Cinnabon franchise cost in 2026: $196,250 to $715,100 for a Full Bakery, a $35,500 fee, and a $600,536 median across 189 mall bakeries. See the FDD data.
Quick answer A Cinnabon Full Bakery costs $196,250 to $715,100 to open per the 2026 FDD, including a $35,500 initial franchise fee. Express bakeries inside a host restaurant start at $29,250, and an Auntie Anne's co-brand runs up to $1,205,400. Median net sales were $600,536 across 189 franchised enclosed mall bakeries in fiscal 2025.
The median franchised Cinnabon in an enclosed mall sold $600,536 in fiscal 2025. Cinnabon Franchisor SPV LLC reports it in the disclosure document issued March 27, 2026, against a Full Bakery investment of $196,250 to $715,100, fee included.
Cinnabon sells more formats than most food franchisors, and each one gets its own Item 7 table. A Full Bakery is the in-line shop or kiosk most buyers picture. An Express counter takes 80 to 100 square feet inside a host restaurant, usually a Schlotzsky’s, and costs a fraction as much. Food trucks and trailers are offered only to existing franchisees. Co-brands with Auntie Anne’s or Carvel cost the most because you are buying two franchises at once.
| Item 7 line (Full Bakery) | Traditional low | Traditional high | Non-traditional low | Non-traditional high |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial franchise fee | $35,500 | $35,500 | $35,500 | $35,500 |
| Construction and build-out | $87,700 | $325,500 | $43,500 | $318,000 |
| Equipment package | $52,000 | $86,200 | $45,000 | $102,500 |
| Millwork | $20,000 | $40,000 | $20,000 | $45,000 |
| Signage, menu boards, graphics | $5,700 | $38,400 | $5,700 | $25,500 |
| Computer system | $10,500 | $32,000 | $10,500 | $32,000 |
| Architect, permits, smallwares | $6,900 | $29,000 | $10,700 | $46,000 |
| One month of rent | $4,000 | $15,000 | $2,000 | $15,000 |
| Grand opening, legal, insurance, misc. | $11,050 | $31,100 | $10,250 | $34,300 |
| Training, travel, deposits, inventory | $8,600 | $37,800 | $6,100 | $38,300 |
| Additional funds, 3 months | $15,000 | $33,000 | $7,000 | $23,000 |
| Total | $256,950 | $703,500 | $196,250 | $715,100 |
“Traditional” means malls, outlet centers, strip centers, and streetside sites. “Non-traditional” covers airports, casinos, travel plazas, truck stops, universities, and similar venues. The swing in both columns is build-out. The low estimate nets out a $30,000 tenant improvement allowance, which Item 7 calls roughly the average franchisees report; the high estimate assumes your landlord gives you nothing. Rent is budgeted at a single month, so your lease is mostly outside these totals.
The other formats run on separate tables. An Express Bakery outside a new Schlotzsky’s costs $70,850 to $191,950, and one built alongside a new Schlotzsky’s costs $29,250 to $66,900, excluding the restaurant itself. A food truck costs $171,465 to $325,875 and a trailer $125,465 to $263,650. The Auntie Anne’s co-brand runs $410,675 to $1,205,400 and the Carvel co-brand $463,250 to $1,136,500. The full Item 7 tables and fee schedule are on the Cinnabon dossier.
Item 5 sets the initial fee at $35,500 for a Full Bakery, $8,000 for an Express Bakery, and $5,500 for a Concession Bakery. Co-brands carry $71,000, with $35,500 of it going to Auntie Anne’s or Carvel. One small inconsistency is worth knowing: the Auntie Anne’s co-brand Item 7 table shows a $66,000 fee line while Item 5 states $71,000, so ask which number your agreement carries. Qualifying veterans pay $20,000 for a Full Bakery. Item 5 also lets the franchisor cut the fee case by case, and franchisees actually paid between $1,000 and $30,500 during 2025.
Item 6 charges a 6% royalty on net sales, weekly. The ad fund contribution is 2.5% for bakeries in malls and other non-streetside sites and 3% for streetside bakeries. You must also spend at least 1% of net sales on local marketing each quarter, with ad fund and local spend capped together at 5%.
On the $600,536 median mall bakery, that comes to $36,032 in royalty, $15,013 to the ad fund, and $6,005 in local marketing, about $57,051 a year or 9.5% of sales. POS fees add $229 to $647 a month under the hardware purchase program, counting the license and support fees. The franchise term is 20 years for Full and Express Bakeries, and Item 12 grants no exclusive territory to any single-brand bakery.
Item 19 covers fiscal 2025, the year ended December 28, 2025, and reports net sales in three tables. Each counts only franchised bakeries that reported sales in all 52 weeks.
The mall table includes 189 of the 267 franchised enclosed mall bakeries. It drops 62 that are co-branded, 16 that did not report a full year, and 6 that closed. The median was $600,536, the average $665,401, and 82 of the 189 beat the average. The top quartile averaged $1,080,645 and the bottom quartile $343,695, with a low of $186,211 and a high of $2,216,582.
