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HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

Kitchen Tune Up is a home services franchise with a relatively low initial investment of $129,930-$188,850.

Everything below is free, read straight off HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up)'s registered filing, with where the numbers land against home services peers. Weighing HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up)'s most recent FDD (registered 2024). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-30348 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) franchise make?

HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) 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 $503,133 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 home services brand that discloses earnings in the Home services & home improvement franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) 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 HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up)'s 1% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $503,133 of revenue, a 1% royalty alone is about $5,031 a year before any other cost.

HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up)'s most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2024) does disclose 1 legal proceeding 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 HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) 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. 1 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.

HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) closures & failure rate

Before you sign, HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up) 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 HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up)'s most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a home services 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. HFC KTU LLC (Kitchen Tune Up)'s latest tables show a growing franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 4.3%, against a home services median of 5.1% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +24 to 257 in the latest reported year.

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