Restaurants & Food Service · Seafood Restaurants
Captain D's Franchises for Sale
A fast-casual fried and grilled seafood restaurant, usually a freestanding drive-thru box with 32 to 44 seats. A Southern chain where the franchisor runs more than half the units itself.
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Franchised and company-owned unit counts for 2023 through 2025, as reported in the franchisor's FDD.
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Captain D's Franchise Model Overview
Captain D's restaurants serve hand-battered fried fish, grilled fish, shrimp, chicken and home-style sides in a fast-casual format with counter ordering, dining room seating and, for freestanding prototypes, a drive-thru. The Nashville-based chain is private-equity owned and operates in 23 states, mostly in the Southeast. It is unusual in that company-owned restaurants outnumber franchised ones, roughly 290 corporate units against about 230 franchised at the end of 2025, and both counts have been slipping. A new freestanding restaurant is a seven-figure build before land, with a full fryer-and-grill kitchen and 20 to 35 employees; smaller endcap and inline prototypes cut the cost roughly in half. Royalty is a comparatively low 4.5 percent, with advertising around two to two and a half percent. Every franchisee signs a development agreement first, and the owner or a designated operator with at least ten percent equity must be personally involved. Terms are long at twenty years.
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