How much revenue did the franchisor and its affiliates earn from franchisee purchases in the last fiscal year?
0Item 8
We have had no sales made (directly or through affiliates) to franchisees.
From the filings
No mandated tech stack
Crust Franchising
Quick service restaurantSoftware vendors evaluating Crust Franchising will find a very small, independently owned quick-service restaurant system. The most recent FDD (2024) shows just one mapped operator across a single location in Minnesota, with no multi-unit owners. There is no disclosed mandated technology, no named HQ executives, and no procurement or renewal restrictions—meaning the owner-operator likely controls all software purchasing directly.
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Live signals
Total units
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system-wide
Unit growth YoY
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vs prior filing
AUV
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Item 19, 2024
Royalty
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of gross sales
Ad fund
—
national + local
Initial fee
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per unit
Investment range
—
all-in, Item 7
Procurement
Approved supplier
from the filing
Item 19
No claims
from the filing
Franchisor behaviours
What the franchisor requires
5 requirements the franchisor states in this filing, each in its own words; 1 explicit no; 15 questions the text does not settle, which is not a no.
How the franchisor buys
Item 8 gives this proportion in one of two shapes: separate percentages for establishing the business and for operating it, or one figure covering "establishing and operating" together. Where they are separate, answer with the operating percentage; where the passage gives only the combined figure, answer with that. What percentage of the franchisee's purchases must come from designated or approved suppliers?
95Item 8
We estimate that your product purchases from approved suppliers and according to our specifications will represent approximately 95% of your total product purchases in establishing the Franchised Business, and approximately 95% in the continuing operation of the Franchised Business.
Marketing
Is a minimum grand opening advertising spend required?
YesItem 8
You must spend at least $1,500 for initial opening marketing and promotional programs in conjunction with the Franchised Business’s soft opening and grand opening.
Operations
Must the franchisee buy products from a designated distributor?
YesItem 8
You must buy all Products, equipment, ingredients, supplies, materials, and other products used or offered for sale at the Franchised Business only from suppliers (including manufacturers, distributors, and other sources) that we have approved in writing.
Must equipment be purchased from designated or approved suppliers?
YesItem 8
You must buy all Products, equipment, ingredients, supplies, materials, and other products used or offered for sale at the Franchised Business only from suppliers (including manufacturers, distributors, and other sources) that we have approved in writing.
The filing answers no to 1 question
- Must the franchisee participate in a regional advertising cooperative when one exists?Item 8
Who buys here
The buyer at this brand
The decision-maker a vendor sells to at this scale, and the gaps they’re paid to close, derived from our data by segment and unit count, not a guess.
The franchisor's owner/CEO decides; an ops or franchise-development lead may evaluate.
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The vendor opportunity at Crust Franchising
Crust Franchising presents a micro-scale addressable market for software vendors. The 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document reveals a system of approximately one franchised unit, located in Minnesota, with no company-owned locations. There are no multi-unit operators on file—the sole mapped operator runs a single unit. Year-over-year unit growth is not disclosed, and key financial metrics like average unit volume (AUV), royalty rate, and initial term length are absent from the available data. For a vendor, this means the total addressable footprint is one location, and any sale would be a single-unit deal.
Who controls software purchasing
The FDD does not list any executives at the franchisor level. Item 1 contains no named officers, directors, or key personnel. In a system this small, the operator is almost certainly the sole decision-maker for software purchases. There is no indication of a centralized IT or procurement function. Vendors should expect to engage directly with the owner-operator, who likely handles all operational, financial, and technology decisions without corporate oversight or approval layers.
Mandated and current tech stack
Crust Franchising’s 2024 FDD includes no Item 11 technology mandates or recommendations. No POS system, back-office platform, payroll provider, inventory management tool, or any other software vendor is named. This absence suggests the franchisee has full autonomy to select and implement whatever technology they choose. For a software vendor, this is a blank slate—but also means there is no existing tech stack to integrate with or displace, and no franchisor-driven upgrade cycle to leverage.
Procurement, renewals, and timing
The FDD lacks an Item 8 extract, so there is no language around designated suppliers, approved vendor lists, or purchasing cooperatives. The procurement model appears entirely open. Similarly, no Item 17 renewal terms are available, so contract windows, renewal cycles, and termination timelines are unknown. Without a franchisor-imposed rhythm, software purchasing is likely event-driven—triggered by the operator’s own needs, pain points, or growth plans rather than a fixed calendar.
How to read the Crust Franchising FDD
The 2024 Crust Franchising FDD is embedded below for direct review. It was filed with state franchise regulators and contains the franchisor’s disclosures on fees, territory, obligations, and financial performance representations (if any). Given the limited data extracted, vendors should pay close attention to Items 1, 8, 11, and 17 for any updates on management, procurement, technology requirements, and renewal terms that may appear in future filings. For a ranked list of franchise systems that match your software’s ideal customer profile, FranCloud can help you prioritize the right targets.
Questions vendors ask
Crust Franchising, answered from the filing
The 2024 FDD does not list any HQ executives. With only one operator on file, purchasing authority likely rests with that individual owner-operator, not a corporate buying center.
The 2024 FDD contains no mandated or recommended POS, operational, or IT systems. There are no Item 11 technology requirements disclosed.
Based on the 2024 FDD, the system comprises approximately 1 unit, all franchised, located in Minnesota. No company-owned units are reported.
The 2024 FDD does not include an Item 8 procurement extract. Without designated or approved supplier language, the model appears open, leaving purchasing decisions to the franchisee.
No renewal terms or contract windows are disclosed in the 2024 FDD (Item 17 not extracted). With a single-unit operator, timing is likely ad hoc rather than cycle-driven.
The Crust Franchising 2024 FDD was filed with state franchise regulators. You can review the embedded PDF viewer below for full details on the franchise offering.
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Operator footprint
Who runs the locations
1 operators run 1 mapped locations. 0 of them are multi-unit. Aggregate counts from the filing; no names.
Operators by units owned
Single-unit1
Top states by locations
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