Chicken Salad Chick franchise: what it costs
To open a Chicken Salad Chick franchise restaurant without a drive-thru, plan on $777,000 to $998,500. That figure comes from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
Chicken Salad Chick franchise cost, item by item
- Full opening cost
- $777,000 to $998,500 Item 7, 2026 FDD
- Franchise fee you pay one time at the start
- $50,000 Item 5, 2026 FDD
- Royalty, your ongoing payments to the brand
- At least $600, or 5% of gross sales if higher Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Marketing fund, which covers shared advertising
- A 2% share of gross sales Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Figures on sales or earnings
- $1,496,540 a year on average across 214 locations it counts, before costs Item 19, 2026 FDD
- Location count when 2025 ended
- Franchise owners ran 252, and the company ran 74 Item 20, 2026 FDD
Every figure above comes from the 2026 Chicken Salad Chick Franchise Disclosure Document. The date is April 20, 2026, and Simply Southern Restaurant Group, LLC submitted it to the Minnesota Department of Commerce. Each small label points to the numbered part of the FDD where that figure sits.
Chicken Salad Chick FDD: Sales and earnings figures
In Item 19, the FDD section where a brand may state what locations sell or earn, Chicken Salad Chick gives figures. For 214 franchised restaurants open all through 2025, average yearly sales of $1,496,540 are the main figure. 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 in one, our guide walks through making sense of an Item 19.
Other chicken franchises next to Chicken Salad Chick
Among the chicken franchises compared here, Chicken Salad Chick costs less to open than most. $1.19M is where the middle one starts.
| Brand | Total cost to opentotal, lowest to highest | Upfront feeone-time fee | Royaltyongoing, usually a % of sales | Sales or earnings showndoes the brand show sales figures | Year filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chick-fil-A | $318K to $3.46M | $10,000 | 15% + 50% of profit | Yes | 2026 |
| Chicken Salad Chick | $777K to $999K | $50,000 | 5% | Yes | 2026 |
| Dave's Hot Chicken | $824K to $4.12M | $40,000 | 6% | No | 2026 |
| Slim Chickens | $1.19M to $4.94M | $30,000 | 5% | Yes | 2026 |
| Popeyes | $1.22M to $3.92M | $50,000 | 5% | Yes | 2026 |
| Zaxby's | $1.45M to $3.81M | $35,000 | 6% | Yes | 2025 |
| KFC | $2.11M to $4.16M | $45,000 | 5% | Yes | 2026 |
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 the part of sales, or the fixed amount, that goes to the brand on an ongoing basis. "Sales or earnings shown" tells you whether the brand shares what its locations take in. A K stands for thousand, an M for million. The filing year is the year that FDD was listed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
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Chicken Salad Chick location count
Item 20 counts 326 Chicken Salad Chick restaurants in the United States as 2025 ended; franchise owners ran 77% of them. 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 Chicken Salad Chick FDD read by a franchise attorney
Before you sign, one franchise attorney can go through the Chicken Salad Chick FDD and franchise agreement with you.