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Browse hundreds of franchise opportunities across wellness, home services, food & beverage, and other high-demand categories — all in one place.

Foot Solutions

ABF Insight: An aging population needs foot wellness solutions. Foot Solutions has operated for 20+ years with 70+ locations, 3D-printed custom orthotics, and 60%+ gross margins in a niche with limited direct competition.

Cash Required: $70,000

Red Light Method

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Twenty-five minutes of FDA-cleared red light, then ten on a Power Plate. Red Light Method runs on memberships and digital classes taught by the founder, so studios open without hiring instructors.

Cash Required: $100,000

Steri-Clean

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Someone has to answer when the worst has happened. Steri-Clean owners take that call, restore the home, and hand a family back their life. Nearly five percent of the country hoards.

Cash Required: $60,000

InLIFE Wellness

ABF Insight: Market Signal —84% of inLIFE’s members had never done Reformer Pilates before walking in. The studio is 1,800 square feet, the royalty is flat instead of a percentage, and a Studio Manager runs the floor.

Cash Required: $100,000

Sylvan Learning

ABF Insight: Market Signal —Parents have known the Sylvan name since they were kids. Owners run centers covering reading, math, writing, test prep, and STEM — with 5,000 school relationships feeding referrals independent tutors can’t match.

Cash Required: $75,000

Ultimate Longevity Center

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Gary Brecka. Anthony Geisler — the operator who built Club Pilates into a billion-dollar franchise system. UBS projects the global longevity economy to reach $8 trillion within four years. Ultimate Longevity Center is positioned at the center of all of it.

Cash Required: $150,000

Little Gym

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Parents want more for their kids than screen time, and The Little Gym has spent nearly fifty years delivering it: movement, confidence, and skill-building for ages one month through twelve.

Cash Required: $100,000

Service Experts

ABF Insight: Market Signal —

The U.S. HVAC services market is projected to reach $39 billion by 2030. Service Experts combines emergency repair revenue with a proprietary equipment leasing program that converts one-time service calls into multi-year recurring revenue relationships.

Cash Required: $150,000

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Story Time Chess

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Chess for five-year-olds fails when rules come first. Story Time Chess teaches it through characters and stories, delivered inside preschools and libraries by instructors hired for personality.

Cash Required: $75,000

Steri-Clean

Cash Required: $60,000

Get A Grip Resurfacing

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Replacing a bathtub takes days and thousands. Get A Grip resurfaces it in one, from a van, with no percentage royalty — owners pay a flat monthly fee instead and scale by adding trucks.

Cash Required: $20,000

Anchor Bar

ABF Insight: Market Signal — The Buffalo wing wasn’t inspired here—it was invented here. Since 1964, Anchor Bar has grown from a Buffalo landmark into an internationally recognized brand with a James Beard Award and retail sauces in 5,000+ supermarkets.

Cash Required: $400,000

Cruisin’ Tikis

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Everybody on the water stops to look at a tiki boat. Cruisin’ Tikis owners run handcrafted floating bars for sunset cruises and parties — no storefront, no kitchen, just a dock and a season.

Cash Required: $75,000

Salad Station

ABF Insight: Market Signal —A restaurant with no hoods, no fryers, and no grills, closed every Sunday. Guests build their own salad by the pound from 100 fresh ingredients while your crew preps and serves.

Cash Required: $300,000

Encore Event Rentals

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Nobody ships a forty-by-hundred tent overnight. Encore owners rent tents, tables, and staging from a warehouse and a fleet — assets bought once that keep earning for years.

Cash Required: $150,000

Sylvan Learning

Cash Required: $75,000

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Premier Pool Service

ABF Insight: Market Signal — A pool does not stop needing service because the economy slowed. Premier Pool Service builds routes of customers who pay every month, in neighborhoods where the pools are already in the ground.

Cash Required: $50,000

Cooper’s Scoopers

ABF Insight: 66% of U.S. households own pets, and over half own dogs. Cooper’s Scoopers delivers eco-friendly pet waste removal with recurring revenue, low overhead, and semi-absentee ownership potential — backed by Loyalty Brands franchise infrastructure.

Cash Required: $50,000

Omega Learning Center

ABF Insight: $102.8B education and tutoring industry growing 37% since 2014 with 55M K-12 students. Omega captures four massive markets under one roof with proprietary systems competitors lack!

Cash Required: $50,000

Dapper Tails Mobile Pet Grooming

ABF Insight: $2.06 billion pet grooming industry with 45.5% of U.S. households owning dogs. DapperTails’ luxury mobile model delivers high-margin recurring revenue with minimal overhead and fast launch!

Cash Required: $50,000

ameriCare

ABF Insight: Hospital-at-home model thriving as inpatient stays become costly. ameriCARE leads emerging home care market with family-owned approach, multiple revenue streams, and accessible support!

Cash Required: $50,000

Creative Kids

ABF Insight: 30 million kids want after-school enrichment but 75% can’t access programs. Creative Kids Movement Network’s on-site model serves working parents while giving kids movement and mindfulness!

Cash Required: $25,000

Complete Mobile Drug Testing

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Employers can’t afford compliance failures — and they need drug testing, background checks, and alcohol screening on demand. CMDT brings those services directly to the workplace through a mobile, territory-based model built for repeat business.

Cash Required: $50,000

Go Painting

ABF Insight: Market Signal — Nearly every painting franchise chases homeowners. GO Painting works only for property managers, HOAs, and commercial owners — bigger jobs, repeat portfolios, and subcontractors doing the painting.

Cash Required: $50,000

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“Griswold Home Care is a big believer in the idea that if you do the right thing, then success will come. I apply this philosophy to my business, and we have been growing significantly every year since we started.”

Christine Friedberg

Griswold Home Care Franchise Owner, Alexandria, VA

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“I was looking for a way to have flexibility with my young family and leave the corporate world and having this, I was able to have a work life balance. You’re not really selling a product, at the end of the day, you’re selling yourself.”

Kim Lang

Budget Blinds Franchise Owner, Huntington Beach, CA

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“HomeVestors has provided us with the tools necessary to turn a hobby and a passion into a full fledged business! We have been provided with a turn-key system that enables us not only to locate properties, but also to buy them through HVA financing.”

Ed Enright

HomeVestors Franchise Owner

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“As an entrepreneur, I’d never had someone give me a blueprint on how to run a business. FYZICAL does an awesome job telling you what the key aspects are to be successful. If you follow the program you end up with a successful business.”