2026 FDD Item 19, p. 74 Checked Oct 9, 2026
Firehouse Subs Franchise Revenue and EBITDA (2026 FDD)
In Item 19 of its 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Firehouse Subs reports average Annual Sales Volume - Counter Service Franchised Restaurants of $973,809 (January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, 1,033 U.S. Counter Service franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025; excludes U.S. territories and restaurants with a drive thru). The figures below are selected disclosures, not a substitute for reading the full Item 19.
Startup cost: a Firehouse Subs franchise costs an estimated $405,350 – $875,950 to open (Item 7). See the full Firehouse Subs franchise cost breakdown.
Does Firehouse Subs’s Item 19 show profit or owner pay?
Partly. Besides sales, Firehouse Subs’s Item 19 reports “Average Restaurant-level EBITDA - All Section B Reporting Restaurants” and “Median Restaurant-level EBITDA - All Section B Reporting Restaurants”. Each figure follows the franchisor’s own definition in Item 19, which decides which costs are deducted and whether an owner’s salary is one of them. None of them is necessarily an owner’s take-home pay.
What Firehouse Subs discloses (Item 19)
Source: Firehouse Subs 2026 FDD, Item 19, PDF p. 74.
| Figure | Value | Period | Based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Annual Sales Volume - Counter Service Franchised Restaurants | $973,809 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 1,033 U.S. Counter Service franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025; excludes U.S. territories and restaurants with a drive thru (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Median Annual Sales Volume - Counter Service Franchised Restaurants | $938,981 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 1,033 U.S. Counter Service franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025; excludes U.S. territories and restaurants with a drive thru (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Highest Annual Sales Volume - Counter Service Franchised Restaurants | $3,523,523 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 1,033 U.S. Counter Service franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025; excludes U.S. territories and restaurants with a drive thru (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Lowest Annual Sales Volume - Counter Service Franchised Restaurants | $154,410 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 1,033 U.S. Counter Service franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025; excludes U.S. territories and restaurants with a drive thru (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Average Restaurant Annual Sales Volume - Free Standing Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $1,054,318 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 35 U.S. Free Standing franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025; four not continuously operated excluded (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Median Annual Sales Volume - Free Standing Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $1,058,115 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 35 U.S. Free Standing franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Highest Annual Sales Volume - Free Standing Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $1,442,070 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 35 U.S. Free Standing franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Lowest Annual Sales Volume - Free Standing Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $402,349 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 35 U.S. Free Standing franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 74) |
| Average Restaurant Annual Sales Volume - End Cap Strip Center Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $1,123,608 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 69 U.S. End Cap Strip Center franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025; seventeen not continuously operated excluded (Item 19, PDF p. 75) |
| Median Annual Sales Volume - End Cap Strip Center Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $1,031,817 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 69 U.S. End Cap Strip Center franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 75) |
| Highest Annual Sales Volume - End Cap Strip Center Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $2,223,620 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 69 U.S. End Cap Strip Center franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 75) |
| Lowest Annual Sales Volume - End Cap Strip Center Franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru | $488,122 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 69 U.S. End Cap Strip Center franchised Restaurants with Drive Thru continuously operated throughout 2025 (Item 19, PDF p. 75) |
| Average Restaurant-level EBITDA - All Section B Reporting Restaurants | $103,119 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 704 U.S. franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025 with sufficient profit-and-loss statements; 433 full-year restaurants lacked sufficient statements and 97 were not open all year (Item 19, PDF p. 76) |
| Median Restaurant-level EBITDA - All Section B Reporting Restaurants | $95,743 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 704 U.S. franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025 with sufficient profit-and-loss statements; not the larger Section A sales sample (Item 19, PDF p. 76) |
Item 19 sample and definitions
Section A, PDF pp. 73–75, separates counter-service, freestanding drive-thru and end-cap drive-thru restaurants. Counter service includes non-drive-thru freestanding, inline, end-cap and nontraditional locations; it is not an inline-only sample. It excludes 76 counter-service restaurants not continuously operated all year and 21 permanently closed restaurants. Section B, pp. 75–76, uses 704 restaurants with sufficient profit-and-loss submissions rather than all 1,137 full-year restaurants. PDF pp. 79–80 say sales include catering and delivery but exclude refunds and sales taxes; royalty reports are unaudited. Restaurant-level EBITDA means earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, not net profit or owner income. It excludes above-restaurant corporate salaries and office expenses, and district/area-manager and other listed labor costs unless not reported separately. Other costs include royalties, system fund, MIS and digital technology fees. These EBITDA values are copied from the FDD, not calculated from the displayed sales average. Item 19's 1,234 year-end franchised restaurants exclude U.S. territories. Item 20's printed Table 3 total of 1,249 includes 15 Puerto Rico restaurants on PDF p. 88, which explains the different geographic scope.
How to interpret Firehouse Subs’s Item 19 figures and sample limits · What Item 19 does and does not show about owner pay.
Digital Technology Fees include a Digital Sales percentage, while delivery fees depend on qualifying order counts. Total recurring fees cannot be determined from the broad annual sales figure alone. Reported sales are not owner income.
Scope of these figures: The selected Firehouse Subs disclosures above retain their recorded periods and samples. The lead figure covers 1,033 U.S. Counter Service franchised Restaurants continuously operated throughout 2025; excludes U.S. territories and restaurants with a drive thru. 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
Firehouse of America, LLC Franchise Disclosure Document, issued March 25, 2026, as filed with the Minnesota Commerce (CARDS). Read the source FDD PDF. How to get this FDD yourself.
- Item 5: cited PDF p. 24
- Item 6: cited PDF p. 29
- Item 7: cited PDF p. 33
- Item 19: cited PDF p. 74
- Item 20: cited PDF p. 89
- Agreement term (Item 17): cited PDF p. 64
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Document & verification changelog
- October 29, 2026: Record updated.
- October 9, 2026: Source check completed against the recorded FDD.
- October 9, 2026: Initial cost profile published from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (issued March 25, 2026).