Hangry Joe's

The vendor opportunity at Hangry Joe's

Hangry Joe's is a quick-service restaurant brand headquartered in Virginia, and the most recent FDD on file is from 2026. That filing reports 114 total locations, all 114 of them franchised, with a 6.5% royalty and a 10-year initial term. Average unit volume is not disclosed in the most recent FDD. Unit count grew 20% year over year, which implies roughly 19 net new units over the period: the addressable install base is 114 units and rising, and that growth rate, not a renewal cycle, is the practical entry point.

Who controls software purchasing

Item 1 names two officers: Ki Young ("Derek") Cha, CEO, and Min Soo ("Mike") Kim, President. No CIO, CTO, or other technology officer is disclosed in the most recent FDD, so evaluation and signature sit with the same two people. There is no parent company on file and the brand appears independently owned, so no portfolio IT function stands above it. The complication is downstream: every disclosed unit is franchised, and our operator mapping finds 121 operators, none of them multi-unit, across roughly 121 located units — Virginia (42), Maryland (21), Texas (9), Illinois (8) and North Carolina (5) lead. That is one owner per store: HQ writes the standard, so the sale is made at HQ, but anything not written into the franchise agreement has to be sold to 121 operators individually. The mapped count runs slightly ahead of the 114 units the filing discloses, and the filing does not explain the difference.

Tech named in the FDD, and what is actually required

One system is mandated: Google Ads, which the FDD obliges the franchisee to use. That is a paid-media obligation written into the franchise agreement, which tells you the franchisor will compel a specific technology vendor and already controls the demand-generation layer. QuickBooks Online appears in a fee or usage clause, but the filing does not require it, so it should not be treated as an installed vendor. The remaining four names are Facebook, Instagram, Toast and Twitter, each named only. Toast is worth flagging: a POS name appearing in an FDD is not evidence Hangry Joe's mandates a POS, because nothing in this filing requires one. Point of sale, payments, online ordering, labor and accounting are all uncommitted here — the mandate precedent exists, but it has been spent on advertising rather than operations.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

Item 8 is where designated-supplier and approved-supplier requirements normally sit, and this filing produced no Item 8 extract, so the procurement model is not established by the data we hold. Item 17 is explicit. The initial term is 10 years with a 10-year successor term, and renewal requires compliance with the franchise agreement, written notice at least 180 days before expiration, a $2,500 renewal fee, a general release, and signing the then-current agreement, which may contain materially different terms. A $2,500 renewal fee with no remodel or re-equipment condition means renewal here is paperwork, not a capital event. The clause that matters is the one letting the franchisor issue a materially different agreement at renewal — that is how a new mandate reaches the whole base. The two openings that count are the new-store pipeline and the next franchise-agreement revision.

How to read the Hangry Joe's FDD

The 2026 document was filed with state franchise regulators, and the full PDF is embedded in the viewer below. Item 1 gives the entity and the two officers named above; Item 8 covers supplier obligations; Item 11 covers computer systems and required technology, where the Google Ads obligation and the QuickBooks Online reference should be read in full; Item 17 covers renewal; Item 20 carries the unit tables behind the 114-unit count. If you want Hangry Joe's scored against the rest of the US franchise corpus and returned as a ranked target list, talk to FranCloud.