Bombshells Restaurant & Bar Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
- Investment
- $2.1M – $3.8M
- Disclosed sales
- $4.6M
- gross sales, not profit
- SBA charge-off
- Not SBA-matched
Data from FDD filing
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
Bombshells Restaurant & Bar is a casual-dining franchise serving American fare and drinks in a military-themed bar setting. Franchisees run the restaurants, managing the kitchen, bar, and dining service.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A Bombshells Restaurant & Bar franchise requires a total initial investment of $2.1M – $3.8M, including a $50K franchise fee and an ongoing 5.5% royalty[2]. Per the 2024 FDD, average unit revenue was $4.6M[2]. FranchiseVerdict grade: C (Average), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Sources, dates and evidence
FDD issued: · Data extracted: · Last cited check: · Staleness risk: high - issued more than two years ago
Evidence: partial✓ Investment (Item 7)✓ Item 19 status✓ Units and owners (Item 20)✗ SBA loan coverage✓ Litigation (Item 3)✓ Financial statements (Item 21)✓ Franchisor identityhow this is scored8 of 8 headline figures on this page cite a page of the filing.
Overview
- Investment
- $2.1M – $3.8M
- 38th pct Service Resta…
- Avg gross sales
- $4.6M
- Company-owned only
- Royalty
- 5.5%
- 23rd pct Service Resta…
- Units
- 12
- 15th pct Service Resta…
- SBA charge-off
- N/A
Quick verdict · Full-Service Restaurants · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Full-Service Restaurants median · No shading = within ±10% · Red = unfavorable by >10% · Source: FDD filings + SBA 7(a)
Data from public FDD filings and SBA records. Not financial advice. Methodology
Bottom line
- COSTTotal investment $2.1M – $3.8M including a $50K franchise fee, 5.5% ongoing royalty.
- RETURNSAverage unit revenue of $4.6M/year (median $4.6M) (company-owned outlets only - not franchisee performance).
- RISKVerdict C (Average), verdict score 39/100 (higher is better).
- GROWTHNegative: net -1 franchised outlets in the latest year (0 opened, 0 closed); 1 signed but not yet open (Item 20).
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- BMB Franchising Services, Inc.
- Parent company
- RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc.
- FDD Item 1, page 9 of the 2024 FDD
- CEO title
- Chief Executive Officer, Secretary and Director
- Eric S. Langan
- Incorporated in
- TX
- HQ
- 10737 Cutten Road, Houston, TX 77066
- Auditor
- Marcum LLP
- Audited financials
- Franchisor revenue
- $157K
- vs $167K prior year
Overview
About
- CEO
- Eric S. Langan
- Headquarters
- TX
- Founded
- 2015
- FDD year
- 2024
- States available
- 1
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 336% above the typical full-service restaurants franchise.
Source: FDD 2024 · Items 5–7
Full Item 7 breakdown16 line items
Initial investment breakdown
| Line item | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Fee | — | — | |
| Initial Franchise Fee | $50K | $50K | |
| Leasehold Improvements | $1.0M | $2.2M | |
| Equipment, Furniture, Fixtures, and Signage | $800K | $1.1M | |
| Liquor License | — | — | |
| Business Licenses and Permits | $3K | $4K | |
| Initial Training Costs | $25K | $50K | |
| Opening Training Team Costs | $60K | $75K | |
| Initial Inventory and Supplies | $45K | $90K | |
| Professional Services | $8K | $18K | |
| Grand Opening Promotion | $15K | $15K | |
| Insurance | $8K | $12K | |
| Market Plan Fee | $500 | $500 | |
| Architect Training Fee | $0 | $5K | |
| Audio/Visual Review Fee | $0 | $1K | |
| Additional Funds - 3 month period | $80K | $150K | |
| Total initial investment | $2.1M | $3.8M |
Line items extracted from FDD Item 7. Ranges reflect the franchisor's stated low and high per line. Total is the sum of line-item lows / highs — actual costs may fall outside this range depending on market and build-out scope.
