2004 Franchise 500 Rankings

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Rank Franchise Startup Costs
1 Subway
Submarine sandwiches & salads
$84,300 - $258,300
2 Curves
Women's fitness & weight-loss center
$28,170 - $39,595
3 Quiznos Sub
Submarine sandwiches, soups, salads
$24,100 - $341,800
4 7-Eleven Inc.
Convenience store
$40,500 - $775,300
5 Jackson Hewitt Tax Service
Tax preparation services
$48,600 - $91,800
6 The UPS Store/Mail Boxes Etc.
Postal, business & communications services
$154,947 - $293,473
7 McDonald's
Hamburgers, chicken, salads
$995,900 - $1,842,700
8 Jani-King
Commercial cleaning
$11,400 - $35,050
9 Dunkin' Donuts
Coffee, doughnuts, baked goods
$537,750 - $1,765,300
10 Baskin-Robbins USA Co.
Ice cream, frozen yogurt, frozen beverages
$41,450 - $373,595
11 Jiffy Lube Int'l. Inc.
Fast oil change
$229,000 - $323,000
12 InterContinental Hotels Group
Hotels
$5,136,370 - $93,855,035
13 Sonic Drive In Restaurants
Drive-in restaurant
$1,209,300 - $3,413,800
14 Domino's Pizza LLC
Pizza, breadsticks, buffalo wings
$119,950 - $461,700
15 Super 8
Hotels
$285,445 - $5,396,983
16 Kumon Math & Reading Centers
Supplemental education
$32,958 - $131,070
17 Chem-Dry Carpet Drapery & Upholstery Cleaning
Carpet, drapery & upholstery cleaning; tile & stone care
$25,600 - $121,450
18 ServiceMaster Clean
Comm'l./residential cleaning & disaster restoration
$20,926 - $132,623
19 RE/MAX Int'l. Inc.
Real estate
$40,000 - $191,000
20 Snap-on Tools
Professional tools & equipment
$17,619 - $281,959
21 Burger King Corp.
Hamburgers, fries, breakfast
$294,000 - $2,800,000
22 Jan-Pro Franchising Int'l. Inc.
Commercial cleaning
$3,145 - $50,405
23 Merle Norman Cosmetics
Cosmetics studio
$33,300 - $168,700
24 Papa John's Int'l. Inc.
Pizza
$113,823 - $528,123
25 Jazzercise Inc.
Dance fitness classes
$2,980 - $75,500
26 RadioShack
Consumer electronics
$69,900
27 Days Inn
Hotels
$406,945 - $6,704,617
28 Liberty Tax Service
Income-tax preparation
$56,800 - $69,900
29 Midas Int'l.
Auto repair & maintenance services
$323,000 - $418,880
30 Dairy Queen
Soft-serve dairy products & sandwiches
$372,802 - $1,771,860
31 Supercuts
Hair salon
$111,000 - $239,700
32 Matco Tools
Tools
$79,926 - $187,556
33 Servpro
Insurance/disaster restoration & cleaning
$102,250 - $161,150
34 CleanNet USA Inc.
Commercial cleaning
$5,425 - $91,150
35 Coverall Cleaning Concepts
Commercial cleaning
$6,300 - $35,900
36 Great Clips
Hair salon
$109,400 - $202,500
37 Medicine Shoppe Int'l. Inc.
Pharmacy
$74,300 - $253,400
38 Fantastic Sams Hair Salons
Full-service hair salon
$118,000 - $230,850
39 Hampton Inn/Hampton Inn & Suites
Midprice hotels
$3,716,000 - $13,148,800
40 Choice Hotels Int'l.
Hotels
$1,369,800 - $15,499,000
41 Hot Stuff Foods LLC
Fast-food systems for nontraditional markets
$54,600 - $119,500
42 Taco Bell Corp.
Quick-service Mexican restaurant
$1,324,300 - $2,465,500
43 MRINetwork
Permanent placement & contract staffing services
$73,450 - $127,430
44 Miracle-Ear Inc.
Hearing instruments
$122,500 - $570,000
45 Century 21 Real Estate LLC
Real estate
$22,010 - $523,207
46 Sylvan Learning
Supplemental education
$179,069 - $305,090
47 Pearle Vision
Eye-care center
$84,300 - $584,600
49 Meineke Car Care Centers
Exhaust systems, shocks, brakes, struts, oil changes
$182,534 - $387,155
50 Papa Murphy's
Take-&-bake pizza
$171,655 - $353,225
51 Hardee's
Burgers, chicken, biscuits
$1,182,000 - $1,583,500
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