Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641636
Nothing Bundt Cakes franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Nothing Bundt Cakes cost $475,200 to $994,100 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $1,336,380 in the franchisor's fiscal 2025, ended 2025-12-28 figures; 0.2% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: NBC Franchisor LLC. FDD issued 2026-04-30, amended 2026-09-02. Fiscal year end 2025-12-28. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-04.
What a unit costs to open
new Bakery of 1,800 square feet or less (prototype), including lease costs but not real estate purchase; a larger Bakery totals $490,900 to $1,156,200 (page 23).
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $45,000 | Item 5, p. 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalty 6% of weekly Net Revenues | Item 6, p. 13 |
| Advertising fund | Production Fund and Paid Media Fund contributions, combined 5% of weekly Net Revenues | Item 6, p. 14 |
first Bakery; 50% of that for each additional Bakery.
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 | Net Revenues, fiscal 2025, all franchised Bakeries open at least 24 months (Part I, Avg All Bakeries and Median columns) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 545 units: 545 franchised Bakeries open at least two full fiscal years at the end of fiscal 2025 (average 7.4 years old), split into thirds (top third average $2,109,292, bottom third $962,724); none excluded; later parts give a P&L by third, results by age and by market type | |
| Period | fiscal 2025, ended 2025-12-28 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 median / Item 7 prototype Bakery 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 | 457 | 537 | 638 |
| Opened | 80 | 101 | 128 |
| Terminated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| End of year | 537 | 638 | 765 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 17 | 17 | 8 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 71; Table 3 totals p. 81.
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.
worldwide counts; Table 3 gives the U.S. rows (457 at the start of 2023 to 765 at the end of 2025) with Canada separately.
U.S. total rows; all three sum; Table 1 counts include Canada.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Nothing Bundt Cakes Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-30 and amended 2026-09-02, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641636, 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.
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