Sir Speedy Franchise Costs, Fees & FDD

Year Business Began: 1968

Franchising Since: 1968

Headquarters: Mission Viejo, California

Estimated Number of Units: 130

Franchise Description: Sir Speedy, Inc. is the franchisor. The franchisee will own and operate a Sir Speedy center offering marketing, sign, and printing services. A Sir Speedy center is a full-service business communication, data management and marketing services provider. Centers produce products and services, including graphic design, color and black and white printing, bindery, digital services, mailing services, marketing services, ad specialties and promotional products, posters, banners and signs, and provides other related products and services requested by a customer. Digitally based products and services are required. Jobs come to a Sir Speedy center on digital media, through the internet, and in conceptual or hard copy form. The services are media independent.
Training Overview: The franchisor will train the franchisee and one other person at its Print Management University currently located at its corporate facility in Mission Viejo, California. This mandatory, comprehensive university currently begins with an orientation on a Sunday and lasts six days. Total university instructional time currently runs for 44 hours. The objective of the university is to thoroughly train franchisees in four operating systems: production management, marketing and sales management, business and financial management, and employee management. Franchisees leave the university with a customized business plan to implement and follow during the first year of operation. After university franchisees will receive an additional 11 days of on-site training at their Sir Speedy center where the franchisor will assist them in the setup and opening of their center, provide on-site digital production training, and provide hands-on training with outside sales. The franchisor will provide the franchisee with an opening and training representative to help them set up the center for five days. The franchisor will also provide franchisees with an experienced sales trainer who will spend three days with them on sales calls. There are no mandatory, additional training programs or refresher courses.

Territory Granted: The franchisor will grant franchisees a protected territory where it will not establish another Sir Speedy franchise or a company-owned Sir Speedy center. The size of the territory varies according to the number of businesses in the area and will be at least one-half mile radius. Franchisees have no minimum sales quota to maintain their territory. There are no circumstances that permit Sir Speedy to modify the territory without the franchisee’s consent. The franchisor may not grant an exclusive territory in dense metropolitan areas and it may grant franchises in numerous locations in these areas beyond an address only.

Obligations and Restrictions: Franchisees must directly supervise and participate in the day-to-day operations of the Sir Speedy center. If franchisees hire a manager, then the manager must sign a written agreement to maintain confidentiality. The manager need not have an equity interest in the franchise. The applicant and their spouse are required to sign the personal guaranty. Franchisees must offer and sell only those goods and services that Sir Speedy has approved. Franchisees may not conduct any business other than that of the Sir Speedy center at the franchised location, except upon the franchisor’s written authorization.

Term of Agreement and Renewal: The length of the initial franchise term is 20 years. If franchisees are in good standing, they can renew for an additional 20-year term.

Financial Assistance: The franchisor does not offer direct or indirect financing to franchisees. The franchisor does not guarantee a franchisee’s note, lease or obligation.

Estimated Initial Investment

Name of Fee	Low	High
Initial Franchise Fee	$55,000	$55,000
Purchased Equipment (including computer hardware and software)	$64,190	$64,190
Leased Equipment (monthly)	$2,500	$5,000
Leasehold Improvements/Real Estate	$5,000	$25,000
Additional Funds – 20 Months	$125,000	$150,000
ESTIMATED TOTAL (for new franchise)	$251,690	$299,190

Other Fees

Type of Fee	Amount
Continuing Franchise Fee	4% of gross sales for first 12 months, then 6% of gross sales.
Network Advertising Fee	1% of gross sales for first 12 months, then 2% of gross sales.
Additional Training Fee	$2,000 per person.
Transfer Fee	$10,000
Audit	Cost of audit.
Late Payment Interest	California judgment rate, currently 10%.
Late Fee	$250 plus interest on the unpaid amount at a rate equal to 1.5% per month or the highest commercial contract interest rate the law allows, whichever is more.
Failure to Report Sales	$250 per week.
Insufficient Funds Fee	$250
Costs of Collection	The franchisor’s actual costs.

The above information has been compiled from the FDD of Sir Speedy. Year of FDD: 2025.
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