Baked Goods: Pretzels

Pretzelmaker

Beverly Hills, CA · Founded 1991 · PRTZ

PM Franchising, LLC offers franchises to develop and operate Pretzelmaker restaurants specializing in selling hand-rolled soft pretzels of various flavors, frozen pretzels, pretzel dogs, pretzel bites, and other pretzel-related products and toppings.

Read the 2025 FDD ↗www.pretzelmaker.com ↗

2026 Franchise 500

Unranked

129

units (2024)

—

year over year

Units by Year

157

2021

147

2022

136

2023

129

2024

Total outlets at year end, from FDD Item 20.

The Investment

Initial investment

FDD Item 7

Franchise fee

$25,000

FDD Item 5

Ad fund

FDD Item 6

Financial performance

Yes

FDD Item 19 disclosure

Royalty

7% of total net sales

Leadership

None
None
Drew Martin
Chief Information Officer of FAT
Mason Wiederhorn
Chief Brand Officer of FAT
Allen Z. Sussman
General Counsel of FAT
Donald J. Berchtold
Chief Concept Officer of FAT
Mark Whittle
SVP Franchise Strategy & Compliance of FAT
Gregg Nettleton
President – Casual Dining Division of FAT

On File

FDD years

2025 2022

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Franchisee records

Current roster rows

Signed, not open

FDD Item 20, Table 5

Franchising for

17 yrs

Franchise Disclosure Documents

PDFPretzelmaker FDD 2025Most recent · opens in a new tab PDFPretzelmaker FDD 2022Opens in a new tab

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