7 Brew franchise: what it costs
According to the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD), the documents a brand must hand you before you buy, a drive-thru coffee store under the 7 Brew franchise costs $940,500 to $2,283,500 to open.
7 Brew franchise cost, item by item
- Full cost of opening
- $940,500 to $2,283,500 Item 7, 2026 FDD
- Franchise fee you pay one time at the start
- $35,000 Item 5, 2026 FDD
- Royalty, your ongoing payments to the brand
- A rate of 4.5% to 7% applies to weekly gross sales, with tiers set by sales Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Marketing fund, which covers shared advertising
- Set at 2% of weekly gross sales Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Figures on sales or earnings
- $2,646,063 a year on average across the locations the brand counts, before costs Item 19, 2026 FDD
- Location count when 2025 ended
- Franchise owners ran 578 of them, the company 24 Item 20, 2026 FDD
Brew Culture Franchise, LLC filed the 2026 7 Brew Franchise Disclosure Document with the Minnesota Department of Commerce, and every figure above comes from it. Each small label points to the numbered part of the FDD where that figure sits.
Figures for sales and earnings in the 7 Brew FDD
In Item 19, the FDD section where a brand may state what its locations sell or earn, 7 Brew shares its figures. Average yearly sales of $2,646,063 are the main figure, covering the 297 franchise-run stores that stayed open all of 2025. It is money the store takes in, not profit, because rent, wages and every other cost get paid from it.
Before you count on any figure in it, our guide shows how to read Item 19.
7 Brew compared with other coffee franchises
The middle coffee franchise on this site starts at $672K, while 7 Brew has a higher opening cost than most
| Brand | Total cost to opentotal, lowest to highest | Upfront feeone-time fee | Royaltyongoing, usually a % of sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn Brothers Coffee | $449K to $728K | $30,000 | 5% |
| PJ's Coffee | $523K to $899K | $15,000 to $40,000 | 5% |
| Dunkin' | $532K to $1.83M | $40,000 to $90,000 | 5.9% |
| Ziggi's Coffee | $587K to $1.76M | $40,000 | 6% |
| The Human Bean | $672K to $1.53M | $35,000 | None |
| Caribou Coffee | $898K to $1.51M | $30,000 | 5% |
| 7 Brew | $941K to $2.28M | $35,000 | 4.5% to 7% |
| Tim Hortons | $988K to $3.31M | $50,000 | 4.5% to 6% |
| Scooter's Coffee | $1.16M to $1.35M | $40,000 | 6% |
Before you buy, a brand has to hand over its Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD); the brand's latest one is where every figure comes from. After you open, the royalty is what you keep paying the brand, either a share of sales or a set amount. A K stands for thousand, an M for million. The 9 brands each put figures for sales or earnings in their FDD (open one to look) Each FDD here went to the Minnesota Department of Commerce and was filed in 2026.
All coffee franchises, side by side
The number of 7 Brew locations
Item 20 puts the 2025 year-end count at 602 across the United States; franchise owners operated 96% of those 7 Brew sites In that same part of the FDD, you get phone numbers for owners still running stores and ones who left. Your best way to learn how these costs play out in real life is to call a few of them.
Get the 7 Brew FDD read by a franchise attorney
Before you sign, one franchise attorney can go through the 7 Brew FDD and franchise agreement with you.