Applebee’s franchise

U.S. locations

Applebee’s reported 1,472 U.S. systemwide restaurants at December 28, 2025, comprising 1,413 franchised and 59 company-owned restaurants. The filing explicitly reports 1,413 domestic/U.S. Applebee’s franchised restaurants and 59 company-owned Applebee’s restaurants; the total is the all-ownership U.S. stock. The count is for the Applebee’s brand. Dual-branded IHOP/Applebee’s locations are counted once in each brand’s count under separate agreements and are not unique physical locations across both brands. The observation is an end-of-fiscal-year stock at December 28, 2025. Openings, closures and franchisee ownership changes are not substituted for the ending total. The filing’s 1,520 franchised and 1,579 total Applebee’s figures include international restaurants; the accepted U.S. figure uses the explicitly domestic 1,413 franchise count plus 59 company-owned restaurants.

Worldwide locations

1,579 Applebee’s restaurants worldwide at December28,2025:1,520 franchised and59 company-owned, including co-branded locations. Reported total includes domestic and international restaurants. Each dual-branded IHOP/Applebee’s location has separate agreements and appears once in each brand’s restaurant count. Do not sum the two brands to obtain unique physical locations. Quarterly/annual sales and weekly averages are not used to manufacture annual unit revenues.

Average annual revenue

2026 FDD Item 19 reports average annual Annualized Gross Sales of $2,954,522 and median of $2,822,904 across 1351 disclosed cohort (December 30, 2024 to December 28, 2025). This is a reported gross revenue/sales figure, not net profit or owner income.

Opening investment

$3,870,004–$5,822,933 for Tower II Prototype; $3,192,516–$5,076,178 for Celebration Prototype; $616,682–$4,632,445 for Dual Branded Restaurant Concept (Applebee's / IHOP) in the 2026 FDD Item 7 tables, including $1,721,592–$2,355,863 (Building Costs (Tower II Prototype)) and $405,000–$450,000 (Additional Funds - Operating Expenses for First 3 Months).