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Dos Coyotes franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

Dos Coyotes Border Cafe is a quick-service restaurant concept with a relatively high initial investment.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Dos Coyotes's most recent FDD (registered 2025). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-33547 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a Dos Coyotes franchise make?

Dos Coyotes 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 $1,915,370 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.

Dos Coyotes 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 Dos Coyotes's 2% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Dos Coyotes franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Dos Coyotes franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $1,915,370 of revenue, a 2% royalty alone is about $38,307 a year before any other cost.

Dos Coyotes lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Dos Coyotes's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) does disclose 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 Dos Coyotes 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. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

Dos Coyotes closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Dos Coyotes 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 Dos Coyotes'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. Dos Coyotes's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Dos Coyotes?

Dos Coyotes's franchise is offered by Dos Coyotes Development Company 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 Dos Coyotes 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.

Dos Coyotes franchise — frequently asked