Franchise Facts Report → brands → Tin Drum Asian Kitchen

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk

What Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's most recent Franchise Disclosure Document says about the money, the litigation, and the franchisee churn — before you wire a five- or six-figure franchise fee.

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's filing is one of the thin ones — several of the tables below didn't machine-read cleanly, and we'd rather show you that than assert numbers we haven't verified. The methodology page explains what we do and don't read, and the source FDD itself is linked at the bottom of this page.

Figures above are as disclosed in Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's most recent FDD (registered 2021). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 19725-202108-03 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen franchise profit — what the FDD discloses

We do not publish an earnings answer for Tin Drum Asian Kitchen. Item 19 — the section where a franchisor may disclose unit revenue — could not be read reliably out of this particular filing, and "this brand publishes no earnings figures" is a claim about the franchisor that we are not willing to make on a failed parse. Item 19 of the source FDD is the place to check. Either way, no FDD discloses profit: any "Tin Drum Asian Kitchen franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere is someone's estimate. The fees, litigation and outlet churn Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's FDD does contain are on this page, and the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2021) 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.

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Tin Drum Asian 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 Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a franchise 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. Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Tin Drum Asian Kitchen?

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen's franchise is offered by Tin Drum Asiacafe, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2021), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at MN CARDS; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Other franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Tin Drum Asian 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.

Tin Drum Asian Kitchen franchise — frequently asked