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Taste Buds Kitchen franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

Taste Buds Kitchen is a food and beverage franchise with an investment range of $425,750 to $549,650.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Taste Buds Kitchen's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640275 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Taste Buds Kitchen franchise make?

Taste Buds Kitchen 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 $701,223 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.

Taste Buds Kitchen 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 Taste Buds Kitchen's 8% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Taste Buds Kitchen franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Taste Buds Kitchen franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $701,223 of revenue, a 8% royalty alone is about $56,098 a year before any other cost.

Taste Buds Kitchen lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

We do not publish a litigation answer for Taste Buds Kitchen. Item 3 could not be read reliably from this particular filing, and a claim that a company has no legal history is not one to make on a failed parse — so we say we do not know instead. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check; the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.

Taste Buds Kitchen closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Taste Buds Kitchen 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 Taste Buds Kitchen'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. Taste Buds Kitchen's latest tables show a growing 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 +2 to 12 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Taste Buds Kitchen?

Taste Buds Kitchen's franchise is offered by Taste Buds Kitchen International LLC — 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 Taste Buds Kitchen 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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