QSR Landscape

Quick-service franchise brands, ranked by what they cost to run.

Döner Haus franchise

Döner Haus: $359,500–$586,000 total investment, $35,000 franchise fee, 5% total ongoing fee. Read out of the filings.

Compiled from public filings and operator sites Reviewed 2026-08-15

5% Total ongoing fee
$359,500–$586,000 Total investment
6 Units, 2026
2023 Founded
Franchising since
NY New York
700–1,200 Typical size, sq ft
Yes Item 19

Standing-service imbiss rather than a seated restaurant, which is what puts the footprint at the bottom of the range in this set.

Fees

Initial franchise fee $35,000
Royalty 3%
Brand fund 2%
Local advertising Not required
Total ongoing 5% of gross sales

Opening one

Total investment $359,500–$586,000
Typical size 700–1,200 sq ft

The system

Format German döner imbiss
Headquarters New York, NY
Founded 2023
Units 6
Item 19 Yes. Discloses figures for a system with a short operating history, corporate and early franchised units.

A compact German-döner peer

Döner Haus is a German-döner quick-service system founded in 2023. The 2026 FDD row records six outlets and a 700-to-1,200-square-foot format. Its official location and franchise page shows kiosk ordering, walk-in traffic and standing-height service in compact urban stores. Those are operator descriptions; the issued filing remains the source for the ranked investment and fee figures.

A Döner Haus storefront with its serving window onto the street
A street-facing service window and shallow frontage illustrate the compact format assumed by the 2026 filing.

The dataset’s six-shop count covers five New York locations and one in Los Angeles. That short operating history is the critical context beside every other number. It supplies fewer annual cycles, renewals, transfers and closure observations than older systems in the table. A low fee stack does not cancel that limitation.

Development is not an outlet count

The company separately publishes a development pipeline by market. Contracted units are obligations or plans, not shops trading, and they do not belong in the Item 20 unit count until the applicable disclosure records them as outlets.

US map with six contracted states filled gold beside a key of unit counts by market
Operator-supplied: Döner Haus development artwork. The keyed numbers are contracted units, not independently verified openings or a map of the wider US döner category.

The same distinction applies across the directory: GDK’s consumer locator, Doner Shack’s hold notice and any operator pipeline are dated company evidence, not substitutes for a filing’s year-end table.

Item 19 needs its population

The 2026 row records an Item 19 for a system with a short history, corporate stores and early franchised units. The yes/no badge is therefore only a prompt to read the current disclosure: which stores are included, which period is measured, whether figures are averages or individual examples, and what costs are excluded. Company sales claims outside the FDD should not be blended with the disclosed population.

The profile applies that test exactly as it does to The Great Greek, Mad for Chicken or 375° Chicken ‘n Fries. A financial representation from one or a few stores is not a system-wide franchisee forecast regardless of the brand making it.

Product and format

The public menu presents pide sandwiches, dürüm wraps and boxes over fries, salad or rice, with chicken, beef or mixed meat. These choices describe Döner Haus, not a universal definition of German döner. Halal, organic and ingredient claims should be checked against the current operator documentation and any applicable certificate rather than inferred from the category.

A Döner Haus sandwich, wrap, boxes and fries
The operator's menu spans pocket bread, wraps and boxes, showing how one production line serves several carrying formats.

The investment, fee stack and Item 19 status above come from the same 2026 source used for every ranked field. The photographs and maps are permitted company materials; they do not confer authorship, approval or favorable treatment.

Figures from 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document · dataset year 2026.