Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640905
Grease Monkey franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Grease Monkey cost $708,057 to $2,284,321 in the 2026 FDD; the franchisor's revenue disclosure has no single unit figure; 7.0% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Grease Monkey Franchising, LLC. FDD issued 2026-04-07. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
three-bay Center on a leased site; the chart assumes you lease, and Note 3 puts land purchase at roughly $600,000 to $1,500,000 if you buy instead.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $39,900 | Item 5, p. 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalty 6.0% of Gross Revenues, monthly | Item 6, p. 12 |
| Advertising fund | Advertising Contribution 0.5% of Gross Revenues to the National Materials Fund (may be raised to 1%), plus a 4.0% local advertising commitment | Item 6, p. 12 |
single Grease Monkey Center.
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.
Item 19 present, no single unit figure. Chart I: fiscal 2025 operating results for 174 franchisee-owned Centers grouped into five annual sales categories (A, $600,000 or less, 32 Centers, average Net Sales $438,063; E, over $1,200,000, 54 Centers, average $1,693,209), with cost lines to EBITDAR; later charts give quartiles of average sales; no all-center row (Item 19, p. 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52).
Sample: 174 franchisee-owned Centers open all of fiscal 2025, grouped by annual sales range; quartile charts cover 43 or 44 Centers each. Period: fiscal 2025.
Revenue to investment
Undefined: Item 19 is split by sales category with no combined figure.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 187 | 201 | 209 |
| Opened | 17 | 13 | 29 |
| Terminated | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| End of year | 201 | 209 | 233 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 151 | 163 | 175 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 53; 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.
all three rows sum (U.S. Totals row).
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Grease Monkey Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-07, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640905, 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.