The ongoing-fee calculator · figures dated July 29, 2026
What does the ongoing take total at your numbers?
Entry fees are the headline; the ongoing take is the business model. Enter a hypothetical annual gross revenue and a time horizon, and this tool totals the ongoing payments to the licensor/franchisor under several published fee structures, side by side. All fee structures below are dated from each company's 2025 disclosure materials as digested by franchise-analytics services — each company's current FDD controls. Your inputs are hypothetical; results are arithmetic on those hypotheticals, not projections, estimates, or predictions of any business result.
Fee structure (dated — current FDD controls)
Ongoing %
Fixed obligations
Total paid over 10 yrs
Structures modeled: royalty % of gross + brand/ad-fund % of gross + fixed monthly obligations (minimums are applied when the percentage royalty falls below them; mandated local-marketing obligations are included where disclosed because they are compulsory spend, even though they are not paid to the franchisor). The 0%-royalty license row models a structure with no percentage-of-gross royalty and no mandated monthly obligations; one-time/entry fees are excluded from all rows — this table is about the ongoing take only.
How to use this number
Take the total for any system you are evaluating and ask the franchisor to confirm or correct it against the current FDD in writing. Then ask the year-five question: at that point, who owns the brand the fees built?
Where we stand — disclosedThis site is published by Atlas Metabolic, which offers a 0%-royalty license model in this category (partner owns their own brand; final agreements control). We think the honest comparison — documents, fees, ownership at exit — favors that structure, and you should verify that skepticism-first: see how Atlas structures it, and hold us to the same diligence standard this site applies to everyone else.
Fee-structure sources (2025 disclosure-year digests via sharpsheets.io, franchisechatter.com, franchisepayback.com, franchisesidekick.com; retrieved July 29, 2026)