How much does a Smalls Sliders franchise cost?
Opening a Smalls Sliders franchise takes a total initial investment of $1,408,948 to $2,137,427, according to the brand's 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document. The FDD's Item 19 reports median week 2025: $16,096 per week across 1 Restaurant.
Smalls Sliders franchises Smalls Sliders Restaurants. Category: Food & Beverage.
Item 7
What it costs to open a Smalls Sliders franchise
The franchisor's own estimated initial investment, as disclosed in its 2026 FDD. The total is $1,408,948 to $2,137,427. Each line below carries the FDD page it was read from.
Where the money goes
The largest costs are Restaurant Building & Site Work ($979,413 to $1,520,596), FF&E & Technology ($256,859 to $339,118), and Signage & Menu Boards ($49,926 to $111,513). Together they make up about 92% of the high-end estimate.
The initial franchise fee is $35,000, about 2.5% of the low-end total.
Our arithmetic from the Item 7 table below.
| Expenditure | Low | High | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Fee2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $35,000 | $35,000 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Initial Training Fee2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $2,500 | $2,500 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Restaurant Building & Site Work2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $979,413 | $1,520,596 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| FF&E & Technology2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $256,859 | $339,118 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Signage & Menu Boards2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $49,926 | $111,513 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Lease, Utility and Security Deposits2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $500 | $4,000 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Professional Fees2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $1,250 | $9,200 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Opening Inventory2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $26,000 | $33,000 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Minimum Grand Opening Advertising Campaign Fee2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $15,000 | $15,000 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Hiring, Uniform and Training Expenses2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $15,000 | $31,000 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Insurance2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $1,500 | $2,500 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Miscellaneous2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $1,000 | $4,000 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Additional Funds – 3 months2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 | $25,000 | $30,000 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13 |
| Total estimated initial investment2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13-14 | $1,408,948 | $2,137,427 | 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13-14 |
Source Smalls Sliders, 2026 FDD, Item 7, p. 13-14, via Public FDD bucket (storage.googleapis.com/franchiseindx_fdds) (source record). Figures read and verified 2026-10-20.
Item 19
What Smalls Sliders's FDD reports in Item 19
Median Week 2025
$16,096 per week
This is a figure per week, not what one outlet takes in a year. Smalls Sliders' 2026 FDD, Item 19, for the Year 2025. Basis: Franchised Restaurant #3's own median trading week of 2025 ($825,108 of Gross Sales over 51.3 weeks open), from the per-Restaurant table on printed p44. The FDD prints a Median Week for each of the 45 Restaurants open in 2025 - 2 affiliate and 43 franchised - and no median across them, so there is no system-wide figure to lead with; every Restaurant's row is kept as a metric. Restaurant #3 is the first franchised row of Table 1, in opening-date order.
Sample size: 1 Restaurant. The FDD also reports average week 2025 of $16,088 per week.
What the franchisor excluded from this figure
- Table 2 covers the 24 franchised Restaurants that opened during 2025 and so traded for part of the year only; the FDD's note 4 warns that a new Restaurant's sales may be much higher than its normal ongoing volume during a “honeymoon period” that may last several months.
This is a disclosure of what some existing Restaurants reported, not a projection of what a new Smalls Sliders Restaurant would earn. Your results will differ.
Source Smalls Sliders, 2026 FDD, Item 19, p. 44-45, via Public FDD bucket (storage.googleapis.com/franchiseindx_fdds) (source record). Figures read and verified 2026-10-20.
Item 20
How many Smalls Sliders outlets there are, and how many closed
Smalls Sliders ended 2025 with 43 franchised outlets and 2 company-owned outlets. In that year 24 franchised outlets opened and none left the system.
Three years at a glance
From 2023 through 2025, Smalls Sliders opened 39 franchised outlets and no outlets left the system. That is a net gain of 39, from 4 to 43 franchised outlets.
On average, about 0.0% of franchised outlets left the system each year: none left in these three years.
Our arithmetic from the FDD's Item 20 table below. "Left the system" counts every outlet the franchisor reports as terminated, not renewed, bought back, or closed for other reasons.
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Non-renewed | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 2026 FDD, Item 20, p. 48 |
| 2024 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2026 FDD, Item 20, p. 48 |
| 2023 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2026 FDD, Item 20, p. 48 |
Source Smalls Sliders, 2026 FDD, Item 20, p. 48, via Public FDD bucket (storage.googleapis.com/franchiseindx_fdds) (source record). Figures read and verified 2026-10-20.
Compare
How Smalls Sliders compares with other Food & Beverage franchises
Measured against the 256 Food & Beverage franchises on this site, using each brand's own FDD.
- Cost to open. The middle of Smalls Sliders' estimated range is $1,773,188. It costs more to open than 88% of Food & Beverage franchises here.
- Outlets leaving each year. 0.0% for Smalls Sliders. That is lower than 98% of the 165 Food & Beverage franchises with at least 10 outlets.
- Earnings disclosure. 152 of the 256 Food & Beverage franchises here publish earnings figures in Item 19. Smalls Sliders is one of them.
Our arithmetic from each brand's Item 7 and Item 20. Growth and departure comparisons leave out brands with fewer than 10 outlets, where one opening or closure distorts the figures. See every Food & Beverage franchise side by side.
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