Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641240
Zaxby's franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Zaxby's cost $1,460,000 to $3,810,500 in the 2026 FDD; the median unit sold $2,783,862 in the franchisor's fiscal 2025 figures; 2.6% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Zaxby's SPE Franchisor LLC. FDD issued 2026-04-24. Fiscal year end 2025-12-28. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $35,000 | Item 5, p. 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | 6% of Gross Sales, weekly (reduced to 2% and 4%, or 0% and 3%, in the first two years under incentive programs) | Item 6, p. 11 |
| Advertising fund | weekly marketing contributions up to 4% of Gross Sales (national fund plus co-op or multi-DMA) | Item 6, p. 11 |
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, 2025 (Table 1, All Measured Restaurants) | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | 809 units: the Table 1 franchised restaurants (809) with quartiles; Table 2 adds operating costs for 563 franchised restaurants | |
| Period | fiscal 2025 | |
| High / low | $6,882,505 / $936,049 | |
Revenue to investment
Formula: Item 19 all-measured-restaurants 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 | 776 | 796 | 826 |
| Opened | 26 | 37 | 41 |
| Terminated | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | -6 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| End of year | 796 | 826 | 865 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 145 | 143 | 140 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 57; Table 3 totals p. 60.
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.
As filed: 2024 does not sum (796 + 37 − 6 = 827, printed 826), and 2025 prints reacquisitions as −6 (units sold to franchisees shown as a negative reacquisition), which is how the row sums to 865.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Zaxby's Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-24, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641240, 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.