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7-Eleven franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

7-Eleven is a well-established food & beverage brand with a significant franchise fee of $800,000.

Everything below is free, read straight off 7-Eleven's registered filing. Weighing 7-Eleven against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in 7-Eleven's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 641227 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a 7-Eleven franchise make?

7-Eleven is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure did not machine-read cleanly from this filing, so we don't print one; Item 19 of the source FDD has the tables. See every food & beverage brand that discloses earnings in the Food & beverage franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

7-Eleven franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come the royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a 7-Eleven franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "7-Eleven franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

7-Eleven lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

7-Eleven's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose 6 legal proceedings in Item 3 . Item 3 is the item where a franchisor must put its material legal history on the record. Two things it is not: it covers the franchisor and its predecessors, parents and affiliates, so a disclosed case is not necessarily a suit against 7-Eleven itself; and a disclosure is a fact, not a finding of wrongdoing — most entries are contract disputes with former franchisees, which every large system accumulates. 6 of those proceedings were brought by franchisees against the franchisor — the split that actually matters, because franchisees suing their franchisor is the signal a buyer is looking for. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

7-Eleven closures & failure rate

Before you sign, 7-Eleven will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what 7-Eleven's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a food & beverage of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. 7-Eleven's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 1.1%, against a food & beverage median of 3.3% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +45 to 7,274 in the latest reported year.

Who owns 7-Eleven?

7-Eleven's franchise is offered by 7-Eleven, Inc — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Other food & beverage franchises

Anyone weighing 7-Eleven is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

7-Eleven franchise — frequently asked