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Duck Donuts

food and beverage · HQ Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania · Founded 2007 · Franchising since 2013
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
$353K–$573K
FDD Item 7
Franchise fee
$40,000
FDD Item 5
Royalty
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$40,000$40,000
Total initial investment$353,350$573,000

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.

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.
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 Duck Donuts's Franchise Disclosure Document. Source: https://franchisepanda.com/download-franchise-disclosure-document-preview/duck-donuts/2020

Source is a 2020 FDD preview (issued March 11, 2020), not the current FDD, and only a partial excerpt was returned (Items 6, 3, 4, 12, 17, 19, 20 not in the fetched content). Item 5 fee is $40,000 for single-unit, $30,000 for multi-unit optioned locations — used the single-unit figure. Item 7 range given is for single-unit ($353,350-$573,000); a slightly lower optioned-location range ($343,350-$563,000) also appears in the source but was not used. Current (2025/2026) FDD exists per search results (restfinance.com Duck-Donuts-2024.pdf; MN CARDS 'Duck Donuts FDD 2026 B') but could not be fetched (429/403 errors).