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Doner Haus franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

Doner Haus Franchising LLC offers a quick-service restaurant concept with an initial investment ranging from $516,869 to $763,804.

Everything below is free, read straight off Doner Haus's registered filing, with where the numbers land against quick-service restaurant peers. Weighing Doner Haus against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Doner Haus's most recent FDD (registered 2025). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-33017 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a Doner Haus franchise make?

Doner Haus 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 is $1,923,986 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every quick-service restaurant brand that discloses earnings in the Fast food & quick-service restaurant franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Doner Haus 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 Doner Haus's 3% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Doner Haus franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Doner Haus franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $1,923,986 of revenue, a 3% royalty alone is about $57,720 a year before any other cost.

Doner Haus lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Doner Haus's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Doner Haus closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Doner Haus 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 Doner Haus's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a quick-service restaurant 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. Doner Haus's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Doner Haus?

Doner Haus's franchise is offered by Doner Haus Franchising LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at CA DFPI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Quick-service restaurant franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Doner Haus 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.

Doner Haus franchise — frequently asked