City Wide Franchise Company Enterprises

The vendor opportunity at City Wide

City Wide Franchise Company Enterprises operates 104 total units—98 franchised and 6 company-owned—in the home-services segment. The brand’s average unit volume sits at $24,352,332, with a 5.0% royalty and a 10-year initial franchise term. Year-over-year unit growth is 5.4%, signaling a slowly expanding footprint. For software vendors, the addressable market is 98 franchised locations where technology decisions are centralized at the franchisor level. The high AUV suggests franchisees have the revenue capacity to invest in tools that improve operations, but any sale must first clear HQ.

Who controls software purchasing

The 2026 FDD lists five executives in Item 1: Founder Frank Oddo, Founder and CEO Jeffrey B. Oddo, President Michael Karp, General Counsel Nile Kaya, and Chief Financial Officer Molly Schaar. With multiple mandated systems bearing the CITY WIDE brand, purchasing authority clearly resides at headquarters. The CEO and President are the most likely decision-makers for new vendor relationships, while the CFO likely signs off on budget. There is no CIO or CTO named, which may mean technology decisions are made by the executive team collectively. Vendors should prepare to engage at the C-suite level, not with individual franchisees.

Mandated and current tech stack

City Wide mandates five systems in its FDD: CITY WIDE Accounting Services, City Wide Client Management System, CITY WIDE Software, City Wide YOU, and Google Business Profile. All but Google Business Profile appear to be proprietary or franchisor-branded platforms, suggesting a closed technology ecosystem. The accounting and client management mandates cover core operational functions, while City Wide YOU may serve as an intranet or training portal. Google Business Profile is the only third-party tool explicitly required, indicating the brand controls its local search presence centrally. No POS, payroll, scheduling, or CRM vendors are disclosed, which could signal either in-house solutions or gaps a vendor might fill—if they can get past HQ.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

Item 8 of the FDD contains no extract, meaning no designated or approved supplier list is publicly disclosed. This reinforces the picture of a franchisor that keeps procurement in-house. Renewal terms, detailed in Item 17, run five years and require franchisees to be in good standing, notify City Wide 12 months in advance, sign the then-current franchise agreement (which may materially differ from the original), pay a successor fee of 50% of the initial franchise fee, and sign a general release of claims. These conditions create natural windows for technology evaluation: when a franchisee approaches renewal, they may be open to new tools that help meet the Annual Revenue Per Capita Growth requirement. New unit openings, given 5.4% growth, also represent greenfield opportunities.

How to read the City Wide FDD

The 2026 City Wide FDD is embedded below. Key sections for software vendors include Item 1 (executives), Item 11 (mandated systems), Item 8 (procurement restrictions), and Item 17 (renewal conditions). The document confirms a franchisor with tight operational control and a proprietary tech stack. No parent company is on file, and no operators are mapped in our corpus, so the buying center is entirely at the Kansas-based HQ. For a ranked target list of franchise systems matched to your software category, FranCloud can help.