Highlights
- Every week, 6.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 6% of Gross Sales.p.14
- Opening one unit is estimated at $242,200, including a $20,000 initial fee.p.24
- Biggby Coffee discloses unit performance in Item 19.p.55
- The system went from 334 outlets at the start of 2023 to 461 at the end of 2025, a net gain of 127.p.59
- In 2025, closures of all kinds equalled 1.7% of the outlets open at the start of the year.
- Item 3 discloses 0 matters.p.13
Tools, from this filing's numbers
What Biggby Coffee takes off the top
Royalty 6% of Gross Sales, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Preset to the filing's Item 19 figure, $756,742 a year.p.57
Where the units went in 2025
Every outlet that opened, and every one that left, drawn from Item 20 Table 3 to scale.p.60
Total outlets, 2022 to 2025
Compare Biggby Coffee with another brand
Side by side, every figure cited.
Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $20,000 | p.13 |
| Royalty | 6% of Gross Sales | p.14 |
| Advertising fund | not stated | |
| Technology fee | held for review |
The filing lists every recurring and conditional fee in Item 6. The report carries all of them.
Estimated initial investment (Item 7)
| Expenditure | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Fee | $20,000 | $20,000 | p.23 |
| Signage (Interior and Exterior) | $6,500 | $19,500 | p.23 |
| Real Property Rental or License | $6,000 | $18,500 | p.24 |
| Initial Inventory | $10,000 | $15,000 | p.24 |
| Miscellaneous Travel and Living Expenses for Training | $500 | $5,000 | p.24 |
| License Permits and Other | $1,000 | $5,500 | p.24 |
| Initial Advertising and Grand Opening Promotions | $9,500 | $9,500 | p.24 |
| Organizational Expenses | $2,000 | $2,500 | p.24 |
| Additional Funds-3 months | $10,000 | $40,000 | p.24 |
| Total | $242,200 | held | p.24 |
Revenue (Item 19)
Biggby Coffee reports a financial performance figure of $756,742 across 347 outlets for 2025.p.57 What the figure measures, which units were excluded and what it leaves out are in the report.
Units (Item 20)
| Type | Year | Start | End | Net | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| franchised | 2023 | 334 | 382 | 48 | p.59 |
| company owned | 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.59 |
| total | 2023 | 334 | 382 | 48 | p.59 |
| franchised | 2024 | 382 | 420 | 38 | p.59 |
| company owned | 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.59 |
| total | 2024 | 382 | 420 | 38 | p.59 |
| franchised | 2025 | 420 | 461 | 41 | p.59 |
| company owned | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | p.59 |
| total | 2025 | 420 | 461 | 41 | p.59 |
Openings and closures, system totals (Table 3)
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Non-renewed | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 334 | 58 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 382 | p.60 |
| 2024 | 382 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 420 | p.60 |
| 2025 | 420 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 461 | p.60 |
Arithmetic checks flagged: item7: low lines sum to 65500, total says 242200. The figures shown are as filed.
Litigation (Item 3)
The filing states no litigation is required to be disclosed.p.13
Scorecard
Rank among the brands on this site that report the figure, on each list's own direction. No blended grade. How the lists work.
| Cost to open | $242,200 | 19 of 74 |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 6.0% | 11 of 59 |
| Three-year unit growth | 38.0% | 5 of 75 |
| Closure rate, 2025 | 1.7% | 47 of 71, 1 = most |
| Discloses unit revenue | yes | |
| Litigation disclosed | 0 | 45 of 68, 1 = most |
Source
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 641503, effective 4/30/2026, expires 4/30/2027. Extracted 2026-09-04 by two independent readers; only figures both agreed on, whose quoted words appear on the cited page, are shown. 18 fields held for review. How this works.