Barrio Burrito Bar

The 2025 FDD's Item 7 pegs the master franchise fee at $75,000, granting rights to recruit, train, and support sub-franchisees in a protected U.S. territory while running your own flagship Barrio Burrito Bar as a training hub. Ongoing fees extract 50-75% of royalties from subs (you retain the rest), 33.3-100% of their brand fund contributions, plus a mandated $2,500-$3,000 monthly local advertising commitment—fees that stack up aggressively to fuel the Canadian-headquartered brand's expansion. Without an Item 19 disclosure, there's no median gross sales or profit figures, forcing investors to scrutinize sub-unit viability indirectly; the model's success rides on your ability to sell and sustain multiple locations, as masters forgo direct single-unit ops.

System health shows promise amid small scale: just 9 total locations in 2025, surging 50% from 6 in 2024, with 15 projected new units signaling franchisor ambition since launching in 2017. Item 20 likely tracks this uptick, but low unit count amplifies risks like unproven saturation in U.S. markets and dependency on sub-franchisee recruitment. For investors eyeing multi-unit builds, the +50% growth hooks attention, yet the opaque earnings picture and hefty ongoing splits demand modeling conservative sub-unit performance—think mid-tier fast-casual AUVs—to gauge if master royalties justify the $75K entry and operational oversight.