This ROI tool is not a model of your franchise. The FDD discloses gross sales, not profit, and no FDD discloses your cost of goods, labor, rent or owner pay. Inputs marked “not set” are yours to supply: take them from lease quotes, a payroll plan and calls with current franchisees. Nothing here is investment advice.

Yale framework · 5-tool workbench

Run any brand through Yale's five franchise frameworks.

Pick a brand to pre-fill all five calculators with FDD data, or run them with the default values to feel out the math first. Cited sources: Mistretta & Wasserstein, Beck & Wasserstein, and Shantz & Wasserstein · Yale SOM 2023–2024.

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Returns model · single-unit ROIC

What would one your target brand unit return on the cash you put in?

Not set — you supply itYou overrode an FDD value

Revenue · per unit, per yearnot set

Item 19 not disclosed. Enter your own revenue assumption

Franchisor take · royalty + ad fundnot set

Royaltynot settyp 6–8%

Ad fundnot settyp 3–5%

Operating costs · not in any FDDnot set

COGSnot set

Labornot set

Rent / occupancynot set

Other operatingnot set

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.

Total invested capital · what you put in to opennot set

Initial investmentnot set

No Item 7 range on file. Enter your own

Working capitalnot set

Item 7 didn't break this out. Enter your pre-opening cash burn

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 annual revenue, royalty rate, ad fund rate, COGS, labour, rent / occupancy, other operating costs, initial investment and working capital, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.

Store EBITDA · annual

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EBITDA margin

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Total invested

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Payback

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Single-unit only. A multi-unit portfolio gives up roughly 5–15% of this to shared services (corporate G&A) before reaching the ~10-unit break-even point.

These tools implement frameworks from Yale SOM case studies on franchise investing for educational and analytical purposes only. Figures marked FDD come from the brand's filing; every other input is one you supply. Outputs are your own model, not our estimate of your returns, and not investment advice. An FDD discloses gross sales, which is not profit.