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Scooter's Coffee vs Dunkin — which franchise is the better buy?

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	Scooter's Coffee	Dunkin
Disclosure honesty	A	B
Investment from	$658,898	$142,000
Total fees	8%	10.9%
Outlets	906	8,780
Lawsuits	2	9

Scooter's Coffee: what their numbers say

Discloses 5-year average gross sales, customer tickets, detailed 2025 P&L by quartile, same-store growth, and new store first-month sales. Excludes non-traditional stores and affiliate outlets.

Dunkin: what their numbers say

Historical 2025 AUVs for 7,010 franchised restaurants. Median AUV $1,297,694; 45% above average. Excludes new, closed, part-time outlets.

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