Aqua-tots
Sports and Recreation Instruction
Figures are from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document filed in MN.
- Total investment
- $1,619,820 – $2,939,590
- Initial franchise fee
- $50,000
- Franchised outlets
- 138
No franchisee failed to repay
None of the 21 finished loans to Aqua-tots franchisees were charged off. 4 of the 15 comparable brands in Sports and Recreation Instruction share a clean record. See every one of them →
Based on 21 finished loans.
Every one of the 21 franchisees who borrowed to buy Aqua-tots paid the money back. Across comparable Sports and Recreation Instruction brands, 11.1% of borrowers did not. See it against every comparable brand →
There is more in Aqua-tots’s filing
What it costs to open is free, above. Access opens what the franchisor disclosed about earning it back — here and on every other brand we have read:
- What Item 19 states its outlets earn, and on how many of them
- Every ongoing fee, not just the royalty — priced in dollars a year
- How many franchisees left, were terminated, or sold up
- Territory, renewal, non-compete and dispute terms
- What in the record is worth asking about, and why
- A five-year projection you can put your own rent, wages and borrowing into
One price opens all of it, on every brand we have read. Once opened it stays open.
The loan record stays free — how many of this brand’s franchisees borrowed from a bank to buy in, and how many never paid it back. That is a public government record and we do not charge for it. What you pay for is only what we read out of the franchisor’s own disclosure document.