Two Hands Corn Dogs Franchise Cost: Fees & Investment

Two Hands Corn Dogs at a Glance

Two Hands Corn Dogs sells hand-dipped, made-to-order Korean-style corn dogs — mozzarella fillings, sweet-potato coatings, drinks and sides. One detail matters before anything else for an international reader: this is a US-founded franchisor. Two Hands America, Inc. was founded in 2019, is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, and reports 71 stores ^[3] across roughly 18 US states. It is not a Korean-headquartered company, so there is no Korean (KFTC) disclosure filing to consult — the governing document is the US Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD). Franchising runs through direct single- and multi-unit agreements, with stand-alone, food-court, and kiosk formats on offer.

What It Costs

Cost item	Amount	Market / as of	Source
Initial franchise fee	$35,000 [2]	US, 2025	Franchisor FAQ
Total initial investment (low end)	$230,500 [1]	US, 2024 FDD	Vetted Biz
Total initial investment (high end)	$453,000 [1]	US, 2024 FDD	Vetted Biz
Royalty	5% of gross sales [2]	US, 2025	Franchisor FAQ
Brand marketing fee	1% [2]	US, 2025	Franchisor FAQ
Local advertising requirement	1% [2]	US, 2025	Franchisor FAQ
Minimum liquid capital	$250,000 [2]	US, 2025	Franchisor FAQ

Small-Format Economics: Why the Range Is Wide

The spread between $230,500 ^[1] and $453,000 ^[1] is nearly two-to-one, and the format menu explains most of it. Two Hands offers three physical footprints:

• Kiosk — the smallest build, typically inside a mall or high-traffic corridor where the landlord supplies much of the infrastructure.
• Food-court unit — a compact counter operation with shared seating, which trims dining-room build-out entirely.
• Stand-alone store — the full-cost end: dedicated leasehold improvements, signage, seating, and restrooms.

A one-product-line menu (corn dogs, dipped and fried to order) also keeps the back-of-house simple compared with a full kitchen concept, which is what allows the low end of the range to sit where it does. Two cost dynamics deserve attention when comparing formats:

• The $35,000 ^[2] franchise fee is fixed regardless of format, so it represents a proportionally larger slice of a kiosk budget than of a stand-alone build. Smaller formats concentrate the franchisor-fee burden.
• Smaller formats usually mean mall or food-hall leases, where percentage rent and common-area charges can offset some of the build-out savings. The FDD's item-by-item breakdown is where you test this against your target site.

Ongoing Fees

Continuing costs are indexed to sales rather than fixed:

• Royalty: 5% of gross sales ^[2]
• Brand marketing fee: 1% ^[2]
• Local advertising: an additional 1% ^[2] spent in your own market

For a small-format unit, sales-indexed fees scale down with the store — a structural advantage of this model over fixed monthly fees, which weigh hardest on the smallest units.

Financial Requirements

The franchisor asks for a minimum of $250,000 ^[2] in liquid capital, and its FAQ indicates a net worth of approximately $400K ^[2]. Note the ordering here: the liquid-capital floor of $250,000 ^[2] is higher than the bottom of the investment range at $230,500 ^[1]. In practice that means even a candidate targeting the cheapest kiosk build must qualify at a capital level above the projected build cost — a cushion requirement, not a build-cost estimate.

Notes for International Candidates

Two Hands currently operates and recruits in the United States only, with no verified international deals. If you are evaluating it from outside the US, you are looking at entering the US market directly rather than acquiring master-franchise rights for your home country. The investment range of $230,500 ^[1] to $453,000 ^[1] comes from the 2024 US FDD as summarized by Vetted Biz; the fee schedule — $35,000 ^[2] initial fee, 5% ^[2] royalty, 1% ^[2] marketing plus 1% ^[2] local advertising — comes from the franchisor's own 2025 franchising FAQ. Figures from different years and sources should be reconciled against a single current document before you commit.

How to Verify

Every figure above is only as current as its source year. Before signing anything, request the franchisor's current Franchise Disclosure Document and confirm each number directly: Item 5 for the initial franchise fee, Item 6 for royalties and marketing fees, and Item 7 for the full initial-investment table broken out by store format. Costs, fee structures, and qualification thresholds change between FDD issuances, so treat the current disclosure document — not third-party summaries or this guide — as the authoritative source.