Nothing Bundt Cakes franchise: what it costs
Opening a bakery with the Nothing Bundt Cakes franchise runs $475,200 to $994,100, based on its 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
Nothing Bundt Cakes franchise cost, item by item
- Full cost of opening
- $475,200 to $994,100 Item 7, 2026 FDD
- Franchise fee you pay one time at the start
- $45,000 Item 5, 2026 FDD
- Royalty, your ongoing payments to the brand
- Weekly net revenue: you pay 6% of it Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Marketing fund, which covers shared advertising
- Weekly net revenue: you pay 5% of it Item 6, 2026 FDD
- Figures on sales or earnings
- $1,477,163 a year on average across 545 locations it counts, before costs Item 19, 2026 FDD
- Location count when 2025 ended
- Franchise owners ran 771 of them and the company ran 8 Item 20, 2026 FDD
The 2026 Nothing Bundt Cakes Franchise Disclosure Document, dated April 30, 2026, is where each figure above comes from. NBC Franchisor LLC filed it with the Minnesota Department of Commerce. Each small label points to the numbered part of the FDD where that figure sits.
Nothing Bundt Cakes FDD: sales and earnings
Nothing Bundt Cakes gives figures in Item 19, the FDD section where a brand may state what its locations sell or earn. For 545 franchised bakeries that had been open 24 months or longer, the main 2025 figure was $1,477,163 in average yearly net revenue. It is money the store takes in, not profit, because rent, wages and every other cost get paid from it.
Before you lean on any figure in an Item 19, our guide shows how to read one.
Other bakery and snack franchises compared with Nothing Bundt Cakes
On this site, most bakery and snack franchises cost less to open than Nothing Bundt Cakes; $366K is where the middle one starts.
| Brand | Total cost to opentotal, lowest to highest | Upfront feeone-time fee | Royaltyongoing, usually a % of sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auntie Anne's | $158K to $836K | $35,500 | 7% |
| Cinnabon | $257K to $704K | $35,500 | 6% |
| Nothing Bundt Cakes | $475K to $994K | $45,000 | 6% |
| Crumbl | $849K to $1.47M | $50,000 | 8% |
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. A royalty is the slice of sales, or a fixed amount, that you keep paying the brand once you've opened. A K stands for thousand, an M for million. Each of the 4 brands gives sales or earnings figures in its FDD (open a brand to see them). The Minnesota Department of Commerce received every FDD here in 2026.
Every bakery and snack franchise, side by side
The number of Nothing Bundt Cakes locations
Item 20 counts 779 Nothing Bundt Cakes bakeries across the United States as 2025 ended, and franchise owners ran 99% 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 Nothing Bundt Cakes FDD read by a franchise attorney
Before you sign, one franchise attorney can go through the Nothing Bundt Cakes FDD and franchise agreement with you.