Scoop Soldiers Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
- Investment
- $64K – $123K
- Disclosed sales
- $170K
- gross sales, not profit
- SBA charge-off
- Not SBA-matched
Data from FDD filing
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
Scoop Soldiers is a pet-services franchise providing recurring pet-waste removal and yard cleanup for homeowners, HOAs, and communities. Franchisees run a route-based service scheduling visits and cleaning yards within a territory.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A Scoop Soldiers franchise requires a total initial investment of $64K – $123K, including a $40K franchise fee and an ongoing 16.0% royalty[2]. Per the 2026 FDD, average revenue per territory was $170K. This franchisor reports Item 19 per territory rather than per outlet, so the figure is not comparable with per-outlet averages[2]. FranchiseVerdict grade: A (Strongest tier), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Sources, dates and evidence
FDD issued: · Data extracted: · Last cited check: · Staleness risk: low - issued within the last 12 months
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 scored8 of 8 headline figures on this page cite a page of the filing.
Overview
- Investment
- $64K – $123K
- 16th pct Pet Services
- Avg gross sales
- $170K
- Per territory, not per outlet
- Royalty
- 16.0%
- 88th pct Pet Services
- Units
- 115
- 81st pct Pet Services
- SBA charge-off
- N/A
Quick verdict · Pet Services · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Pet Services 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 $64K – $123K including a $40K franchise fee, 16.0% ongoing royalty.
- RETURNSAverage revenue per territory of $170K/year (median $129K). Averaged per territory, not per outlet - not comparable with per-outlet figures.
- RISKVerdict A (Strongest tier), verdict score 81/100 (higher is better).
- GROWTHFlat: no net change in franchised outlets in the latest year (3 opened, 3 closed); 1 signed but not yet open (Item 20).
- GROWTHSystem growing at 74.5% CAGR over 3 years with 115 total units. Strong expansion trajectory.
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- Scoop Soldiers Franchise Company, LLC
- Predecessor
- Pooper Troopers USA, LLC ("Poop Troops")
- Prior franchisor entity
- CEO title
- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Ernest "E.J." McCoy, Jr.
- Incorporated in
- Texas
- HQ
- 3245 Main Street, Suite 235-208, Frisco, Texas 75034
- Auditor
- Haynie & Company
- Audited financials
- Franchisor revenue
- $4.2M
- vs $3.4M prior year
Overview
About
- CEO
- Ernest "E.J." McCoy, Jr.
- Headquarters
- TX
- Founded
- 2019
- FDD year
- 2026
- States available
- 13
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 71% below the typical pet services franchise.
Source: FDD 2026 · Items 5–7
FDD Item 7 · 2026 filing
Initial investment breakdown
| Cost component | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Initial franchise fee | $40K | $40K |
| Working capital (3–6 mo) | $10K | $15K |
| Equipment, build-out, other | $15K | $68K |
| Total initial investment | $64K | $123K |
Source: Scoop Soldiers 2026 FDD, Items 5 and 7[2]. “Equipment, build-out, other” is computed as total minus disclosed line items above.
Item 7 · what it costs to open + operate
The Vitals
- Total investment
- $64K – $123K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $10K – $15K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $40K – $40K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Royalty
- 16.0%
- typical 6–8%
- Ad fund
- 2.0%
- typical 3–5%
- Total fee load
- 18.0%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty | 16.0% of gross sales |
| Marketing / ad fund | 2.0% of gross sales |
| Technology fee | $500 |
| Transfer fee | $2K |
| Renewal fee | $2K |
| Inventory (initial) | $500 – $1K |
| Total fee load | 18.0% of rev |
At 18.0% total fee load, roughly $31K per year per territory goes to the franchisor before you pay a single operating expense.
What do units actually make?
Average unit sales run 72% below the pet services norm.
Averaged per territory, not per outlet - not comparable with per-outlet figures
Source: FDD 2026 · 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 Scoop Soldiers 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
$106K
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 Scoop Soldiers 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: 2026 FDD
Financial Performance
Averaged per territory, not per outlet - not comparable with per-outlet figures
- Avg gross sales
- $170K
- Per territory, per year — not per outlet
- Median gross sales
- $129K
- Per territory, not per outlet
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
- 92 territories
- vs category median 12 · large
- Range (low → high)
- $12K→$638KCited, not corroborated — printed on page 56 of the 2026 FDD. Nothing else in our record independently restates or re-derives it.
- Cohort dispersion (min → max)
- Reporting year
- 2025
- Fiscal year the figures cover
- Source filing
- FDD 2026
- Disclosed in the 2026 filing, covering 2025
- Transparency
- 4 / 10
- vs category median 4 / 10 · typical
Compared against 69 Pet Services brands
Operator outlook
What the numbers say
Data-driven interpretation of this brand's financial disclosures, fee structure, and system trajectory.
Unit economics
The average territory generates $170K/year in gross sales. Median is $129K — top performers pull the average up, so a typical unit earns less.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 18.0% — above the Pet Services median of 8.0%.
