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European Wax Center

European Wax Center

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retail other · Plano, TX
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Total to open · Item 7
$350K–$554K
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
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Beyond the filing

Everything else on this page is quoted from European Wax Center'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
4.8 / 5
19,896 Google reviews across 20 locations
Website health
10 / 10
Basic checks: HTTPS, mobile viewport, speed, metadata. Most sites clear them
Store locator
Yes
Their site has a finder that sends customers to their nearest branch — how walk-in trade reaches a franchisee
iPhone app
4.4 / 5
8,818 App Store ratings · European Wax Center
Android app
Yes
Play Store link published on their own site. Google offers no free ratings API, so there is no score to show
Google returns at most twenty locations for a search, so the rating is a sample of European Wax Center's outlets rather than all of them. Measured Sep 11, 2026.

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Every figure on this page comes from European Wax Center's own disclosure filings, source linked. Compare it against its category before any discovery call — and read the FDD with an attorney before signing anything.

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Opening a European Wax Center: $350K–$554K
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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.

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What it really costs

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

Total initial investment · Item 7$350K–$554K
$0$1.0M
ExpenseLowHigh
Initial franchise fee$45,000$45,000
Total initial investment$349,600$553,950

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 73% of retail other franchises on this site with a disclosed Item 7 range (58 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 retail other 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.

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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 European Wax Center franchise cost?

European Wax Center's most recent Franchise Disclosure Document puts the total estimated initial investment at $350K–$554K. 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.

Facts on this page are sourced from a third-party archive's copy of European Wax Center's Franchise Disclosure Document, not filed with us directly — treat figures here as one step further from the original filing.

Item 5 fee of $45,000 is for new franchisees; existing franchisees pay $36,000 (not captured in single-value schema). A separate multi-unit development agreement investment range of $72,000-$207,000 also exists in the document. Items 3, 4, 6, 12, 17, 19, 20 were referenced in the document but not shown in the free preview, so left null.