The Scoop N Scootery
Bottom line
- Total investment $156K – $305K including a $40K franchise fee, 5.0% ongoing royalty.
- Average unit revenue of $1.5M/year. Estimated payback in 1.0 years.
- Rated MODERATE with a risk score of 60/100. SBA loan default rate of 0.0% across 1 loans (below the industry average).
- Emerging franchise — only 1 year of franchising with 3 units. Early-stage systems carry higher risk but may offer better territory availability.
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Yale framework · single-unit ROIC
Returns Analysis
Pulls Item 7 (investment) and Item 19 (revenue) from this brand's FDD into the Yale unlevered-ROIC formula. Override any input to stress-test it against your own assumptions.
The model · Yale framework
What would one The Scoop N Scootery unit return on the cash you put in?
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
69%
Above typical band (30–60%)
Levered LBO scenario · Yale Crease Capital framing
What would 25 The Scoop N Scootery units return on equity?
Equity IRR · 5-yr
49.9%
7.57× MOIC
Year-1 DSCR
1.88×
EBITDA ÷ debt service
Equity required
$1.5M
on $7.5M purchase
Total debt
$6.0M
SBA $3.8M + senior + seller note
Overview
About
Franchisees operate ice cream/frozen dessert retail shops ("Scoop") combined with scooter rentals or sales ("Scootery"), serving customers in a protected territory. Day-to-day operations include managing inventory of ice cream/frozen products, staffing the retail counter, maintaining scooters, processing rentals/sales, and handling point-of-sale transactions.
Item 7 · what it costs
The Vitals
Item 19
Financial Performance
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 20 · 14 states with active franchisees
The Territory Map
Derived from franchisee contact records. Shows states with at least one current operator — not where the franchisor is registered to sell new units (that data is re-extracting in a future refresh).
States derived from franchisee phone area codes (Item 20). Approximate — ported numbers may show the original state, not the franchisee's current location.
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA 7(a) loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 5, 6, 12, 17
Risk & Legal
Extremely early-stage system with financial opacity (no Item 19), questionable franchisor stability (Going Concern = False), and insufficient franchisee references to validate earnings claims.
Score breakdown · what drove the 60 / 100 rating
- 01MEDOnly 3 units in system with unknown/undisclosed growth trajectory — indicates early-stage or stalled expansion
- 02HIGHGoing Concern status is FALSE — suggests franchisor may have financial stability issues or is winding down
- 03MEDNo Item 19 (financial performance representations) disclosed — cannot independently verify claimed $240k avg net income
- 04MINORHigh investment range ($155.5k–$304.9k) relative to only 3 operating units creates survivor bias risk
- 05MINORMinimal franchisee pool (3 units) limits ability to validate real earnings claims or get candid reference calls
- 06MINORUnknown unit growth rate suggests franchisor is either not tracking/disclosing performance or system is not expanding
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
FDD Items 5, 6, 12, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
Item 11
Training & Operations
Item 20
Franchisee Contacts
Phone numbers extracted directly from this brand's FDD Item 20. After purchase, you'll also receive a list of validation questions tailored to this brand.
Franchisee contacts
14 numbers
One-time purchase · CSV download · Validation questions included
FDD download
The Scoop N Scootery · FDD (2025) PDF