Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
- Investment
- $285K – $484K
- Disclosed sales
- $886K
- gross sales, not profit
- SBA charge-off
- Not SBA-matched
Data from FDD filing
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
Green Leaf's is a fast-casual franchise serving fresh salads alongside smoothies and frozen yogurt, often in food courts. Franchisees run the locations, managing fresh prep, staffing, and counter service.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt franchise requires a total initial investment of $285K – $484K, including a $25K – $35K franchise fee and an ongoing 5.0% royalty[2]. Per the 2024 FDD, average unit revenue was $886K[2]. FranchiseVerdict grade: B (Above average), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Sources, dates and evidence
FDD issued: 2024 filing · Data extracted: · Last cited check: · Staleness risk: high - figures are from a filing two or more years old
Evidence: strong✓ 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 scored7 of 8 headline figures on this page cite a page of the filing; the rest are marked “Not cited” beside the figure.
Overview
- Investment
- $285K – $484K
- 45th pct Service Resta…
- Avg gross sales
- $886K
- 16th pct Service Resta…
- Royalty
- 5.0%
- 12th pct Service Resta…
- Units
- 23
- 51st pct Service Resta…
- SBA charge-off
- N/A
Quick verdict · Quick-Service Restaurants · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Quick-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 $285K – $484K including a $25K franchise fee, 5.0% ongoing royalty.
- RETURNSAverage unit revenue of $886K/year (median $702K).
- RISKVerdict B (Above average), verdict score 50/100 (higher is better).
- GROWTHNegative: net -2 franchised outlets in the latest year (1 opened, 3 closed) (Item 20).
- FLAGItem 4 discloses a bankruptcy of an officer or of a company an officer ran, not of the franchisor. Review Item 4 for details.
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- Everything Yogurt Brands, LLC
- Parent company
- Villa Pizza, Inc.
- FDD Item 1, page 8 of the 2024 FDD
- Predecessor
- Everything Yogurt Brands, Inc. (f/k/a Restaurant Systems International, Inc.; f/k/a Everything Yogurt, Inc.)
- Prior franchisor entity
- CEO title
- Chief Executive Officer and Director
- Anthony Scotto
- CEO experience
- 2003 yrs
- Years in role or industry
- Incorporated in
- DE
- HQ
- 25 Washington Street, Morristown, New Jersey 07960
- Auditor
- Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP
- Audited financials
- Franchisor revenue
- $718K
- vs $764K prior year
- Management churn noted
- Frequent turnover
- Item 2 disclosed frequent executive changes
Same owner · FDD Item 1, page 8
1 other brand on this site name Villa Pizza, Inc. as parent or ultimate parent in their own FDD.
Grouped by the owner's name as each filing prints it (this page: the 2024 FDD). Spelling variants of the same group may be listed apart; a brand is never grouped with an owner its filing does not name.
Overview
About
- CEO
- Anthony Scotto
- Headquarters
- NJ
- Founded
- 2003
- FDD year
- 2024
- States available
- 13
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 21% below the typical quick-service restaurants franchise.
Source: FDD 2024 · Items 5–7
Full Item 7 breakdown15 line items
Initial investment breakdown
| Line item | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franchise Fee | $25K | $35K | |
| Equipment and Furnishings | $80K | $110K | |
| Signs | $9K | $15K | |
| Real Estate | — | — | |
| Building Construction | $110K | $200K | |
| Insurance | $3K | $6K | |
| Opening Inventory | $4K | $7K | |
| Utility Deposits | $2K | $2K | |
| Business Licenses (local health and safety regulation and compliance costs) | $1K | $4K | |
| Travel, Lodging and meals for Initial Training | $3K | $5K | |
| Grand Opening Advertising | — | — | |
| Professional Fees | $10K | $25K | |
| Additional Funds (three months) | $25K | $50K | |
| Computer Equipment | $10K | $20K | |
| Advertising and Marketing | $3K | $5K | |
| Total initial investment | $285K | $484K |
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
- $285K – $484K
- Middle of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $25K – $50K
- Middle of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $25K – $35K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Royalty
- 5.0%
- typical 6–8%
- Ad fund
- 1.0%
- typical 3–5%
- Total fee load
- 6.0%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty | 5.0% of gross sales |
| Marketing / ad fund | 1.0% of gross sales |
| Transfer fee | $10K |
| Renewal fee | $50 |
| Inventory (initial) | $4K – $7K |
| Total fee load | 6.0% of rev |
A 6.0% total fee load is unusually lean. More of each revenue dollar stays with the franchisee.
What do units actually make?
Average unit sales run 9% below the quick-service restaurants norm.
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 Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt 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
$422K
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 Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt 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
- Avg gross sales
- $886K
- Per unit, per year
- Median gross sales
- $702K
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
- 10 outlets
- vs category median 19
- Range (low → high)
- $414K→$3.0MCited, not corroborated — printed on page 54 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 4 / 10 · above
Compared against 781 Quick-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 $886K/year in gross sales. Median is $702K — top performers pull the average up, so a typical unit earns less. Revenue-to-investment ratio: 2.3x.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 6.0% — below the Quick-Service Restaurants median of 7.5%.
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
System roughly stable (0.0% 3-year CAGR) with 23 units.
