2026 FDD Item 19, p. 36 Checked Oct 23, 2026
Culver's Franchise Revenue (2026 FDD)
In Item 19 of its 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Culver's reports average gross sales for franchised restaurants open full year of $4,142,737 (2025, 988 franchised restaurants open all 12 months in 2025). The figures below are selected disclosures, not a substitute for reading the full Item 19.
Startup cost: a Culver's franchise costs an estimated $3,406,350 – $10,294,100 to open (Item 7). See the full Culver's franchise cost breakdown.
Does Culver's Item 19 show profit or owner pay?
No. Culver's Item 19 reports sales but no profit, costs or owner pay. Rent, payroll, supplies, loan payments and Item 6 fees such as the royalty (4% of Gross Sales) come out of sales before an owner is paid, so these figures cannot show what an owner earns.
What Culver's discloses (Item 19)
Source: Culver's 2026 FDD, Item 19, PDF p. 36.
| Figure | Value | Period | Based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average gross sales for franchised restaurants open full year | $4,142,737 | 2025 | 988 franchised restaurants open all 12 months in 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 37) |
| Median gross sales for franchised restaurants open full year | $4,036,492 | 2025 | 988 franchised restaurants open all 12 months in 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 37) |
| Lower bound of the top sales bracket ($5,500,000 and above) | $5,500,000 | 2025 | 78 franchised restaurants generated $5,500,000 or more in 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 37) |
| Highest gross sales among reporting franchised restaurants | $9,030,702 | 2025 | Top performing franchised restaurant in 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 37) |
| Lowest gross sales among reporting franchised restaurants | $1,103,114 | 2025 | Lowest performing franchised restaurant in 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 37) |
Item 19 sample and definitions
Item 19 Table 1 (PDF page 37) covers 988 franchised restaurants open for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2025. Average Sales were $4,142,737 and median $4,036,492; 450/46% met or exceeded average. Seventy-eight restaurants fall in the $5,500,000-and-above bracket; that threshold is not an individual sales result. Company-owned restaurant operating figures appear separately in Table 2 and are not franchisee profit.
How to interpret Culver's Item 19 figures and sample limits · What Item 19 does and does not show about owner pay.
Fee illustration using reported sales
Calculated fee illustration using Item 6 and Item 19, not an FDD profit disclosure or owner-income estimate.
Source: Culver's 2026 FDD, Item 6 (fee inputs), PDF p. 13.
The selected annual sales metric supports the illustration below. Other Item 19 rows can cover different periods or samples and are not interchangeable inputs. Sales remaining after these fees still have to cover operating costs.
| Sales figure | Sales | Fees to franchisor & marketing | Left for all other costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average gross sales for franchised restaurants open full year2025 · 988 franchised restaurants open all 12 months in 2025 | $4,142,737 | $269,278 | $3,873,459 |
The range uses the recorded recurring fee ranges. Rent, payroll, cost of goods, loan payments and taxes still come out of the last column. The sales sample’s results do not predict a new outlet’s results.
Scope of these figures: The selected Culver's disclosures above retain their recorded periods and samples. The lead figure covers 988 franchised restaurants open all 12 months in 2025. They do not establish take-home owner income or the results of a new outlet. Read the linked Item 19 for the franchisor's definitions and exclusions.
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Sources
Culver Franchising System, LLC Franchise Disclosure Document, issued March 30, 2026, as filed with the Minnesota Commerce (CARDS). Read the source FDD PDF. How to get this FDD yourself.
- Item 5: cited PDF p. 11
- Item 6: cited PDF p. 13
- Item 7: cited PDF p. 15
- Item 19: cited PDF p. 36
- Item 20: cited PDF p. 53
- Agreement term (Item 17): cited PDF p. 33
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If the state document viewer does not open, use Minnesota Commerce's public filing instructions to look up the filing by franchisor name and document date.
Document & verification changelog
- October 29, 2026: Record updated.
- October 23, 2026: Source check completed against the recorded FDD.
- October 23, 2026: Complete source recheck against the March 30, 2026 FDD (PDF pages 1-53): cover, Item 1, Item 5, all 24 Item 6 table rows, Item 11 advertising terms, every Item 7 row and total, Item 17 term, Item 19 Table 1 and Item 20 Tables 1-4. Corrected the franchising start year (1990), the standard initial fee, Item 6 page citations and row order, and the Table 3 page; labeled the local advertising requirement as an Item 11 spending requirement. The source hold is cleared.
- October 19, 2026: Source review hold recorded: The October 19 audit corrected conflicting Item 7 prose, selected financial-performance labels and PDF references. The fee schedule and remaining record sections still require a complete source recheck; the historical source-check date is not renewed by these targeted corrections.
- October 16, 2026: Initial cost profile published from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (issued March 30, 2026).