Your Pie Franchise Cost: Fee, Investment and Royalty

Your Pie publishes most of what a buyer needs, which makes the places where its own pages disagree with each other more instructive than a brand that publishes nothing at all. The fee and the investment range are consistent. The advertising fee, the liquidity minimum and the net-worth minimum are not.

This guide reports what Your Pie’s own franchising site says, verified on August 2, 2026, and shows the conflicts rather than resolving them by picking a favorite. Every figure is a reported number to confirm in the current Franchise Disclosure Document, which is the only version that governs your agreement. None of it is an earnings figure.

How much does a Your Pie franchise cost?

Per Your Pie’s own cost and investment page, verified August 2, 2026, the initial franchise fee is $35,000 and the total investment is $404,750 to $1,249,000.

One qualifier does a lot of work there: that range is stated as excluding real estate. Most FDD Item 7 ranges you would compare it against include leasehold improvements and site costs, so putting Your Pie’s number next to another brand’s without adjusting is not a fair comparison, and it will make Your Pie look cheaper than it is on a like-for-like basis. When you build a budget, add your actual site and lease costs on top of this range rather than assuming they sit inside it. Our FDD Item 7 guide covers what that item normally includes and why the low end is rarely a realistic figure.

Against the wider set, this puts Your Pie below the fast-casual brands with open-flame builds. Our pizza franchise cost comparison sorts the major brands by investment floor, and the Blaze Pizza breakdown shows what the higher end of fast-casual pizza looks like.

The royalty, and why the basis is the good news

Your Pie states a 5 percent royalty on net sales, and it says so consistently on both its cost page and its FAQ. Consistency is worth noting on a site that is not consistent elsewhere.

The basis matters as much as the rate. Net sales typically excludes items such as sales tax and certain discounts, which makes it a smaller number to multiply than gross sales. A 5 percent royalty on net sales is therefore not the same obligation as a 5 percent royalty on gross sales, even though both read identically in a comparison table. That is exactly why our Item 6 guide treats the basis as part of the number rather than a footnote.

The catch is that “net sales” is a defined term in the franchise agreement, and brands define it differently. Ask for the definition, not just the percentage.

Where Your Pie’s own pages disagree

This is the part to read carefully, because it is not a research gap. Multiple pages were loaded and they genuinely conflict.

Field	Cost and investment page	FAQ / requirements pages
Advertising fee	2% of net sales	2% national plus 2.5% local, based on GROSS sales
Minimum liquidity	$250,000	$150,000 (as part of a $500,000 net worth)
Minimum net worth	Form labels show $750,000	$500,000, stated repeatedly in body copy

The advertising conflict is the most consequential. One version is 2 percent of net sales. The other is 4.5 percent combined on a gross-sales basis, which is materially more money on the same volume of business. Those are not roundings of each other; they are different fee structures.

We are not resolving this by choosing the friendlier number or the more prominent page. The honest position is that Your Pie’s published materials do not agree, and the FDD is the document that settles it. Bring the discrepancy to the franchisor directly and ask which structure the current agreement uses.

Single units are actually available

Your Pie’s FAQ states directly that the brand is open to both single-store and multi-unit franchisees, and that it has incentives for experienced candidates looking to develop entire markets. Multi-unit is encouraged, not required.

That is a genuine differentiator in this category and worth weighing. Several brands in the same investment neighborhood gate new territory behind three-unit or five-unit development commitments, which changes the capital requirement by a multiple and puts them out of reach for a first-time owner-operator regardless of the published Item 7 range. If a single unit is what you want, brands that will actually sell you one are a smaller set than the cost tables suggest.

Territory is a separate constraint. Your Pie lists open markets including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Montana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri, with a longer “coming soon” list that differs slightly between two of its own pages. It describes territories as protected based on population density and trade-area characteristics. Confirm your specific market’s status rather than reading it off a map.

On size, the site says over 75 locations across 18 states in one place and over 70 across 16 states in another, which is the sort of drift you would expect from pages updated at different times. It does not publish a franchised-versus-company-owned split anywhere, so ask for FDD Item 20.

Questions to ask before you rely on any figure

• Which advertising structure is current: 2 percent of net sales, or 2 percent national plus 2.5 percent local on gross sales? Get it from FDD Item 6.
• How does the franchise agreement DEFINE net sales for royalty purposes, and what is excluded?
• What are the current liquidity and net-worth minimums, given that the site states $150,000, $250,000, $500,000 and $750,000 in different places?
• Since the investment range excludes real estate, what should I budget for site and lease costs in my specific market?
• What is the initial term and what does renewal require? Neither is published on the site.
• What does Item 20 show for the franchised-versus-company-owned split, and for closures and transfers?
• Will a franchise attorney and an accountant review the full FDD with me before I commit?