# Trending Franchises — trendingfranchises.com

> An independent, source-based directory of 3,324 brands in the U.S. Small Business Administration Franchise Directory. It tracks new and recertified records; it does not rank investments or sell placement in an editorial score.

## Source and meaning

- Primary source: SBA Franchise Directory (https://legacy.sba.gov/document/support-sba-franchise-directory)
- Source effective date: 2026-08-20
- FTC-defined franchises in the source: 2,301
- A brand's inclusion is not an SBA endorsement, approval, or assurance of success.
- "Trending" currently means recently added to or recertified in the SBA directory. It is a recency signal, not a growth, revenue, quality, or investment-performance claim.
- Profiles do not contain franchise costs, royalties, earnings, unit counts, closures, satisfaction, litigation, or territory availability unless a later named source explicitly supplies them.

## URL patterns

- https://trendingfranchises.com/ — search, current source statistics, recent records and A–Z browse
- https://trendingfranchises.com/franchises — complete alphabetical directory
- https://trendingfranchises.com/franchises/{letter} — one initial letter
- https://trendingfranchises.com/new-franchises — records added or recertified in the last 12 months
- https://trendingfranchises.com/franchise/{slug} — source record for one brand
- https://trendingfranchises.com/franchise-methodology — ingestion, recency and indexing rules

## Machine-readable

- Search endpoint: https://trendingfranchises.com/api/franchises?q={brand}
- Sitemap: https://trendingfranchises.com/sitemap.xml