Item 7 · what it costs to open + operate
The Vitals
- Total investment
- $2.1M – $3.8M
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $80K – $150K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $50K – $50K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Royalty
- 5.5%
- typical 6–8%
- Ad fund
- 2.5%
- typical 3–5%
- Total fee load
- 8.0%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty | 5.5% of gross sales |
| Marketing / ad fund | 2.5% |
| Technology fee | $300 |
| Training fee | $25K |
| Transfer fee | $13K |
| Renewal fee | $25K |
| Inventory (initial) | $45K – $90K |
| Total fee load | 8.0% of rev |
What do units actually make?
Average unit sales run 188% above the full-service restaurants norm.
Company-owned outlets only - not franchisee performance
Source: FDD 2024 · Item 19
Single-unit · not modelled
Returns at a glance
An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit, and the operating costs that turn one into the other are in no filing. We publish no modelled return for Bombshells Restaurant & Bar until someone supplies them — yours, in the models below.
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Not modelled yet
An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit. We hold no sourced figure for COGS, labour, rent / occupancy and other operating costs, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.
Total invested capital · disclosed
$3.1M
Item 7 initial investment plus working capital, as filed — the one figure here that needs no assumption.
ROI & LBO modelsSingle-unit · 25-unit portfolio · editable
What one unit earns on your invested capital
Model A · Single-Unit Return
Computes unlevered return on invested capital (ROIC) for a single franchise unit, read against the 30–60% reference band · Yale SOM, Post-MBA Path Exhibit 2 (2023). Below that band a passive index fund likely outperforms; above it the franchisor has pricing power you're subsidizing.
Note: Item 19 revenue is what the franchisor discloses, and it is the top line only — gross sales are not profit. No FDD discloses the operating costs that turn one into the other, so those fields start empty and nothing is modelled until you supply them from your own lease quote, labor market and build-out budget.
Returns model · single-unit ROIC
What would one Bombshells Restaurant & Bar unit return on the cash you put in?
Illustrative category typicals — not sourced to any filing, survey or sample. Replace them with figures from franchisee validation calls before you rely on the output.
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
Your modelled return on total invested capital, before any debt financing.
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An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit. We hold no sourced figure for COGS, labour, rent / occupancy and other operating costs, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.
What 25 units return when you use SBA financing
Model B · Return on Equity: Debt-Financed Acquisition
Models a 25-unit portfolio acquisition financed with an SBA 7(a) loan. Shows equity IRR (your return on cash invested), DSCR (how safely the cash flow covers debt service), and the capital stack (SBA + seller + equity breakdown).
This is the “search fund” or “entrepreneurship through acquisition” scenario: you buy an existing multi-unit operator, use leverage to amplify returns, and either operate or hire management. The 25-unit size is the typical minimum for an SBA-backed franchise portfolio acquisition to pencil as a full-time income.
What “return on equity” means here: if you put in $500K of your own cash and the business generates enough EBITDA to pay down debt and grow, your equity IRR is the annual return on that $500K, including the value created when you eventually sell. Target IRR for a search fund is typically 25–35%.
Not modelled yet
An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit. We hold no sourced figure for COGS, labour, rent / occupancy and other operating costs, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.
A 25-unit return is built on a per-unit EBITDA. Fill in the operating costs in Model A above and this model runs on that figure, or take the whole scenario to the full ROI workbench, where the portfolio and LBO models accept your own per-unit economics directly.
These models are for research and scenario planning only. Not investment advice. Actual results depend on your specific location, management, and market conditions. Consult a franchise attorney and accountant before signing any franchise agreement.
Item 19 · Source: 2024 FDD
Financial Performance
Company-owned outlets only - not franchisee performance
- Avg gross sales
- $4.6M
- Per unit, per year
- Median gross sales
- $4.6M
Gross sales are revenue before expenses — not profit. Actual owner earnings depend on rent, labor, royalties, marketing fees, and debt service.
- Item 19 type
- gross sales
- Sample size
- 11 outlets
- vs category median 18
- Range (low → high)
- $3.3M→$5.6MCited, not corroborated — printed on page 50 of the 2024 FDD. Nothing else in our record independently restates or re-derives it.