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 Quick-Service Restaurants medians
How Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt Compares
Category median of published Quick-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
- 23
- Opened
- 1
- Last reporting year
- Closed
- 3
- Terminated
- 0
- Franchisor ended the franchise (per Item 20)
- Non-renewed
- 3
- Term expired, not renewed (per Item 20)
- Turnover rate
- 13.0%
- Company-owned
- 9
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 61%
- vs corporate-owned
- Net growth (3-yr)
- +0.0%
- Net unit change over 3 years
- 3-yr CAGR
- +0.0%
- Compounded over last 3 years
Last fiscal year · Item 20 exits and transfers
- Terminated
- 0
- Not renewed
- 3
- Transferred
- 0
- Reacquired
- 0
- Franchisor bought back
- Signed, not yet open
- 0
- 0.00 per open outlet · Item 20 Table 5
- Projected new
- 0
- Franchisor's next-year forecast
- Termination rate
- 13.0%
- Franchisor-initiated terminations
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 12 · 13 states 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.
13
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).
Item 3 discloses: (1) affiliate lease dispute at American Dream Mall (pending); (2) trademark infringement suit against Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop (pending); (3) three unpaid royalties suits against franchisees (one default judgment, two settlements); (4) four historical judgments against former affiliate R&S Ventures for nonpayment of rent.
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
Subject: an officer. An officer’s own bankruptcy or a company an officer ran, not the franchisor’s
Biagio Scotto (President) was president of Villa Pizza Specialties, Inc. (Texas), which filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy case #15-31057 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court – District of New Jersey; case closed February 14, 2017.
Audited financials (Item 21)
Yes · Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP
Franchisor revenue (Item 21)
Franchisor entity revenue (not unit-level)
Item 21 audited statements of operations for FYE Dec 31, 2023. Total revenues $717,601 = royalties $643,409 + advertising fund revenues $60,608 + franchise/transfer fees $13,584. Other income = interest income $8,787. Auditor report signed from Florham Park, NJ dated March 22, 2024; firm name not present in extracted text. Entity is Everything Yogurt Brands, LLC (parent of multiple concepts including Green Leaf's).
ⓘ These are the parent company's consolidated financials (the parent guarantees the franchisor), not this brand's standalone results — the figure reflects the whole corporate group, not this brand alone.
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: Yes
- Kickbacks from required suppliers: Yes
- Must buy proprietary products: Yes
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
- Can negotiate own supplier terms: No
Score breakdown · what drove the 50 / 100 verdict
- 01MEDUnit count declined 12.5% YoY (23 units) indicating system contraction and franchisee attrition
- 02MINORMultiple settled/default judgments against former franchisees for unpaid royalties suggest cash flow problems across the system
- 03HIGHPending litigation on mall leases and trademark infringement creates operational and brand risk
- 04MINORNo net income disclosure despite $886k average revenue raises profitability questions
- 05MINORUnprotected territory enables cannibalization and unfair competition between franchisees
- 06MINORHistory of judgments against affiliate entity for unpaid rent indicates corporate financial instability
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 6.0% 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 | 10 years |
| Allowed renewalsℹ | 1 |
| Territory type | Protected territory |
| Protected territory | Yes |
| Exclusive territoryℹ | No |
| Online sales rightsℹ | Granted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Optional |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 2 years |
| Non-compete (miles)ℹ | 5 mi |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| Transfer requires consent | Yes |
| Termination notice | 30 days |
| Mandatory arbitration | No |
| Jury trial waiver | No |
| Governing law | NJ |
| Litigation count | 9 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
Item 3 discloses: (1) affiliate lease dispute at American Dream Mall (pending); (2) trademark infringement suit against Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop (pending); (3) three unpaid royalties suits against franchisees (one default judgment, two settlements); (4) four historical judgments against former affiliate R&S Ventures for nonpayment of rent.
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 12 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 133 hrs
- Training location
- Bethlehem, PA or another designated training facility
- Ongoing training
- Required
- Field support
- 133 hrs/yr
- On-site visits per year
- Time to open
- 9 mo
- From signing to launch
- Site selection
- Franchisee selects, franchisor approves
- Franchisor financing
- Not offered
- Item 10
- POS system
- Oracle/Simphony
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: Oracle/Simphony
Item 20 · call current owners
Franchisee Contacts
24 owners to call
Name · phone · city · state. Extracted from FDD Item 20
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to open a Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt franchise?
The total investment to open a Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt franchise ranges from $285K – $484K, with an initial franchise fee of $25K. This includes real estate, equipment, inventory, and working capital as disclosed in their Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
What do Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt franchise owners earn?
According to Item 19 of the Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt FDD, the average gross sales per unit is $886K. The median is $702K. Note: this is gross revenue, not profit. Actual owner earnings vary based on location, operating costs, and management.
Who owns Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt?
Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt is franchised by Everything Yogurt Brands, LLC. Its parent company is Villa Pizza, Inc.. Source: FDD Item 1, 2024 filing.
What is Item 19 in the Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt 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 Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt's franchise failure rate?
SBA 7(a) loan charge-off data is not available for Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt (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 Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt has 23 total units in the United States, including 14 franchised units and 9 company-owned units. 1 new units were opened in the latest reporting year.
Is Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads / Bananas Smoothies & Frozen Yogurt as a B-grade franchise with a verdict score of 50 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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Data extracted from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) loan disclosures (FOIA). This information is provided for research purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Verify all figures with the franchisor's current Franchise Disclosure Document before making any investment decision.