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Fitness Together franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

What Fitness Together's most recent Franchise Disclosure Document says about the money, the litigation, and the franchisee churn — before you wire a five- or six-figure franchise fee.

Everything below is free, read straight off Fitness Together's registered filing, with where the numbers land against category peers. Weighing Fitness Together against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Fitness Together's most recent FDD (registered 2020). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 11112-202003-02 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

How much does a Fitness Together franchise make?

Fitness Together 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 other brand that discloses earnings in the Other franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Fitness Together 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 Fitness Together's 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Fitness Together franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Fitness Together franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

Fitness Together lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Fitness Together's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2020) 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 Fitness Together 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.

Fitness Together closures & failure rate

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

Who owns Fitness Together?

Fitness Together's franchise is offered by Fitness Together Franchise, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2020), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at MN CARDS; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it. The same franchisor files separate FDDs for other brands, which is worth knowing — sibling brands share a franchise-support organization but disclose their own numbers:

Franchises at a similar investment level at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Fitness Together 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.

Fitness Together franchise — frequently asked