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Dogtopia

pet care · HQ Phoenix, Arizona · Founded 2005 · Franchising since 2005
Partial FDD dataUnclaimed profile
Factbook Score: pending
Brand has 0 year(s) of Item 20 history in our current extraction; needs 3+ to compute a Factbook Score. Per methodology, this shows as 'Score pending — insufficient history', never a penalized score. See the methodology — this score can never be bought.
Data-integrity flags on this profile
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Total initial investment
$543K–$1399K
FDD Item 7
Franchise fee
$49,500
FDD Item 5
Royalty
7%
+ 2% brand fund
Franchised units
3-yr unit growth
CAGR from Item 20
Owner turnover
3-yr average, Item 20

What it really costs

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

ExpenseLowHigh
Initial franchise fee$49,500$49,500
Total initial investment$543,095$1,399,180

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.

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.

Legal history

CLEAR
No bankruptcy disclosures for the franchisor or its officers.
2 CASES
(1) HotBox Enterprises/franchisee Jamie Weeks dispute, settled Feb 2022 with a $2,700,000 promissory note; (2) Kimberly Hamm v. Dogtopia Enterprises, employment dispute filed May 2024 over Long-Term Incentive Plan units.
NOT DISCLOSED
Non-compete term/radius wasn't separately quantified in the filing excerpt we have on file.

Profile changelog

Jul 30 Initial FDD data extracted (partial) — M0 pipeline batch

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Facts on this page are sourced from Dogtopia's Franchise Disclosure Document. Source: https://getfdd.com/demo/documents/dogtopia-fdd.pdf

Item 5 fee is $49,500 standard (discounted to $44,550 for multi-unit/first-center veteran franchisees, $40,095 for subsequent veteran centers). Item 6: 7% royalty, 2% brand fund (may rise to 3%), plus a separate 2% local marketing commitment and a $899-$1,174/month post-opening technology fee. Item 7: $543,095-$1,399,180 for a single center; $641,600-$1,577,380 for a 3-5 center area development commitment. Item 12: territory is explicitly NOT exclusively protected - the FDD states the franchisor/other franchisees may compete within a granted territory. Item 19: the FDD states no financial performance representation figures are given; franchisees are directed to contact current/former franchisees instead. Item 17 and Item 20 tables exist in the document but their specific numbers were not retrievable via the fetch tool in two attempts.