TAKAGI COFFEE website
Mandatoryprovide you with access to, and integrate information about your Outlet into, the TAKAGI COFFEE website
HQ-led decisions
Takagi Coffee
Quick service restaurantSoftware purchasing at Takagi Coffee appears to flow through HQ, given the franchisor's mandate of the TAKAGI COFFEE website. The addressable market is extremely small, with only 1 mapped operator across approximately 1 located unit. Vendors evaluating this brand should note the single-unit, single-operator structure and the absence of disclosed multi-unit operators.
Mandated & recommended tech
The systems vendors compete with
1 of these are mandated in the franchise agreement. Each is named in Item 11 of the filing — the incumbents a challenger must displace or integrate with.
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 the corpus 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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Live signals
Total units
0
0 franchised
Unit growth YoY
—
vs prior filing
AUV
—
Item 19, 2025
Royalty
5%
of gross sales
Ad fund
1%
national + local
Initial fee
$30K
per unit
Investment range
$386K–$773K
all-in, Item 7
Procurement
Approved supplier
from the filing
The vendor opportunity at Takagi Coffee
Takagi Coffee is a quick-service restaurant brand headquartered in California. For software vendors, the immediate addressable market is exceptionally small: the most recent Franchise Disclosure Document (2025) maps just 1 operator across approximately 1 located unit, all in Illinois. No multi-unit operators are recorded, and the unit-band split shows a single unit in the 1:1 band, with zero operators in the 2–9, 10–24, or 25+ categories. Year-over-year unit growth is not disclosed.
The brand charges a 5.0% royalty on an undisclosed average unit volume (AUV). The initial franchise term runs 10 years. With no parent company on file, Takagi Coffee appears independently owned. For a vendor, this is a micro-account: one decision point, one location, one potential sale.
Who controls software purchasing
The FDD’s Item 1 names Jimmie Evans as Agent for Service of Process. No CIO, CTO, VP of IT, or procurement lead is listed. In a system this small, software purchasing authority almost certainly sits with the franchisor’s ownership or the individual named in the FDD. There is no multi-unit operator layer to navigate—vendors are effectively selling to HQ for a single-unit system.
Mandated and current tech stack
The only technology mandate extracted from the 2025 FDD is the TAKAGI COFFEE website. No point-of-sale system, online ordering platform, loyalty engine, inventory management tool, or HR/payroll vendor is named as mandated or recommended. This does not mean such systems are absent—only that the FDD does not disclose them as required or suggested technology. Vendors should treat the tech stack as largely unknown and unmandated beyond the brand’s own web presence.
Procurement, renewals, and timing
Item 8 procurement signals were not extracted, so the franchisor’s supply-chain and purchasing model—whether designated supplier, approved supplier, or fully open—remains undisclosed in the available data. On renewals, Item 17 provides some clarity: franchisees may add two additional 5-year terms by delivering written notice at least 180 days before the existing term ends. However, the franchisor is not obligated to renew if certain conditions in section 5.2(c) of the Franchise Agreement apply. With only one unit, software contract timing is idiosyncratic and likely tied to the single operator’s initial signing date and any renewal windows.
How to read the Takagi Coffee FDD
The 2025 FDD is embedded below. It is the definitive source for Item 11 technology mandates, Item 8 procurement obligations, and Item 17 renewal conditions. For vendors, the key takeaway is scale: one unit, one operator, one state. The decision-maker is concentrated at HQ, and the mandated tech footprint is minimal. If your software solves a problem for single-unit quick-service operators, the FDD confirms there is no committee, no multi-unit complexity—just a direct path to the person in charge. For a ranked target list of franchise systems that match your ideal customer profile, FranCloud can help.
Questions vendors ask
Takagi Coffee, answered from the filing
The FDD lists Jimmie Evans as Agent for Service of Process, but no dedicated IT or procurement executive is named. Given the single-unit footprint, purchasing decisions likely rest with this individual or the franchisor's ownership directly.
The 2025 FDD mandates the TAKAGI COFFEE website. No POS, back-office, or operational technology vendors are disclosed as mandated or recommended in the available data.
The FDD indicates approximately 1 located unit, operated by 1 mapped operator with no multi-unit operators. The sole unit is in Illinois.
Item 8 procurement signals were not extracted from the FDD, so the model—whether designated supplier, approved supplier, or open—is not disclosed in the available data.
The initial franchise term is 10 years, with two additional 5-year renewal options requiring 180 days' written notice. With only one unit, contract windows are unpredictable and likely tied to the single operator's cycle.
The 2025 FDD is filed with state franchise regulators. You can review it directly in the embedded PDF viewer below.
Source
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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
| IL | 1 |
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