Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640915
Pet Wants franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Pet Wants cost $148,150 to $239,400 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $336,125 in the franchisor's 2025 calendar year figures; 5.1% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Pet Wants Franchise System, LLC. FDD issued 2026-04-09. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
single franchise.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $53,500 | Item 5, p. 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Royalty 7% of Gross Revenues or a $350 monthly minimum for 12 months ($1,000 thereafter), whichever is greater | Item 6, p. 6 |
| Advertising fund | National Branding Contribution 2% of Gross Revenues or $350 monthly minimum; plus local advertising of the greater of 2% or $1,500 and a cooperative of up to 3% | Item 6, p. 6 |
territory of up to 100,000 people; $500 per additional 1,000 people.
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 revenues, year ending 2025-12-31, Store franchises, Cumulative row | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 51 units: 51 Store franchises (not delivery-only franchises) open and reporting all of 2025, shown by quartile (12 to 13 stores each) then cumulatively; the 24% at or above average is as printed (12 of 51) | |
| Period | 2025 calendar year | |
| High / low | $1,764,301 / $81,971 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 cumulative 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 | 138 | 146 | 159 |
| Opened | 24 | 24 | 14 |
| Terminated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 16 | 10 | 9 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| End of year | 146 | 159 | 158 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 35; Table 3 totals p. 39.
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; the table prints 35 outlets as reacquired by the franchisor over the three years while Table 1 shows no company-owned outlets.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Pet Wants Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-09, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640915, 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.