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Milk Jar Cookies franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Stable network Item 19 disclosed

Milk Jar Cookies is a food and beverage brand with a straightforward royalty structure.

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Figures above are as disclosed in Milk Jar Cookies's most recent FDD (registered 2023). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-27396 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a Milk Jar Cookies franchise make?

Milk Jar Cookies 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 $1,283,408 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.

Milk Jar Cookies 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 Milk Jar Cookies's 10% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Milk Jar Cookies franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Milk Jar Cookies franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $1,283,408 of revenue, a 10% royalty alone is about $128,341 a year before any other cost.

Milk Jar Cookies lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Milk Jar Cookies's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2023) 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.

Milk Jar Cookies closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Milk Jar Cookies 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 Milk Jar Cookies'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. Milk Jar Cookies's latest tables show a stable franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 0%, against a food & beverage median of 3.3% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved 0 to 1 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Milk Jar Cookies?

Milk Jar Cookies's franchise is offered by Milk Jar Cookies Franchising, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2023), 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.

Other food & beverage franchises

Anyone weighing Milk Jar Cookies 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.

Milk Jar Cookies franchise — frequently asked