- Cohort dispersion (min → max)
- Reporting year
- 2023
- Fiscal year the figures cover
- Source filing
- FDD 2024
- Disclosed in the 2024 filing, covering 2023
- Transparency
- 7 / 10
- vs category median 3 / 10 · above
Compared against 801 Full-Service Restaurants brands
Operator outlook
What the numbers say
Data-driven interpretation of this brand's financial disclosures, fee structure, and system trajectory.
Unit economics
Average unit generates $4.6M/year in gross sales. Revenue-to-investment ratio: 1.6x. Company-owned outlets only - not franchisee performance.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 8.0% (near the Full-Service Restaurants median).
Disclosure
Transparency score 7/10 — this franchisor discloses detailed breakdowns (quartiles, segments, or cohort data). Buyers can model unit economics with higher confidence.
Operator retention
Net unit growth roughly flat at 0.0%.
Source: FDD Item 19 financial performance representations and publicly filed FDD data. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Verify all figures with the franchisor and current franchisees before making any investment decision.
vs Full-Service Restaurants medians
How Bombshells Restaurant & Bar Compares
Category median of published Full-Service Restaurants brands that report the figure; the middle half spans the 25th to 75th percentile and n counts the brands behind it. Medians are used because a few very large systems pull an average far from the typical brand. Revenue is disclosed gross sales, not profit.
Is the system healthy?
Source: FDD 2024 · Item 20
Unit growth
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
- Total units
- 12
- Opened
- 0
- Last reporting year
- Closed
- 0
- Terminated
- 0
- Franchisor ended the franchise (per Item 20)
- Non-renewed
- 0
- Term expired, not renewed (per Item 20)
- Turnover rate
- N/A
- Company-owned
- 12
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 0%
- vs corporate-owned
- Net growth (3-yr)
- +0.0%
- Net unit change over 3 years
Last fiscal year · Item 20 exits and transfers
- Terminated
- 0
- Not renewed
- 0
- Transferred
- 0
- Reacquired
- 1
- Franchisor bought back
- Signed, not yet open
- 1
- 0.08 per open outlet · Item 20 Table 5
- Projected new
- 1
- Franchisor's next-year forecast
- Ceased ops
- 10.0%
- Units that stopped operating
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 12 · 1 state reported
The Territory Map
FDD Item 12 reports the state count, but the specific list isn't in our current data. The map will appear once we re-extract from the FDD or enough franchisee contacts are available.
1
states with franchisees (per FDD Item 12)
SBA loan performance
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA 7(a) and 504 loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.
No SBA loan data available for this brand.
What could kill this investment?
Source: SBA 7(a) FOIA · FDD Items 3, 21
Risk analysis
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 4, 8, 16, 21
Risk & Legal
Litigation (Item 3)
Subject: the franchisor is a named party (defendant).
Three settled matters involving parent RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. and CEO Eric Langan: (1) shareholder derivative action settled Oct 2023 for $1.2M in attorneys' fees; (2) securities class action settled Aug 2022 for $2.2M; (3) SEC administrative proceeding settled Sep 2020 for $600K total
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
None disclosed
Audited financials (Item 21)
Yes · Marcum LLP
Franchisor revenue (Item 21)
Franchisor entity revenue (not unit-level)
Audited statements of BMB Franchising Services, Inc. (franchisor), fiscal year ended September 30, 2023. Revenue $156,713 (FY2023) vs $166,551 (FY2022); franchisor reported a net loss of $2,069 and a total stockholder's deficit of $(161,798); auditors noted going-concern considerations.
