382 | 420 |
| Opened | 58 | 47 | 48 |
| Terminated | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 7 | 8 | 6 |
| End of year | 382 | 420 | 461 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 51; Table 3 totals p. 52.
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.
all three rows sum; footnotes count a few re-opened stores among the openings.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the BIGGBY COFFEE Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-30, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641503, 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.