Baskin-Robbins franchise: what it costs
To open a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop, you'll pay between $307,400 and $626,700. That figure comes from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD), the paperwork every brand must hand you before you buy.
Item by item: Baskin-Robbins franchise costs
- Full opening cost
- $307,400 to $626,700 Item 7, 2026 FDD
- Franchise fee you pay one time at the start
- $25,000 Item 5, 2026 FDD
- Royalty, your ongoing payments to the brand
- 5.9% on gross sales Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Marketing fund, which covers shared advertising
- 5% on gross sales Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Figures on sales or earnings
- $526,669 a year on average across 814 locations it counts, before costs Item 19, 2026 FDD
- 2025 year-end locations
- Franchise owners ran 967, the company ran 0 Item 20, 2026 FDD
Each figure here comes from the 2026 Baskin-Robbins Franchise Disclosure Document. Baskin-robbins Franchising LLC submitted it to the Minnesota Department of Commerce, and it's dated March 26, 2026. Each small label points to the numbered part of the FDD where that figure sits.
Earnings and sales figures in the Baskin-Robbins FDD
Item 19 is the FDD section where a brand may report what its locations sell or earn, and Baskin-Robbins provides figures there. The main figure: shops took in $526,669 a year on average. That covers 814 franchised US shops, all open through the full 2025 fiscal year. It is money the store takes in, not profit, because rent, wages and every other cost get paid from it.
Before you trust any figure, our guide explains how to read Item 19.
The number of Baskin-Robbins locations
At the end of 2025, the United States had 967 Baskin-Robbins locations, with franchise owners running 100% of them (Item 20). 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 Baskin-Robbins FDD read by a franchise attorney
Before you sign, one franchise attorney can go through the Baskin-Robbins FDD and franchise agreement with you.