Highlights
- Every week, 4.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 4% of gross sales but not less than $2,500.00 per month, advertising Currently $0.p.12
- Opening one unit is estimated at $1,706,691 to $2,516,291, including a $35,000 initial fee.p.16
- The system went from 241 outlets at the start of 2023 to 236 at the end of 2025, a net loss of 5.p.40
- In 2025, closures of all kinds equalled 0.0% of the outlets open at the start of the year.
- Item 3 discloses 0 matters.p.11
Tools, from this filing's numbers
What Jason's Deli takes off the top
Royalty 4% of gross sales but not less than $2,500.00 per month plus advertising Currently $0, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Jason's Deli discloses no unit revenue, so start from a number you believe.
Cash you would need to open
The filing's Item 7 range, $1,706,691 to $2,516,291, 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.
Where the units went in 2025
Every outlet that opened, and every one that left, drawn from Item 20 Table 3 to scale.p.42
Total outlets, 2022 to 2025
Compare Jason's Deli with another brand
Side by side, every figure cited.
Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $35,000 | p.11 |
| Royalty | 4% of gross sales but not less than $2,500.00 per month | p.12 |
| Advertising fund | Currently $0 | p.12 |
| Technology fee | held for review |
The filing lists every recurring and conditional fee in Item 6.
Estimated initial investment (Item 7)
| Expenditure | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Fee | $35,000 | $35,000 | p.14 |
| Travel and living expenses while training | $18,000 | $18,000 | p.14 |
| Insurance | $4,500 | $15,000 | p.15 |
| Point-Of-Sale System | $4,000 | $6,000 | p.15 |
| Administrative and Miscellaneous - Pre-Opening Advertising, Deposits | $5,000 | $20,000 | p.15 |
| Build out or remodeling of 3,800-4,500 sq. ft. premises | $950,000 | $1,600,000 | p.15 |
| Licenses | $10,000 | $10,000 | p.15 |
| Initial Inventory | $54,461 | $54,461 | p.16 |
| Site Evaluation Fee | $2,500 | $2,500 | p.16 |
| Additional Funds – 3 months | $20,000 | $35,000 | p.16 |
| Total | $1,706,691 | $2,516,291 | p.16 |
Revenue (Item 19)
Item 19 is held for review: the two readers disagreed. See the run log.
Units (Item 20)
| Type | Year | Start | End | Net | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| franchised | 2023 | 79 | 77 | -2 | p.40 |
| company owned | 2023 | 162 | 160 | -2 | p.40 |
| total | 2023 | 241 | 237 | -4 | p.40 |
| franchised | 2024 | 77 | 73 | -4 | p.40 |
| company owned | 2024 | 160 | 163 | 3 | p.40 |
| total | 2024 | 237 | 236 | -1 | p.40 |
| franchised | 2025 | 73 | 73 | 0 | p.40 |
| company owned | 2025 | 163 | 163 | 0 | p.40 |
| total | 2025 | 236 | 236 | 0 | p.40 |
Openings and closures, system totals (Table 3)
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Non-renewed | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 79 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 77 | p.42 |
| 2024 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 73 | p.42 |
| 2025 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | p.42 |
Arithmetic checks flagged: item7: low lines sum to 1103461, total says 1706691; item7: high lines sum to 1795961, total says 2516291. The figures shown are as filed.
Litigation (Item 3)
The filing states no litigation is required to be disclosed.p.11
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 | $1,706,691 | 61 of 67 |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 4.0% | 2 of 54 |
| Three-year unit growth | -2.1% | 51 of 68 |
| Closure rate, 2025 | 0.0% | 64 of 64, 1 = most |
| Discloses unit revenue | held | |
| Litigation disclosed | 0 | 60 of 61, 1 = most |
Source
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 640717, effective 4/1/2026, expires 4/1/2027. Extracted 2026-09-05 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.