Which franchises' owners sell their units most often?

Transfer rate = transfers (Item 20 Table 3, "transfers") ÷ franchised outlets at the start of the fiscal year (Table 1), for the latest year in each brand's latest FDD (no more than two years old), as extracted by us, descending. A transfer is a change in ownership of an outlet that keeps operating under the brand — a franchisee selling the unit to another franchisee (or to an investor group), not a termination, non-renewal or closure, which are counted in the exit-rate list instead. The FDD does not say why each owner sold, and the number can be read two ways: a busy transfer column can mean a liquid resale market where units find buyers and owners exit on their own terms, or it can mean owners heading for the door — retirement, burnout, or units that don't pay enough to keep. Some transfers are paperwork (an owner moving a unit into a new entity, or a multi-unit operator consolidating), and franchisors define them differently. Read it beside the same filing's exit rate and a resale's own books. The same trust gates as the exit-rate list apply: systems with fewer than 50 franchised units at the start of the year, systems reporting zero units at year end, filings whose Item 20 fails the consistency check, and any year reporting more transfers than starting units are excluded. Figures can contain errors — check the linked FDD and tell us if one is wrong.

Universe: every brand tracked here whose latest filing is a machine extraction from a public FDD (state regulator portals, chiefly Minnesota CARDS), filed 2024–2026. Filings more than two years old and sample/seed data never enter a ranking. Each row's “FDD” link is the official document the figure came from; each brand link leads to the full sourced profile. See the site methodology for extraction and confidence rules.