Restaurants & Food Service · Pizza Restaurants
Donatos Pizza Franchises for Sale
A Midwestern pizza restaurant offering carryout, pickup window, delivery and dine-in from a leased storefront. Founder-family owned, with a large company-operated base alongside franchisees.
Brand Performance Snapshot
Franchised and company-owned unit counts for 2023 through 2025, as reported in the franchisor's FDD.
Existing Donatos Pizza Franchises for Sale
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Donatos Pizza Franchise Model Overview
Donatos Pizza restaurants sell pizza, sandwiches and related items through carryout, pickup windows, curbside, delivery within a defined delivery area, and dine-in. Units are leased storefront restaurants, and the investment ranges from the mid-six figures to roughly seven figures depending on how much leasehold work the landlord funds, plus a proprietary point-of-sale system bought partly through the franchisor. Royalty is a modest 4 percent of net sales, with a 5 percent of sales total marketing requirement. Franchisees must participate personally full time, and an entity owner needs an approved Operating Partner with at least a 5 percent stake or equivalent profit share working 40 or more hours a week at the restaurant. The brand began in Columbus in 1963 and is controlled by the founding family. The system is essentially flat at about 179 restaurants, with roughly 51 company-owned. Buyers of an existing restaurant pay no initial franchise fee and the software license fee is waived on transfer.
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