Disclosure
Transparency score 4/10 — this franchisor discloses detailed breakdowns (quartiles, segments, or cohort data). Buyers can model unit economics with higher confidence.
Operator retention
System expanding at 74.5% CAGR over 3 years across 115 units — operators are staying and new ones are joining.
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 Pet Services medians
How Scoop Soldiers Compares
Per territory, not per outlet - the category median is per-outlet only, so no comparison is shown
Category median of published Pet Services 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 2026 · Item 20
Unit growth
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
- Total units
- 115
- Opened
- 3
- Last reporting year
- Closed
- 3
- Terminated
- 0
- Franchisor ended the franchise (per Item 20)
- Non-renewed
- 0
- Term expired, not renewed (per Item 20)
- Turnover rate
- 2.6%
- Company-owned
- 19
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 83%
- vs corporate-owned
- Net growth (3-yr)
- +74.5%
- Net unit change over 3 years
- 3-yr CAGR
- +74.5%
- Compounded over last 3 years
Last fiscal year · Item 20 exits and transfers
- Terminated
- 0
- Not renewed
- 0
- Transferred
- 0
- Reacquired
- 3
- Franchisor bought back
- Signed, not yet open
- 1
- 0.01 per open outlet · Item 20 Table 5
- Projected new
- 24
- Franchisor's next-year forecast
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 (plaintiff).
Scoop Soldiers Service Company, LLC filed a trademark infringement suit against Top Paw Distributing LLC, Top Paw LLC, and Carl Gregory (D. Ariz., Case No. 2:24-vs-02752-JZB) over unauthorized use of a confusingly similar domain name; settled February 28, 2025.
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
None disclosed
Audited financials (Item 21)
Yes · Haynie & Company
Franchisor revenue (Item 21)
Franchisor entity revenue (not unit-level)
Item 21 states audited financial statements for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are attached as Exhibit D, but the actual financial statement exhibit (balance sheet, income statement, auditor's report) is not present in the extracted FDD text; no franchisor financial figures or auditor name could be captured. Item 19 figures reported are 2025 Gross Sales for the 92 Operational Franchise Territories (Table 6): Average $170,283, Median $128,591, High $638,317, Low $12,214. Company-owned outlets (Table 3) separately showed Avg $148,111 / Median $141,641.
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: Yes
- Must buy proprietary products: Yes
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
Score breakdown · what drove the 81 / 100 verdict
- 01HIGHSole litigation is an offensive trademark suit it filed, now settled
- 02MINORNo bankruptcy or going-concern
- 03MED115 units, strong growth, audited, Item 19 disclosed
- 04MEDNo franchisor financials disclosed (minor)
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 18.0% of sales (royalty + ad fund), before rent and labor.
Source: FDD 2026 · 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 | No territory protection |
| Protected territory | No |
| Exclusive territoryℹ | No |
| Territory sizeℹ | Approximately 400,000 to 600,000 people (Base Territory), non-exclusive; franchisor reserves broad rights |
| Online sales rights | Restricted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Required |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 2 years |
| Non-compete (miles)ℹ | 25 mi |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| Transfer requires consent | Yes |
| Termination notice | 30 days |
| Mandatory arbitration | Yes |
| Arbitration location | Collin County, Texas |
| Jury trial waiver | Yes |
| Governing law | Texas |
| Litigation count | 1 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
Scoop Soldiers Service Company, LLC filed a trademark infringement suit against Top Paw Distributing LLC, Top Paw LLC, and Carl Gregory (D. Ariz., Case No. 2:24-vs-02752-JZB) over unauthorized use of a confusingly similar domain name; settled February 28, 2025.
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 28 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 11 hrs
- Franchisor financing
- Offered
- Item 10
- POS system
- Business Management System
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: Business Management System
Item 20 · call current owners
Franchisee Contacts
22 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 Scoop Soldiers franchise?
The total investment to open a Scoop Soldiers franchise ranges from $64K – $123K, with an initial franchise fee of $40K. This includes real estate, equipment, inventory, and working capital as disclosed in their Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
What do Scoop Soldiers franchise owners earn?
According to Item 19 of the Scoop Soldiers FDD, the average gross sales per unit is $170K. The median is $129K. Important context: Averaged per territory, not per outlet - not comparable with per-outlet figures. Note: this is gross revenue, not profit. Actual owner earnings vary based on location, operating costs, and management.
Who owns Scoop Soldiers?
Scoop Soldiers is franchised by Scoop Soldiers Franchise Company, LLC. Source: FDD Item 1, 2026 filing.
What is Item 19 in the Scoop Soldiers 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 Scoop Soldiers FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is Scoop Soldiers's franchise failure rate?
SBA 7(a) loan charge-off data is not available for Scoop Soldiers (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 Scoop Soldiers franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, Scoop Soldiers has 115 total units in the United States, including 96 franchised units and 19 company-owned units. 3 new units were opened in the latest reporting year.
Is Scoop Soldiers a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates Scoop Soldiers as a A-grade franchise with a verdict score of 81 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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