Restaurants
Louisiana-inspired chicken restaurant brand.
2026 FDD · In-Line and Free Standing Restaurants · real estate excluded
2025
June30,2026 · franchised and company-owned restaurants
2025 · worldwide, all ownership
$504,545–$3,923,245
Opening costs vary by format, location and lease terms.
2026 FDD Item 7
Excludes variable real estate purchase or lease costs. Includes $50,000 initial franchise fee, $700,000–$1,600,000 building costs, $150,000–$1,200,000 site work, and $20,000–$30,000 additional funds for three months.
2026 FDD Item 7
Excludes variable real estate purchase or lease costs. Includes $50,000 initial franchise fee, $100,000–$850,000 building/leasehold improvements, and $20,000–$30,000 additional funds for three months.
Selected ongoing charges, not a complete fee schedule. Confirm the current FDD and the terms for your format.
Revenue is sales before expenses, not owner income. Compare matching periods, formats and location samples.
3,229 U.S. locations (2025).
Existing locations do not establish that a new territory is available. Confirm your market with the franchisor.
2026 FDD Item 20 Table 1 reports 3,134 franchised and 95 company-owned U.S. restaurants (3,229 total) at fiscal year-end 2025.
2025 worldwide Popeyes systemwide sales: $7,789,000,000 (source: $7,789 million), including franchised and company restaurants. This is restaurant sales, not franchisor revenue, average unit sales or owner income. PLK regional reporting segment sales of $6,076 million are distinct. No Item21 guarantor, franchisor financial condition, average sales or owner-income inference.
5,468 restaurants worldwide as of June 30, 2026, including franchised and company-owned restaurants. Snapshot at June30,2026; restaurant count is not pipeline, franchise agreements, rooms, territories, annual openings or individual franchise owners. Combined franchised and company-owned restaurants. The parent’s over95% franchise share is not assigned to any individual brand; brand-specific ownership split stays null. Brand worldwide figure is stated literally in Note1. TH/BK/PLK/FHS financial segments describe U.S./Canada; INTL aggregates brands outside U.S./Canada with stated exclusions, and RH separately reports company operations. Do not add overlapping segment figures. Key Operating Metrics includes Carrols BK KPIs in BK and BK China/PLK China/FHS Brazil KPIs in INTL, although their financial segments differ. The Note1 count avoids financial/KPI segment double counting. Restaurant definition considers scope of operations, format/image, separate franchise agreement and minimum sales thresholds. Alternative formats failing that definition are not normalized into restaurant counts. Source is an unaudited interim Form10-Q statement. No original HTML or full-document authenticity certification. Older FY2025 worldwide and regional rows are retained separately as historical context, not revised. Systemwide sales are not annual unit means or owner income.
$504,545–$1,968,245 for an In-Line Popeyes Restaurant and $1,222,045–$3,923,245 for a Free Standing Popeyes Restaurant (1,600–3,500 sq ft), excluding variable real estate purchase or lease costs. Includes $50,000 initial franchise fee and $20,000–$30,000 additional funds for three months.
Research snapshot: . Sources and methodology
Compare Popeyes’s franchise model against starting or buying an independent business in chicken and wings (line-item CapEx, 0%-royalty owner SDE margins & SBA resale multiples):