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Ford's Garage franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

Ford's Garage is a full-service restaurant franchise with a substantial initial investment ranging from $2.7M to $6.4M.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Ford's Garage's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 641278 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Ford's Garage franchise make?

Ford's Garage 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 $5,842,532 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 full-service restaurant brand that discloses earnings in the Full-service restaurant franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Ford's Garage 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 Ford's Garage's 5.5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Ford's Garage franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Ford's Garage franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $5,842,532 of revenue, a 5.5% royalty alone is about $321,339 a year before any other cost.

Ford's Garage lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

We do not publish a litigation answer for Ford's Garage. Item 3 could not be read reliably from this particular filing, and a claim that a company has no legal history is not one to make on a failed parse — so we say we do not know instead. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check; the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.

Ford's Garage closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Ford's Garage 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 Ford's Garage's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a full-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. Ford's Garage's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Net franchised outlets moved +3 to 33 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Ford's Garage?

Ford's Garage's franchise is offered by Vintage Hospitality Group, LLC — 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.

Full-service restaurant franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Ford's Garage 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.

Ford's Garage franchise — frequently asked