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Captain D's

Food & Restaurant

Captain D's is a fast-casual seafood restaurant franchise that has operated for over 50 years, serving seafood and chicken options in a family-friendly atmosphere with value-oriented pricing that delivers an elevated dining experience at quick-service price points.

Just the Facts

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In Business Since2000
Number of Units518
Total Investment$662K – $1.9Mtracked across 5 filings below

Captain D's FDDs and Analysis Reports

These Captain D's FDDs, as filed, contain 23 sections of federally mandated disclosures such as franchisee obligations, franchisor litigation, and financial performance. FDD's are typically 100+ pages long and are critical to evaluate when researching a franchise. Multi-year analysis reports track how these disclosures change across consecutive FDD filings.

Available Documents

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Multi-Year Analysis Packages

Year-over-year comparison of consecutive filings. Every figure cited to its filing, Item, and PDF page. Source FDDs included.

Captain D's 5-Year FDD Analysis Package (FY2021–FY2025)

Analysis report (25 pages) • 4 year-over-year transitions • 5 source FDDs (2022–2026 filings) included

$599.00
What's insideSee a full sample report (PDF)

The report covers, in order:

  1. Executive summary
  2. Change index
  3. Consolidated unit summary
  4. Geographic summary
  5. Turnover, transfers & closure rates
  6. Franchisee investment and fees
  7. Financial performance representation
  8. Franchisor financial condition
  9. Franchisor entity & leadership
  10. Litigation & bankruptcy
  11. Method, limits and disclaimer
  12. What this report does not include
  • You receive — one analysis report PDF and the 5 source FDD PDFs, 6 downloads in total, available immediately after purchase.
  • Every figure is checkable — each carries a citation to its filing, FDD Item, and PDF page, and the filings it cites are in the package.
  • Restatements are shown, not overwritten — where a later filing revises an earlier year's figures, both numbers appear with a note.
  • Calculated figures are labeled — anything the report calculates rather than quotes is marked as calculated, with its formula published in the report.
  • Gaps are explicit — a closing “What this report does not include” section separates what the franchisor didn't disclose from what this report doesn't collect, so an absence is never ambiguous.
Note:The multi-year FDD Analysis Reports compare a brand's consecutive annual FDD filings with year-over-year changes. Every figure is machine-read from source FDDs with a cited page from the source FDD. Machine reading can misread, so verify any figure you intend to rely on against the cited page. These reports are not legal, financial or investment advice, are not a recommendation to enter into, decline, finance or exit any franchise relationship, and are not a substitute for reading the FDDs or consulting qualified advisors.

Individual FDD Filings

Complete filings as submitted, including exhibits and financial statements.

Captain D's FDD 2026

April 2026

$99.00

Captain D's FDD 2025

May 2025

$99.00

Captain D's FDD 2024

April 2024

$99.00

Captain D's FDD 2023

July 2023

$99.00

Captain D's FDD 2023

May 2023

$99.00
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