Pressed Roots Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
Data from FDD filing
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
Pressed Roots is a hair salon franchise operating studios that specialize in silk-press blowouts and styling for textured and curly hair. Franchisees run the studios, managing stylists, appointments, and retail.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A Pressed Roots franchise requires a total initial investment of $476K – $800K, including a $50K franchise fee and an ongoing 5.0% royalty[2]. The 2025 FDD does not disclose unit-level revenue (no Item 19). FranchiseVerdict grade: D (Below average), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Data last verified · figures per the 2025 FDD issuance
Overview
- Investment
- $476K – $800K
- 47th pct Personal Care…
- Avg gross sales
- N/A
- Company-owned only
- Royalty
- 5.0%
- 2nd pct Personal Care…
- Units
- 4
- 11th pct Personal Care…
- SBA charge-off
- N/A
Quick verdict · Personal Care & Beauty · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Personal Care & Beauty avg · 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 $476K – $800K including a $50K franchise fee, 5.0% ongoing royalty.
- RETURNSAn earlier version of this note quoted a dollar figure that APPEARS NOWHERE IN THE FILING - verified in comma, no-comma and period-for-comma form and against a de-punctuated digit stream, across every page. It was our own arithmetic published as the franchisor's disclosure. Item 19 discloses three outlets in one period, so the range is genuine and stays.
- RISKVerdict D (Below average), verdict score 38/100 (higher is better).
- FLAGBankruptcy history disclosed in the FDD. Review Item 4 for details before proceeding.
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- Pressed Roots Franchise Co.
- Parent company
- Pressed Roots Holdings Inc.
- CEO title
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Piersten Gaines
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- HQ
- 5600 West Lovers Lane, Suite 116-195, Dallas, Texas 75209
- Auditor
- Metwally CPA PLLC
- Unaudited
- Franchisor revenue
- $0
- Most recent fiscal year
Affiliated brands
- has not in the past and does not now offer franchises in any lines of business
- Pressed Roots
- operates a Pressed Roots Studio similar to the Franchised Business in Plano
- maintains a pr
- Is the parent company of Pressed Roots
- Pressed Roots Dallas
Other brands the franchisor or its parent operates (Item 1).
Overview
About
- CEO
- Piersten Gaines
- Headquarters
- TX
- Founded
- 2025
- FDD year
- 2025
- States available
- 1
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 22% above the typical personal care & beauty franchise.
Source: FDD 2025 · Items 5–7
Full Item 7 breakdown16 line items
Initial investment breakdown
| Line item | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Feenot refundable | $50K | $50K | |
| Initial Training Feenot refundable | $10K | $10K | |
| Travel for Initial Training | $0 | $4K | |
| Lease and Utility Deposits | $5K | $15K | |
| Rent - Three Months | $12K | $32K | |
| Design, Architecture, and Engineering | $8K | $13K | |
| Leasehold Improvements | $203K | $393K | |
| Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment | $105K | $155K | |
| Permits and Permit Management | $5K | $9K | |
| Signage | $13K | $18K | |
| Initial Inventory | $10K | $18K | |
| Computer, Software, and Point of Sale System | $5K | $8K | |
| Insurance Deposits - Three Months | $2K | $2K | |
| Grand Opening Marketing | $15K | $20K | |
| Professional Fees and Business Permits | $4K | $6K | |
| Additional Funds - Three Months | $40K | $60K | |
| Total initial investment | $486K | $810K |
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
- $476K – $800K
- Middle of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $40K – $60K
- Middle of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $50K – $50K
- Middle of category vs category
- Royalty
- 5.0%
- percentage_of_gross · typical 6–8%
- Ad fund
- 2.0%
- typical 3–5%
- Total fee load
- 7.0%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty | 5.0% of gross sales |
| Marketing / ad fund | 2.0% of gross sales |
| Technology fee | $500 |
| Training fee | $500 |
| Transfer fee | $20K |
| Renewal fee | $10K |
| Total fee load | 7.0% of rev |
What do units actually make?
Source: FDD 2025 · Item 19
ROI & LBO modelsSingle-unit · 25-unit portfolio · editable
Pressed Roots did not disclose financial performance in FDD Item 19. The ROIC and return models require Item 19 revenue. Without it all inputs are estimates. You can still run the calculator with your own assumptions by entering an expected revenue figure.
