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
What The Learning Experience takes off the top
Royalty 7% of the Center's Gross Revenue, applied to your own sales estimate. The rates are the filing's; the sales are yours.
Preset to the filing's Item 19 figure, $2,186,393 a year.p.67
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
Total outlets, 2022 to 2025
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Fees (Items 5 and 6)
| Initial franchise fee, standard | $60,000 | p.16 |
| Royalty | 7% of the Center's Gross Revenue | p.21 |
| Advertising fund | not stated | |
| Technology fee | $525 per month | p.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)
| Type | Year | Start | End | Net | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| franchised | 2023 | 301 | 326 | 25 | p.73 |
| company owned | 2023 | 38 | 40 | 2 | p.73 |
| total | 2023 | 339 | 366 | 27 | p.73 |
| franchised | 2024 | 326 | 386 | 60 | p.73 |
| company owned | 2024 | 40 | 31 | -9 | p.73 |
| total | 2024 | 366 | 417 | 51 | p.73 |
| franchised | 2025 | 386 | 436 | 50 | p.73 |
| company owned | 2025 | 31 | 29 | -2 | p.73 |
| total | 2025 | 417 | 465 | 48 | p.73 |
Openings and closures, system totals (Table 3)
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Non-renewed | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 301 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 326 | p.77 |
| 2024 | 326 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 386 | p.77 |
| 2025 | 386 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 436 | p.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 open | held | held |
| Royalty plus ad fund | 7.0% | 11 of 43 |
| Three-year unit growth | 37.2% | 6 of 54 |
| Closure rate, 2025 | 2.8% | 23 of 51, 1 = most |
| Discloses unit revenue | yes | |
| Litigation disclosed | 1 | 10 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.