For the Buona financial performance representation, how many single-brand free-standing restaurants with drive-thrus are included in the data?
Buona Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
The 10 Buona restaurants included in the 3 tables below are single brand free standing restaurants with a drive through (identified in the tables below as Stores #1 through #10). All 10 of the Buona restaurants opened on or after January 2013 and were in operation for the full 52 operating weeks from January 1, 2024 through December 29, 2024.
The length of time the 10 restaurants have been in operation as of December 31, 2023 ranged from 12 years to 3 years, 7 months.
The operations of the 10 affiliate-owned units included in 3 tables below do not differ materially from those of a new franchised Buona Business that is a free standing location with a drive through window except that the affiliate-owned units sell pizza, and the new franchised Buona Businesses will not sell pizza. Information is provided below on what percentage of total sales of the affiliate-owned units was derived from the sale of pizza products.
If you will be establishing an inline location without a drive through window, you should not rely on these numbers and should review the data below regarding our one affiliate-owned unit that is an inline location.
Source: Item 19 — FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPRESENTATIONS (FDD pages 60–75)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Buona's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the financial performance representation includes data from 10 affiliate-owned single-brand free-standing restaurants with drive-thrus. These restaurants, identified as Stores #1 through #10, all opened on or after January 2013 and operated for the full 52 weeks from January 1, 2024, through December 29, 2024. The length of time these restaurants had been in operation as of December 31, 2023, ranged from 3 years, 7 months, to 12 years.
The FDD specifies that the operations of these affiliate-owned units do not materially differ from those of a new franchised Buona Business that is a free-standing location with a drive-thru, with the exception that the affiliate-owned units sell pizza, while new franchised Buona Businesses will not. The document provides information on the percentage of total sales derived from pizza products in these affiliate-owned units.
It is important to note that if a prospective franchisee is considering establishing an inline location without a drive-thru, the franchisor advises against relying on the data from these free-standing restaurants with drive-thrus. Instead, they should review the data regarding the one affiliate-owned inline location provided in the FDD. The financial data presented for these 10 restaurants does not include all expenses incurred by a Buona restaurant, so prospective franchisees should consider this when evaluating the potential financial performance of a franchise.