The Boiling Crab FDD – Franchise Information, Costs and Fees
Type of Business
The Boiling Crab restaurants are casual dining restaurants modeled after a traditional Louisiana seafood boil featuring seafood and fish entrees prepared Cajun-style with different proprietary finishing sauces and complementary side dishes, beer and wine and fountain drinks. The franchisor offers area development rights and single unit franchises for the right to open and operate one or more The Boiling Crab restaurants.
Corporate Information
Boiling Crab Franchise Co., LLC is a California limited liability company formed on January 16, 2013. Their principal place of business is 5811 McFadden Ave., Huntington Beach, California 92649.
Investment
The total investment necessary to begin operating one The Boiling Crab restaurant is $1,063,500 to $3,793,500. This includes the Initial Franchise Fee of $39,500 and payments to the franchisor or its affiliate before opening for a start-up inventory of their proprietary sauce and spice mix. The total investment necessary to begin operation as an area developer depends on the number of The Boiling Crab restaurants in the development commitment. You must pay the franchisor a Development Fee equal to $39,500 for the first restaurant and $30,000 for each additional restaurant in your Development Quota when you sign the Area Development Agreement. The franchisor credits a portion of the Development Fee in specific increments to the Initial Franchise Fee payable for each The Boiling Crab restaurant in your development commitment.