Are Brain Balance Satellite Centers included in the same data set as standard Centers?
Brain_Balance Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
We have four Brain Balance® Satellite Centers which operated for a full year as of the date of this Disclosure Document. We have included these Centers in the same data set as our standard Centers. Although a Satellite Center outsources some of its administrative tasks to its related standard Center, it has the same capacity for enrollments and revenue as a standard Center.
Source: Item 19 — FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPRESENTATIONS (FDD pages 61–65)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Brain Balance's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the financial performance data includes both standard and satellite centers. Brain Balance reports that they had four satellite centers operating for the full year as of the date of the FDD and included these in the same data set as the standard centers. The FDD states that although a Brain Balance Satellite Center outsources some administrative tasks to its related standard center, it maintains the same capacity for enrollments and revenue as a standard center.
This inclusion means that the revenue figures presented in Item 19 reflect the performance of a mixed group of standard and satellite Brain Balance centers. A prospective franchisee should consider that the financial performance may vary between these two types of centers, despite the franchisor's assertion that they have the same capacity for revenue.
Specifically, in 2023, the average gross sales for all 70 Brain Balance centers was $614,976, with the highest grossing center reaching $1,934,476 and the lowest at $98,705. In 2024, the average gross sales for 61 centers was $686,778, with a high of $2,430,160 and a low of $187,073. These figures include the satellite centers, so a franchisee should evaluate whether the presence of satellite centers skews the overall financial performance data, and if so, how that might affect their potential business outcomes.