Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641354
Fantastic Sams franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Fantastic Sams cost $162,500 to $453,000 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $300,755 in the franchisor's 2025 calendar year figures; 25.2% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Fantastic Sams Franchise Corporation. FDD issued 2026-04-29. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
single Salon; the Multi-Unit Development Agreement table totals $182,500 to $473,000 (page 13).
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $35,000 | Item 5, p. 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Weekly Franchise Fee 6% of Gross Sales (the greater of 6% or $150 per week for the first 26 weeks) | Item 6, p. 7 |
| Advertising fund | National Advertising Fund Fee currently $147.49 per week, plus a Regional Advertising Fund Fee that varies by area | Item 6, p. 7 |
$10,000 for an additional Salon; fees collected in the prior fiscal year ranged from $0 to $40,000.
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 | Gross Sales for the calendar year ended 2025-12-31, All Locations row (the introduction describes the figures as average monthly Gross Sales of Salons that reported 12 months of data) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 311 units: 311 of the 484 franchised US Salons open all of 2025 that reported 12 months of Gross Sales; excludes 134 that did not report 12 months, 28 transferred in 2025, 11 opened in 2025 and 28 that closed; quartile and half rows are also given | |
| Period | 2025 calendar year | |
| High / low | $1,038,420 / $68,577 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 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 | 614 | 566 | 512 |
| Opened | 7 | 7 | 11 |
| Terminated | 16 | 9 | 22 |
| Not renewed | 10 | 22 | 7 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 29 | 30 | 10 |
| End of year | 566 | 512 | 484 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 37; Table 3 totals p. 43.
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.
Table 3 prints the 2023 year end and 2024 start as 566, one more than Table 1.
all three rows sum; the 2023 year end (566) is one more than the 565 in Table 1.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Fantastic Sams Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-29, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641354, 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.