Returns model · single-unit ROIC
What would one Pressed Roots unit return on the cash you put in?
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
Estimated return on your total franchise investment, before any debt financing.
25%
Below the 30–60% attractive-franchise band
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: 2025 FDD
Financial Performance
An earlier version of this note quoted a dollar figure that APPEARS NOWHERE IN THE FILING - verified in comma, no-comma and period-for-comma form and against a de-punctuated digit stream, across every page. It was our own arithmetic published as the franchisor's disclosure. Item 19 discloses three outlets in one period, so the range is genuine and stays.
Company-owned outlets only - not franchisee performance
- Item 19 type
- Actual (Company-owned outlets)
- Sample size
- 3 outlets
- vs category median 38 · small
- Range (low → high)
- $1.0M→$1.4M
- Cohort dispersion (min → max)
- Source filing
- FDD 2025
- The FDD edition these figures were read from
- Transparency
- 4 / 10
- vs category median 4 / 10 · typical
Compared against 179 Personal Care & Beauty brands
Operator outlook
What the numbers say
Data-driven interpretation of this brand's financial disclosures, fee structure, and system trajectory.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 7.0% (near the Personal Care & Beauty average).
Disclosure
Item 19 reports Actual (Company-owned outlets) rather than annual gross sales, so unit revenue is not directly comparable.
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 Personal Care & Beauty averages
How Pressed Roots Compares
Is the system healthy?
Source: FDD 2025 · Item 20
Unit growth
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
- Total units
- 4
- 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
- 0.0%
- Company-owned
- 4
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 0%
- vs corporate-owned
3-year detail · Item 20
- Opened (3yr)
- 0
- Closed (3yr)
- 0
- Terminated (3yr)
- 0
- Non-renewed (3yr)
- 0
- Transfers (3yr)
- 0
- Reacquired (3yr)
- 0
- Franchisor bought back
- Projected new
- 0
- Franchisor's next-year forecast
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)
0 case reference(s): 0 pending, 0 settled.
Largest disclosed settlement: $50,000
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
Disclosed in last 7 years
Bankruptcy,” is supplemented by the addition of the following: No entity or person listed in Items 1 and 2 of this Disclosure Document has, at any time during the previous 10 fiscal years (a) filed for bankruptcy protection, (b) been adjudged bankrupt, (c) been reorganized due to insolvency, or (d)
Audited financials (Item 21)
No audited financials on file
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: No
- Must buy proprietary products: No
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
Score breakdown · what drove the 38 / 100 verdict
- 01MINORFinancials NOT audited
- 02MINOR4 units, 0 franchised (unproven model)
- 03MINORNew franchisor (2025)
- 04MEDItem 19 disclosed, no litigation
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 7.0% of sales (royalty + ad fund), before rent and labor.
Source: FDD 2025 · 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 | Radius/Geographic |
| Protected territory | Yes |
| Online sales rights | Restricted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Required |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 3 years |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| Termination notice | 30 days |
| Termination groundsℹ | 1 |
| Curable defaultsℹ | 3 |
| Mandatory arbitration | Yes |
| Jury trial waiver | Yes |
| Governing law | Texas |
| Litigation count | 0 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
0 case reference(s): 0 pending, 0 settled.
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 42 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 58 hrs
- Training location
- On-site and corporate
- POS system
- Zenoti
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: Zenoti
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to open a Pressed Roots franchise?
The total investment to open a Pressed Roots franchise ranges from $476K – $800K, 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 Pressed Roots franchise owners earn?
Pressed Roots does not disclose average franchise owner earnings in their FDD Item 19. Not all franchisors are required to make financial performance representations. We recommend asking existing franchisees directly about their financial experience.
What is Item 19 in the Pressed Roots 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 Pressed Roots FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is Pressed Roots's franchise failure rate?
SBA 7(a) loan charge-off data is not available for Pressed Roots (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 Pressed Roots franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, Pressed Roots has 4 total units in the United States, including 0 franchised units and 4 company-owned units.
Is Pressed Roots a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates Pressed Roots as a D-grade franchise with a verdict score of 38 out of 100 (higher is better), based on our analysis of investment costs, revenue data, SBA loan performance, and growth trends. 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.
For franchisors
Are you the franchisor?
If you represent Pressed Roots, you can request corrections or provide updated information.
Other Personal Care & Beauty franchises
Compare similar franchise opportunities in the Personal Care & Beauty category
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.