Highlights
- Every week, 5.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 4% of total monthly Gross Sales, advertising 1% of total monthly Gross Sales.p.22
- Opening one unit is estimated at $2,851,880 to $3,951,200, including a $35,000 initial fee.p.26
- Bojangles discloses unit performance in Item 19.p.64
- Item 3 discloses 1 matter.p.15
Tools, from this filing's numbers
What Bojangles takes off the top
Royalty 4% of total monthly Gross Sales plus advertising 1% of total monthly Gross Sales, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Bojangles discloses no unit revenue, so start from a number you believe.
Cash you would need to open
The filing's Item 7 range, $2,851,880 to $3,951,200, is an estimate for one unit including only its first months. Slide between the low and high cases and add the months of runway you want beyond that.
Monthly operating cash is taken as one-twelfth of your weekly-sales figure above times 52, a placeholder for rent, labor and food until you have your own budget.
Compare Bojangles with another brand
Side by side, every figure cited.
Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $35,000 | p.17 |
| Royalty | 4% of total monthly Gross Sales | p.22 |
| Advertising fund | 1% of total monthly Gross Sales | p.22 |
| Technology fee | Currently, $153 per Restaurant | p.22 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franchise fee | $35,000 | $35,000 | p.26 |
| Insurance | $5,000 | $22,000 | p.26 |
| Pre-opening salaries, training materials, travel, living expenses during initial training | $144,550 | $250,000 | p.26 |
| Site selection | $100 | $10,000 | p.26 |
| Building | $1,100,000 | $1,375,000 | p.26 |
| Site work | $662,000 | $848,000 | p.26 |
| Soft costs | $166,000 | $366,000 | p.26 |
| Equipment, furniture, signage and fixtures | $686,000 | $886,000 | p.26 |
| Initial inventory | $21,000 | $75,000 | p.26 |
| Utility deposits & business licenses | $230 | $24,200 | p.26 |
| Additional funds (3 months initial phase) | $32,000 | $60,000 | p.26 |
| Total | $2,851,880 | $3,951,200 | p.26 |
Revenue (Item 19)
Bojangles reports a financial performance figure.p.64 What the figure measures, which units were excluded and what it leaves out are in the report.
Litigation (Item 3)
1 pending case described.p.15 Counts are of distinct matters as the filing describes them; the report carries each one in plain words.
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 | $2,851,880 | 69 of 74 |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 5.0% | 6 of 59 |
| Three-year unit growth | held | held |
| Closure rate | held | held |
| Discloses unit revenue | yes | |
| Litigation disclosed | 1 | 19 of 68, 1 = most |
Source
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 641099, effective 4/20/2026, expires 4/20/2027. Extracted 2026-09-04 by two independent readers; only figures both agreed on, whose quoted words appear on the cited page, are shown. 7 fields held for review. How this works.