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: Yes
- Kickbacks from required suppliers: No
- Must buy proprietary products: Yes
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
- Can negotiate own supplier terms: No
Score breakdown · what drove the 39 / 100 verdict
- 01HIGHThree major litigation settlements totaling $4M+ involving shareholder derivative, securities class action, and SEC penalties suggest governance/compliance failures at corporate level
- 02MINOROnly 12 units with unknown growth trajectory raises questions about system viability and franchisee recruitment success
- 03MEDNet income not disclosed in Item 19 prevents ROI validation; with 5.5% royalty on $4.6M revenue = $253K annual fee burden
- 04MEDHigh investment range ($2.1M–$5.6M) combined with undisclosed profitability creates significant return uncertainty
- 05MINORSEC settlement regarding executive compensation and related party transactions suggests potential misuse of franchisor resources
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 8.0% of sales (royalty + ad fund), before rent and labor.
Source: FDD 2024 · Items 11, 12, 17
FDD Items 12, 15, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
| Initial term | 10 years |
|---|---|
| Renewal term | 5 years |
| Allowed renewalsℹ | 2 |
| Territory type | Protected territory |
| Protected territory | Yes |
| Exclusive territoryℹ | No |
| Online sales rightsℹ | Restricted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Optional |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 2 years |
| Non-compete (miles)ℹ | 25 mi |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| RoFR response window | 30 days |
| Transfer requires consent | Yes |
| Termination notice | 30 days |
| Termination groundsℹ | 2 |
| Curable defaultsℹ | 7 |
| Mandatory arbitration | No |
| Arbitration location | Houston, Texas |
| Jury trial waiver | Yes |
| Governing law | TX |
| Litigation count | 3 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
Three settled matters involving parent RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. and CEO Eric Langan: (1) shareholder derivative action settled Oct 2023 for $1.2M in attorneys' fees; (2) securities class action settled Aug 2022 for $2.2M; (3) SEC administrative proceeding settled Sep 2020 for $600K total
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 70 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 260 hrs
- Training location
- Houston, Texas
- Ongoing training
- Required
- Time to open
- 9 mo
- From signing to launch
- Site selection
- Franchisee with franchisor approval
- Franchisor financing
- Not offered
- Item 10
- POS system
- Aloha
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: Aloha
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to open a Bombshells Restaurant & Bar franchise?
The total investment to open a Bombshells Restaurant & Bar franchise ranges from $2.1M – $3.8M, with an initial franchise fee of $50K. This includes real estate, equipment, inventory, and working capital as disclosed in their Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
What do Bombshells Restaurant & Bar franchise owners earn?
According to Item 19 of the Bombshells Restaurant & Bar FDD, the average gross sales per unit is $4.6M. The median is $4.6M. Important context: Company-owned outlets only - not franchisee performance. Note: this is gross revenue, not profit. Actual owner earnings vary based on location, operating costs, and management.
Who owns Bombshells Restaurant & Bar?
Bombshells Restaurant & Bar is franchised by BMB Franchising Services, Inc.. Its parent company is RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc.. Source: FDD Item 1, 2024 filing.
What is Item 19 in the Bombshells Restaurant & Bar FDD?
The FDD section where a franchisor may disclose financial performance of its outlets. Disclosure is optional and formats vary; figures are typically gross sales, which is revenue before expenses, not profit. FranchiseVerdict extracts these figures directly from the Bombshells Restaurant & Bar FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is Bombshells Restaurant & Bar's franchise failure rate?
SBA 7(a) loan charge-off data is not available for Bombshells Restaurant & Bar (fewer than 10 loans on file). Charge-off rates are one way to gauge franchise risk, but not all franchise loans go through the SBA program. We recommend reviewing turnover and closure data in the FDD and speaking with current franchisees.
How many Bombshells Restaurant & Bar franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, Bombshells Restaurant & Bar has 12 total units in the United States.
Is Bombshells Restaurant & Bar a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates Bombshells Restaurant & Bar as a C-grade franchise with a verdict score of 39 out of 100 (higher is better). The grade is a deterministic score built from six weighted dimensions — financial health, unit economics, unit growth, scale, legal, and transparency — then calibrated against SBA loan charge-off rates and FDD age. Transparency is one of the six, so a filing that discloses less scores lower on that dimension than one that discloses more. Our rating is based solely on publicly available FDD and government data; we recommend speaking with current franchisees before making any investment decision. This is not investment advice.
Data sourced from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) FOIA records. Not financial advice.
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