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The Learning Experience

THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE SYSTEMS LLC · education childcare · FDD 2026 · WI filing 641236 · effective 4/24/2026

InvestmentNoneto None
Fee$60,000p.16
Royalty + ad7.0%p.21
Item 19$2,186,393p.66
Units, 2025465p.73
3-yr growth37.2%
Closures 20252.8%
Litigation1

Highlights

  • Every week, 7.0% of gross sales goes to the franchisor before rent, food or labor: royalty 7% of the Center's Gross Revenue.p.21
  • The Learning Experience discloses unit performance in Item 19: Average Gross Sales of $2,186,393.p.66
  • The system went from 339 outlets at the start of 2023 to 465 at the end of 2025, a net gain of 126.p.73
  • In 2025, closures of all kinds equalled 2.8% of the outlets open at the start of the year.
  • Item 3 discloses 1 matter.p.15

Tools, from this filing's numbers

Where the units went in 2025

Every outlet that opened, and every one that left, drawn from Item 20 Table 3 to scale.p.77

0 terminated0 non-renewed5 reacquired6 ceased, other386start of 2025+57 opened436end of 2025

Total outlets, 2022 to 2025

2022339202336620244172025465

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Fees (Items 5 and 6)

Initial franchise fee, standard$60,000p.16
Royalty7% of the Center's Gross Revenuep.21
Advertising fundnot stated
Technology fee$525 per monthp.22

The filing lists every recurring and conditional fee in Item 6. The report carries all of them.

Revenue (Item 19)

The Learning Experience reports Average Gross Sales of $2,186,393 across 266 outlets for January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025.p.67 What the figure measures, which units were excluded and what it leaves out are in the report.

Units (Item 20)

TypeYearStartEndNet
franchised202330132625p.73
company owned202338402p.73
total202333936627p.73
franchised202432638660p.73
company owned20244031-9p.73
total202436641751p.73
franchised202538643650p.73
company owned20253129-2p.73
total202541746548p.73

Openings and closures, system totals (Table 3)

YearStartOpenedTerminatedNon-renewedReacquiredCeased, otherEnd
20233013100112326p.77
2024326540021386p.77
2025386570056436p.77

Arithmetic checks flagged: Item 20 Table 3 does not foot for 2023: start + opened - closures = 319, filing states 326; Item 20 Table 3 does not foot for 2025: start + opened - closures = 432, filing states 436; Item 20 Table 3 does not foot for 2024: start + opened - closures = 377, filing states 386. The figures shown are as filed.

Litigation (Item 3)

1 pending case described.p.15 1 case brought by franchisees or former franchisees.p.15 Counts are of distinct matters as the filing describes them; the report carries each one in plain words.

Scorecard

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Cost to openheldheld
Royalty plus ad fund7.0%11 of 43
Three-year unit growth37.2%6 of 54
Closure rate, 20252.8%23 of 51, 1 = most
Discloses unit revenueyes
Litigation disclosed110 of 26, 1 = most

Source

Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions franchise filing 641236, effective 4/24/2026, expires 4/24/2027. Extracted 2026-09-04 by two independent readers; only figures both agreed on, whose quoted words appear on the cited page, are shown. 6 fields held for review. How this works.