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Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

JAN-PRO COMMERCIAL CLEANING offers a low initial investment in the cleaning and restoration sector, with disclosed Item 19 figures indicating potential annual gross billings of $24,000 for an initial plan.

Everything below is free, read straight off Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning's registered filing, with where the numbers land against cleaning & restoration peers. Weighing Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning's most recent FDD (registered 2024). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-31981 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning franchise make?

Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning 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 $24,000 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 cleaning & restoration brand that discloses earnings in the Cleaning & restoration franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning 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 Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning's 12% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $24,000 of revenue, a 12% royalty alone is about $2,880 a year before any other cost.

Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2024) 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 Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning 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.

Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning 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 Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a cleaning & restoration 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. Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 11.7%, against a cleaning & restoration median of 4% — worse than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +472 to 9,283 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning?

Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning's franchise is offered by Vandelay Investment, Inc. — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2024), 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.

Cleaning & restoration franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Jan-Pro Commercial Cleaning 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.

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