Franchises that use Square

Square is the point-of-sale system you'll find behind a specific kind of franchise: quick-service restaurants, food-retail brands, and personal-services brands. Brands like Kona Ice, American Poolplayers Association, Travelin' Tom's Coffee, and Scoop Shop Program disclose Square as a mandated system in their latest FDD.

Typically under 20 unitsAUV $500K–$1MConcentrated in NY, FL, CA

Verified from the filings

Brands that mandate Square

BrandSegmentUnitsAUV
Kona Icequick-service restaurants1,933—
American Poolplayers Associationpersonal-services brands358—
Travelin' Tom's Coffeequick-service restaurants334—
Scoop Shop Programfood-retail brands173—
X GOLF FRANCHISE CORPORATIONX-Golffitness studios133$113K
Frios Franchising Companyfood-retail brands114$92K
Taziki's Franchisingquick-service restaurants100$1.92M
DonutNVfood-retail brands99$106K
Cinnaholic Franchisingquick-service restaurants83$313K
Zoom Room Franchisingpersonal-services brands60$410K
Mobility Plushome-services brands53—
Bambu Franchisingquick-service restaurants52—

The full picture

Selling against Square? Get every brand that runs it, with the HQ buyer.

These are examples. FranCloud tracks every franchise that mandates Square, who controls that decision (HQ or operator), and how each brand scores against what you sell.

What franchisors in this category require

How often a franchise agreement binds the point-of-sale system

Share of current filings whose text settles the question and says yes, read from each filing with the franchisor’s own sentence. Filings that leave a question unaddressed are outside the share: silence in an FDD is not a no.

QuestionSay yesFilings settled
Does the franchisor have independent access to the data in the franchisee's POS or computer system?95% say yes3,214 filings settled

Common questions

Franchises on Square, answered

Square is mandated mostly by quick-service restaurants, food-retail brands, and personal-services brands. Square turns up in lighter, owner-operated concepts: mobile and counter-service formats as much as full restaurants.
Brands like Kona Ice, American Poolplayers Association, Travelin' Tom's Coffee, Scoop Shop Program, and X GOLF FRANCHISE CORPORATIONX-Golf disclose Square as a mandated system in their FDD. FranCloud tracks the rest, with the buyer and decision-maker at each.
FranCloud reads Item 11 of every franchise's Franchise Disclosure Document, where brands disclose the systems they require operators to run. Square mandates come straight from those filings.

Every quick-service restaurants, food-retail brands, account, scored to your product.

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