Marble Slab Creamery franchise: what it costs
For opening a Marble Slab Creamery franchise ice cream shop, budget between $354,500 and $476,650. Its 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) says so, and a brand must hand you those papers ahead of buying.
Marble Slab Creamery franchise cost, item by item
- Cost to open, in total
- $354,500 up to $476,650 Item 7, 2025 FDD
- Franchise fee you pay one time at the start
- $25,000 Item 5, 2025 FDD
- Royalty, your ongoing payments to the brand
- A 6% share of net sales Item 6, 2025 FDD
- Marketing fund, which covers shared advertising
- 2% charged on net sales Item 6, 2025 FDD
- Figures on sales or earnings
- $480,828 a year on average across 195 locations it counts, before costs Item 19, 2025 FDD
- Locations when 2024 ended
- Franchise owners ran 249, and the company ran 0 Item 20, 2025 FDD
Every figure above comes from the 2025 Marble Slab Creamery Franchise Disclosure Document, which Marble Slab Franchising, LLC filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce. Each small label points to the numbered part of the FDD where that figure sits.
Marble Slab Creamery FDD: sales and earnings
Item 19 is the section of the FDD where a brand may report the sales or earnings of its locations. Marble Slab Creamery shares figures there. Average yearly net sales are the main figure: $480,828 for 195 franchised shops in the US, open all of 2024. It is money the store takes in, not profit, because rent, wages and every other cost get paid from it.
Use our guide to read Item 19 before you trust any figure in that part.
The number of Marble Slab Creamery locations
At the close of 2024, Marble Slab Creamery had 249 United States 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 Marble Slab Creamery FDD read by a franchise attorney
Before you sign, one franchise attorney can go through the Marble Slab Creamery FDD and franchise agreement with you.