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Meals of Hope franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Significant turnover Item 19 disclosed

Meals of Hope is a food and beverage franchise focused on meal packing, with a relatively low initial investment.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Meals of Hope's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640142 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Meals of Hope franchise make?

Meals of Hope 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 $791,196 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 food & beverage brand that discloses earnings in the Food & beverage franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

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

Meals of Hope lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Meals of Hope's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Meals of Hope closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Meals of Hope 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 Meals of Hope's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a food & beverage 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. Meals of Hope's latest tables show significant franchisee turnover. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 14.3%, against a food & beverage median of 3.3% — worse than the category. Net franchised outlets moved -1 to 6 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Meals of Hope?

Meals of Hope's franchise is offered by Meals of Hope Logistics, Inc. — 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.

Food & beverage franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Meals of Hope 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.

Meals of Hope franchise — frequently asked