Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640363
Jack in the Box franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Jack in the Box cost $1,909,500 to $4,041,500 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $1,830,083 in the franchisor's 2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30 figures; 5.6% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Different Rules, LLC. FDD issued 2026-03-13. Fiscal year end 2025-09-28. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-04.
What a unit costs to open
prototypical restaurant, excluding land, financing and certain other costs.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $50,000 | Item 5, p. 22 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalty 5% of Gross Sales, monthly | Item 6, p. 26 |
| Advertising fund | Marketing fee 5% of Gross Sales, monthly | Item 6, p. 27 |
typical fee for a 20-year term; $25,000 at a nontraditional location; fees collected in fiscal 2025 ranged from $0 to $50,000.
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, twelve months ended 2025-09-30, franchised Restaurants in the continental U.S. excluding C-Store/Travel Plaza sites (Table 1, Total row) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 1,754 units: 1,754 franchised Restaurants open for both twelve-month periods ending 2025-09-30 and 2024-09-30 under the same franchisee, shown in thirds (top third average $2,632,491, bottom third $1,266,871); the 2024 period covered 1,786 Restaurants (average $1,986,186, median $1,928,638); 80 C-Store/Travel Plaza Restaurants are in Table 2 and cost ratios in Tables 3 and 4 | |
| Period | 2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30 | |
| High / low | $5,882,584 / $624,106 | |
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 | 2,034 | 2,043 | 2,040 |
| Opened | 23 | 22 | 20 |
| Terminated | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 10 | 16 | 75 |
| End of year | 2,043 | 2,040 | 1,985 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 142 | 150 | 151 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 85; Table 3 totals p. 88.
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.
fiscal years ending late September.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Jack in the Box Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-03-13, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640363, 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.
The filed PDF carries no printed page numbers, so the page citations below are positions in the PDF file. The fiscal year ends in late September, so Item 19 covers the twelve months to 2025-09-30 and Item 20 runs fiscal 2023 to 2025..
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.