Qdoba, Qdoba Mexican Eats, Qdoba Mexican Grill
Source filing: WI · filed 2025-12-10
Item 5 — Initial franchise fee
$40,000 [p.16 · WI · 2025-12-10]
Item 6 — Recurring fees (royalty & advertising)
| Royalty | Five percent (5%) of gross sales [p.17 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
|---|---|
| Local Advertising(1) | Currently, no requirement to spend any amount for local advertising. [p.17 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
Full Item 6 schedule (including one-time and conditional fees) is in the FDD itself.
Item 7 — Estimated initial investment (total)
$548,100 [p.24 · WI · 2025-12-10] – $1,294,000 [p.24 · WI · 2025-12-10]
Base single-franchise offering as stated in the FDD's total row. Multi-unit or area-development formats are not broken out here.
Item 20 — Outlets
| Franchised outlets at start of year | 613 [p.63 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
|---|---|
| Franchised outlets at end of year | 652 [p.63 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| Net change in franchised outlets | 39 [p.63 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| Transfers | 11 [p.63 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| Terminations | 0 [p.68 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| Non-renewals | 1 [p.68 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| Ceased operations (other) | 9 [p.68 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| Company-owned outlets at end of year | 175 [p.63 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
Item 19 — Financial performance representation
Headline cohort
464 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for at least one year as of September 28, 2025 - Total · Trailing twelve months ended September 28, 2025
| Outlets in sample | Average | Median | High | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 464 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,697,254 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,596,761 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $5,078,990 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $411,191 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
All disclosed cohorts (9)
| Cohort | Outlets | Average | Median | High | Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 390 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for all three fiscal years FY2023-FY2025 FY 2023 (10/3/2022 - 10/1/2023) |
390 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,559,142 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,476,793 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $4,708,597 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $431,709 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 390 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for all three fiscal years FY2023-FY2025 FY 2024 (10/2/2023 - 9/29/2024) |
390 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,682,890 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,607,864 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $5,492,729 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $417,422 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 390 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for all three fiscal years FY2023-FY2025 FY 2025 (9/30/2024 - 9/28/2025) |
390 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,766,860 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,647,607 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $5,078,990 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $422,629 [p.59 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 464 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for at least one year as of September 28, 2025 - Top Quartile Trailing twelve months ended September 28, 2025 |
116 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $2,573,684 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $2,450,334 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $5,078,990 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $2,110,176 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 464 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for at least one year as of September 28, 2025 - 2nd Quartile Trailing twelve months ended September 28, 2025 |
116 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,833,353 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,859,571 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $2,109,725 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,597,145 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 464 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for at least one year as of September 28, 2025 - 3rd Quartile Trailing twelve months ended September 28, 2025 |
116 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,412,582 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,421,970 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,596,376 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,241,292 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 464 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for at least one year as of September 28, 2025 - Bottom Quartile Trailing twelve months ended September 28, 2025 |
116 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $969,398 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,007,528 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,227,584 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $411,191 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 464 franchised Qdoba restaurants open and franchisee operated for at least one year as of September 28, 2025 - Total Trailing twelve months ended September 28, 2025 |
464 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,697,254 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $1,596,761 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $5,078,990 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | $411,191 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] |
| 397 traditional franchised Qdoba restaurants reporting through online portal for trailing twelve-month periods Trailing twelve-month periods ending between January 19, 2025 and September 28, 2025 |
397 [p.60 · WI · 2025-12-10] | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
“Some outlets have earned these amounts. Your individual results may differ. There is no assurance you will earn as much.” [p.62 · WI · 2025-12-10]
Extraction notes
- One or more Item 19 figures failed source verification and were removed.
- Item 7 totals were extracted with model assistance and verified against the cited page.