Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641439
Blaze Pizza franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Blaze Pizza cost $757,000 to $1,297,100 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $1,225,848 in the franchisor's fiscal 2025 figures; 29.4% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Blaze Pizza, LLC. FDD issued 2026-04-30. Fiscal year end 2025-12-28. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
Traditional Location; a second small table on p.16 ($10,000 to $90,000) covers a separate program and is not a restaurant format.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $30,000 | Item 5, p. 7 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Continuing Royalty 5% of Gross Sales, weekly | Item 6, p. 7 |
| Advertising fund | Creative Fund Contribution currently 2% of weekly Gross Sales, up to 4% | Item 6, p. 7 |
plus a $10,000 minimum grand-opening advertising spend.
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 | Gross Sales, fiscal 2025 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 208 units: the 2025 Franchised Restaurants at Traditional Locations: franchised restaurants open the entire 2025 fiscal year (10 mall storefront restaurants reported separately, median $1,299,200; 38 that closed in 2025 excluded) | |
| Period | fiscal 2025 | |
| High / low | $3,361,445 / $378,061 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 traditional-location median / 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 | 296 | 283 | 255 |
| Opened | 8 | 6 | 13 |
| Terminated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 3 | 7 | 18 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 12 | 27 | 20 |
| End of year | 283 | 255 | 230 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 13 | 11 | — |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 49; Table 3 totals p. 56.
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.
company-owned and total rows for 2025 not captured in this pass; franchised rows verified.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Blaze Pizza Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-30, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641439, 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.