Ohcal Foods

What Ohcal Foods does

Ohcal Foods (legal entity: OHCAL Foods, LLC) is a private Subway franchise Development Agent founded in 1979 and headquartered in Woodland Hills, California. The company operates through three regional entities — OHCAL Foods, LLC (Los Angeles County, 460 restaurants), Grewal Foods OC, LLC (Orange County, 190 restaurants), and OHCAL Mid-Atlantic (DC/VA/MD, 829 restaurants) — collectively overseeing 1,479 Subway restaurants across two U.S. regions. Its function is to recruit, qualify, and support Subway franchisees within its granted territories, serving as the local interface between prospective franchisees, existing owner-operators, and Subway's parent franchisor, Doctor's Associates Inc. (DAI).

The company's core offering is human-delivered franchise development and ongoing operational support. Services include monthly recruitment seminars, applicant skills testing and due diligence, two-week corporate training coordination in Milford, CT, local in-store training, site selection and lease negotiation through Subway Real Estate LLC, and ongoing Business Consultant support covering compliance evaluations and sales/profitability coaching. Ohcal does not sell software or proprietary technology; the value proposition is structured access to Subway's brand, real estate infrastructure (SRELLC), aggregated purchasing scale via the Independent Purchasing Council (IPC, 42,000+ locations), and the Subway Franchise Advertising Fund Trust (SFAFT, 52 weeks/year of national TV advertising).

Revenue mechanics are concentrated on franchise fees: $15,000 for an initial 20-year agreement (renewable for another 20 years at no additional cost) and $7,500 for qualified franchisees purchasing additional locations. The 8% royalty on weekly gross sales flows to DAI and the 4.5% advertising fee flows to SFAFT, not to Ohcal directly. Ohcal's principal counterparty is therefore DAI, and its customer base consists of SMB owner-operator franchisees. The company employs 11-50 people across three regional offices and is led by founder and CEO Hardy Grewal.

Name

Ohcal Foods

Legal name

OHCAL Foods, LLC

Website

https://ohcal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ohcal Foods is a Subway franchise Development Agent recruiting, qualifying, and supporting Subway franchisees across three U.S. regions (LA County, Orange County, and DC/VA/MD) covering 1,479 restaurants, earning fees on new franchise agreements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Woodland Hills

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Franchise Fee Revenue: Initial franchise fee of $15,000 for new franchisees, with reduced $7,500 fee for qualified franchisees purchasing additional locations. This is a one-time fee for a twenty-year agreement renewable for an additional twenty years.
2. Royalty Income: Franchisees pay 8% royalty on weekly gross sales to Doctor's Associates Inc. Ohcal Foods, as Development Agents, operate within this Subway franchise system and support franchisees who pay these ongoing royalties.
3. Advertising Fund Fees: Franchisees pay 4.5% advertising fee to the Subway Franchise Advertising Fund Trust (SFAFT) on weekly gross sales. Development Agents oversee and support franchisee participation in these advertising programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ohcal Foods operates as an authorized Subway Development Agent, recruiting and qualifying prospective Subway franchisees through applications, skills testing, and due diligence. It provides ongoing operational support to existing franchisees via trained Business Consultants, including compliance evaluations, staff training, marketing planning, and business planning assistance across three regional territories covering 1,479 Subway restaurants.

Product overview

Ohcal Foods is a SUBWAY Development Agent providing franchise development and support services. The company operates three regional offices—OHCAL Foods, LLC (Los Angeles County with 460 restaurants), Grewal Foods OC, LLC (Orange County with 190 restaurants), and OHCAL Mid-Atlantic (DC/VA/MD with 829 restaurants)—totaling over 1,479 SUBWAY restaurants. The core service offering centers on franchise development, which includes identifying new restaurant locations, facilitating lease negotiations through Subway Real Estate LLC, supporting franchise applicants through the qualification process, and providing ongoing Business Consultant support for operational compliance and profitability. Add-on services include franchisee training programs (two weeks at corporate headquarters in Milford, CT plus local in-store training), University of SUBWAY online training access, and monthly restaurant evaluations. The company does not sell a software product; rather, it provides human-delivered franchise development and consulting services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Subway Franchise Development & Support Services

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Doctor's Associates Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDoctor's Associates Inc. is Subway's parent company that franchises the SUBWAY brand worldwide. Ohcal Foods operates as authorized Development Agents, receiving franchise fee payments and providing franchisee support on behalf of DAI. Franchisees pay 8% weekly royalty to DAI.
• Subway Real Estate, LLC (SRELLC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSRELLC negotiates and signs all master leases for Subway locations. The Development Team works with SRELLC to identify and secure new locations and facilitate lease negotiations. Franchisees sign sub-leases with SRELLC under the same terms as the master lease.
• Independent Purchasing Council (IPC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIPC is a corporation owned and run by SUBWAY franchisees that approves and monitors SUBWAY gold standard vendors and utilizes the buying power of more than 42,000 locations. All products used by SUBWAY franchisees must meet IPC criteria.
• Subway Franchise Advertising Fund Trust (SFAFT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFAFT is a corporation owned and run by SUBWAY franchisees that oversees national, regional, and local advertising dollars with input and voting power from every franchisee. Currently advertises on television 52 weeks per year and sponsors community and national sporting events.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Subway: Subway is the franchisor and system owner behind Ohcal's territory. It is directly comparable as the counterparty defining the brand standards, royalty structure, advertising program, training, and real-estate framework within which Ohcal operates.
• Flynn Group: Flynn Group is a large multi-brand restaurant franchise operator with field operations and unit-performance support capabilities. It is comparable to Ohcal's operational support role, but operates at far greater scale and across several franchise systems.
• Sun Holdings: Sun Holdings is a large multi-brand restaurant franchise operator that supports franchise operations and unit economics at scale. It shares Ohcal's focus on restaurant performance and franchisee execution, though its portfolio and resources are substantially broader.

Others

• Fransmart: Fransmart provides franchise development and expansion support, including helping brands build or scale franchise systems. It is comparable at the capability level, although it generally works with emerging franchisors rather than holding exclusive Subway development territories.
• FranChoice: FranChoice is a franchise consulting and advisory organization that helps prospective franchisees evaluate opportunities. It is comparable to Ohcal's prospect education and qualification funnel, but it does not operate a branded regional development territory.
• The Entrepreneur's Source: The Entrepreneur's Source provides franchise education, discovery, and consulting to prospective business owners. Its advisory model overlaps with Ohcal's seminars, candidate screening, and franchisee guidance, but serves a broader set of franchise systems.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/socalsubway
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ohcal-foods-llc-subway-development

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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