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Saunatica franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

Saunatica Franchising LLC operates in the health & wellness sector, offering a franchise opportunity with an initial investment ranging from $396,165 to $597,790.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Saunatica's most recent FDD (registered 2024). Source: California Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation — Franchise Registration · filing app-30492 — check it yourself. See every other California-registered franchise.

How much does a Saunatica franchise make?

Saunatica 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 $430,677 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 health & wellness brand that discloses earnings in the Health & wellness franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Saunatica 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 Saunatica's 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Saunatica franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Saunatica franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $430,677 of revenue, a 6% royalty alone is about $25,841 a year before any other cost.

Saunatica lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Saunatica's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2024) 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.

Saunatica closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Saunatica 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 Saunatica's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a health & wellness 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. Saunatica's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Saunatica?

Saunatica's franchise is offered by Saunatica Franchising LLC — 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.

Health & wellness franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Saunatica 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.

Saunatica franchise — frequently asked