Convenience bakeries in travel plazas, travel centers, and c-stores are a different business. Across 187 of 219, the median was $164,487. Auntie Anne’s co-brands reported a $1,214,802 median across 64 of 69, but that figure combines both brands’ sales and both brands’ royalties come out of it.
The disclosure omits a lot. There is no data for Full Bakeries in strip centers, streetside sites, airports, or other venues outside malls and convenience stores. Express Bakeries, food trucks and trailers, Carvel co-brands, and the 28 affiliate-owned bakeries are all excluded. The figures are sales only, unaudited, and carry no cost or profit data. If you are pricing a streetside bakery, Item 19 does not describe it. The Cinnabon financials page lays the three tables side by side.
Franchised U.S. bakeries went from 952 at the end of 2023 to 1,002 at the end of 2024, then to 1,310 at the end of 2025. Openings ran 53, 91, and 348 across those three years. Terminations ran 26, 31, and 36. The franchisor reacquired six in 2024 and none in 2025, and the three bakeries listed as ceasing operations in 2025 were food trucks that relocated to other states.
The 2025 growth was concentrated. Utah went from 38 bakeries to 158 with 120 openings, Idaho from 13 to 74, Nevada from 22 to 48, and Wyoming from 7 to 21. The Item 19 notes identify only 20 of those 348 openings as mall, convenience, or Auntie Anne’s co-brand bakeries, which suggests most new 2025 units opened in formats Item 19 does not measure. Item 20 does not break units out by format, so ask the franchisor what those units are. Meanwhile Texas, the largest state, slid from 222 bakeries at the start of 2023 to 202 at the end of 2025.
Transfers ran 29, 65, and 45. The affiliate-owned count held at 28, all inside Schlotzsky’s restaurants. Item 20 lists 359 signed franchise agreements for bakeries not yet open and projects 95 franchised openings in 2026.
The FDD does not state a net worth or liquidity requirement, and the franchisor does not finance any part of the investment. Item 11 requires everyone in the management training program to have management experience as a restaurant owner or operator. Concession Bakeries go only to existing franchisees, and a co-brand requires Auntie Anne’s or Carvel to approve you separately.
Most single-brand bakeries live in captive venues: malls, airports, travel plazas, casinos. Your landlord matters as much as the brand. The six enclosed mall closures in 2025, all open at least a year, are a reminder that mall traffic is part of what you are buying.
Cinnabon’s closest sibling is Auntie Anne’s, sold by the same GoTo Foods parent. Its 2026 FDD puts a Full Shop at $157,795 to $835,500 and reports a $732,705 median across 489 enclosed mall shops, so the pretzel brand shows the higher mall median on a much larger sample. The Auntie Anne’s dossier carries its full tables. Crumbl is the street-retail alternative: $848,566 to $1,472,533 to open and a $1,093,071 median in gross sales across 776 locations, covered in our Crumbl cost breakdown. For the full category, see the best bakery and donut franchises, and for how these totals compare across industries, how much it costs to open a franchise.
A mall Cinnabon comes with more usable sales data than most bakery franchises at this price, as long as you remember the $600,536 median covers only mall bakeries and stops at sales. For the line-by-line read of all eight Item 7 tables and the franchise agreement terms, get the $49 full report on the Cinnabon dossier page.
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About this analysis The franchise data in this article is drawn from VetMyFranchise's structured analysis of 2,400+ Franchise Disclosure Documents filed with U.S. state regulators. See our data & methodology.
A Full Bakery costs $196,250 to $715,100 under the 2026 FDD, including the $35,500 fee. The low end assumes a non-traditional venue and a $30,000 tenant improvement allowance. Express bakeries inside a host restaurant run $29,250 to $191,950, and co-brands run $410,675 to $1,205,400.
The median franchised enclosed mall bakery reported $600,536 in net sales for fiscal 2025, across 189 bakeries. Convenience bakeries in travel plazas and c-stores reported a $164,487 median. Those are sales before rent, labor, and food cost, and the FDD discloses no profit figures.
The franchisor is Cinnabon Franchisor SPV LLC, a Delaware company formed in 2017 and based in Atlanta. It is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of GoTo Foods LLC, formerly Focus Brands, which Item 1 says is affiliated with funds managed by Roark Capital.
Yes, but you buy two franchises. You sign a Cinnabon agreement and a separate Auntie Anne's agreement, pay $35,500 to each brand, and pay each its own royalty on the sales credited to its side. Item 7 estimates $410,675 to $1,205,400 for the combined store.
No. Full Bakeries can open in malls, strip centers, and streetside sites, or in airports, casinos, travel plazas, and universities. Item 19 covers only mall and convenience-store bakeries among single-brand sites, though, so any other venue leaves you without sales data.
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