Franchise Market Update: Monthly Overview & Spotlight on Jamba

Monthly Overview

Welcome to this month's franchise market update. We're tracking 215 total franchises this month, with additions and updates spanning food and beverage, home services, health and fitness, and more. Our data team processed four weekly FDD batches throughout August, refreshing over 55,000 franchisee records along the way. This month's spotlight lands on Jamba, whose latest FDD tells a more complicated story than its brand recognition would suggest.

Data Update Statistics

New Franchise Additions

This month we welcomed 14 new franchise brands across diverse industries.

Franchise Updates Summary

This month we processed 201 franchise updates across multiple sectors.

Franchise Spotlight: Jamba

Jamba operates blended-to-order smoothie and juice stores across Traditional, Non-Traditional, and Auntie Anne's Co-Branded formats. The brand traces back to 1991 as Juice Club, Inc., and now franchises under Jamba Juice Franchisor SPV LLC, part of GoTo Foods. Its FDD discloses a wide gap between top and bottom performing stores, and a unit count that has declined for three consecutive years.

Why we like it:

Behind the numbers:

• •No Exclusive Territory Granted: Item 12 states plainly that no exclusive territory is granted. Traditional Stores receive an Area of Protection capped at a one-block radius in urban markets or one mile elsewhere, with no minimum. Non-Traditional Stores receive no territorial protection at all.
• •A Wide Gap Between Top and Bottom Performers: Item 19 covers 488 Traditional Stores for fiscal 2025. The top quartile averaged $1,040,108 in annual net sales, while the bottom quartile averaged $385,282, a 2.7x spread within the same brand and the same fee structure.
• •Three Consecutive Years of Unit Decline: Item 20 shows net franchised unit losses of 2, 7, and 17 across 2023, 2024, and 2025 respectively. Over that span, Jamba recorded 130 closures against 104 new store openings.

Performance Metrics

Investment Requirements

Total Investment Range:

$249,025 - $1,811,400

Initial Franchise Fee:

$35,500

Ongoing Fees

Royalties:

6% of Net Sales

Marketing Fund:

3% of Net Sales to the Ad Fund, plus a 1% local marketing minimum, capped at 5% combined

Support Structure

Jamba requires at least two managers to complete a Management Training Program before store operations begin, totaling 85 hours (25 classroom, 60 on-the-job) for standard stores or 105 hours for Auntie Anne's Co-Branded locations. Training is free for a franchisee's first two stores, with a $3,000 tuition fee (or $4,000 for Co-Branded) starting with the third. Before opening, the franchisor reviews site selection, lease terms, and architectural plans, and provides 6 to 9 days of on-site opening support at no additional charge for the first two stores. Ongoing support includes access to operations manuals through an online learning system, administration of the 3% Advertising Contribution, periodic operational audits, mandatory store refreshes every 5 and 15 years, and 24/7 POS help desk support