How many company-owned Marble Slab Creamery outlets were reacquired from franchisees in 2023?
Marble_Slab_Creamery Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
| Outlets | Outlets | Outlets | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| at | Reacquired | Outlets | at | ||||
| Start | Outlets | from | Outlets | Sold to | End of | ||
| State | Year | of Year | Opened | Franchisees | Closed | Franchisees | the Year |
| Total | 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Item 20 — OUTLETS AND FRANCHISEE INFORMATION (FDD pages 95–100)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Marble Slab Creamery FDD, in 2023, there were zero company-owned outlets reacquired from franchisees.
Table No. 3, "Status of Franchised Outlets For Fiscal Years 2022 to 2024," provides a detailed breakdown of outlet activity by state, including reacquired operations. However, this table pertains specifically to franchised outlets, not company-owned ones.
Table No. 4, which would have provided information on company-owned outlets, is not included in the provided excerpts. Table No. 7 provides information on the reacquisition of franchise locations. In 2023, zero franchise locations were reacquired to become company-owned. This suggests that Marble Slab Creamery did not focus on reacquiring franchise locations to convert them into company-owned operations during that period.
For a prospective franchisee, this information indicates that Marble Slab Creamery primarily focuses on franchise-owned operations rather than managing a significant number of company-owned stores. This may reflect the brand's strategy of expanding through franchising and relying on franchisees to operate individual locations.