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Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora)

Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora)

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Breakfast/Brunch · Montreal, QC · Founded 1987 · Franchising since 1994
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Total to open · Item 7
$500K–$750K
Franchise fee · Item 5
$45,000
Included in the total above
Owner turnover
Awaiting Item 20 extraction
Factbook Score
Pending
Brand has 0 year(s) of Item 20 history in our current extraction
No Item 19 earnings dataPre-confidence-scoring extractionWhy these flags?

Beyond the filing

Everything else on this page is quoted from Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora)'s franchise disclosure document. This is not — it is measured off the open web, it is not verified by the franchisor, and it never affects the Factbook Score.

Customer rating
4.2 / 5
20,251 Google reviews across 15 locations
Best to worst location
3.9 – 4.3
Where this brand's locations sit on the same scale — the gap is what varies between franchisees
Website health
10 / 10
Basic checks: HTTPS, mobile viewport, speed, metadata. Most sites clear them
Google returns at most twenty locations for a search, so the rating is a sample of Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora)'s outlets rather than all of them. The site on file for Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora) is its franchise-recruitment site rather than its consumer site, so locator and app checks would say nothing about the brand and are not shown. Measured Sep 11, 2026.

Seen advertising or featured on: BeTheBoss.ca. Noted for provenance — paid placement elsewhere has no bearing on anything shown here.

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Opening a Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora): $500K–$750K
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These figures predate our extraction-confidence scoring

They were captured before we began scoring extraction confidence, so we can't put a number on them. They remain sourced — the filing is linked below. We publish the score rather than hiding it — see the methodology.

Royalty
6%
+ 3% brand fund
Franchised units
3-yr unit growth
CAGR from Item 20

What it really costs

Every cost figure this brand's filing discloses — not just the headline range

Total initial investment · Item 7$500K–$750K
$0$1.0M
ExpenseLowHigh
Initial franchise fee$45,000$45,000
Total initial investment$500,001$750,000

Item 7 reports a total range, not a full line-item breakdown, in this brand's filing excerpt — the franchise fee is the only cost we can show separately today.

Costs more to open than 61% of food and beverage franchises on this site with a disclosed Item 7 range (372 compared). Computed from total investment, not a figure from the filing itself.

Earnings disclosure

Does the franchisor share performance data? No

This brand's filing does not include an Item 19 financial performance representation. That's common — a large share of franchisors disclose nothing here — but it means you should ask for unit-level economics directly during discovery calls. Compare against food and beverage brands that do disclose one.

Legal history

CLEAR
No bankruptcy disclosures for the franchisor or its officers.
NOT DISCLOSED
Non-compete term/radius wasn't separately quantified in the filing excerpt we have on file.

Tell me when Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora) files something new

Franchisors refile every year, and fees, investment ranges and closure counts move between filings. We'll email you when this brand's figures change — nothing else, and never a sales sequence.

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Common questions

Answered from this brand's own FDD filing. Where the filing is silent, the question is left out rather than answered with a guess.

How much does a Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora) franchise cost?

Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora)'s most recent Franchise Disclosure Document puts the total estimated initial investment at $500K–$750K. That is Item 7, which covers everything needed to open — the franchise fee, build-out, equipment, opening inventory and initial working capital. The initial franchise fee itself is $45,000, and is included in that range.

What royalty does Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora) charge?

Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora) charges a continuing royalty of 6% of gross sales, disclosed in Item 6. A separate brand or advertising fund contribution of 3% applies on top. Royalties are charged on revenue, not profit, so they are owed whether or not the outlet is profitable.

Does Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora) disclose earnings (Item 19)?

No. Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora) makes no financial performance representation in its FDD. Item 19 is the only optional item under the FTC Franchise Rule, so omitting it is lawful and common — but it means the franchisor publishes no revenue or profit figures for its outlets, and any figure quoted elsewhere is not from the filing.

Facts on this page are sourced from a third-party archive's copy of Cora (Cora Breakfast & Lunch / Chez Cora)'s Franchise Disclosure Document, not filed with us directly — treat figures here as one step further from the original filing.

BeTheBoss.ca states '130+ restaurants' currently operating, franchising since 1994, described as 'Canada's leading breakfast and lunch restaurant chain.' Canada has no centralized public FDD registry (unlike WI/MN/CA in the US), so this directory listing is the best available public source; no litigation, territory, or Item 19 data was found.