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Poki Bowl franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

Poki Bowl is a quick-service restaurant franchise with an investment range of $187,750 to $423,523.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Poki Bowl's most recent FDD (registered 2025). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-32746 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a Poki Bowl franchise make?

Poki Bowl 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 $69,003 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 quick-service restaurant brand that discloses earnings in the Fast food & quick-service restaurant franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Poki Bowl 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 Poki Bowl's 5.5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Poki Bowl franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Poki Bowl franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $69,003 of revenue, a 5.5% royalty alone is about $3,795 a year before any other cost.

Poki Bowl lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Poki Bowl's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) 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 Poki Bowl 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.

Poki Bowl closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Poki Bowl 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 Poki Bowl's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a quick-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. Poki Bowl's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Net franchised outlets moved +2 to 2 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Poki Bowl?

Poki Bowl's franchise is offered by PB Asset Group, Inc. — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2025), 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.

Quick-service restaurant franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Poki Bowl 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.

Poki Bowl franchise — frequently asked