Buying a Boston Pizza franchise in Canada

Buying an existing Boston Pizza

The Boston Pizza franchising pages read on Oct 22, 2026 describe new restaurants, conversions of other restaurants and hotel or other non-traditional sites. They do not mention existing Boston Pizza restaurants for sale, so the listings below are advertised by sellers or brokers, not by the franchisor — each card says what it is. If a franchise agreement makes a sale conditional on the franchisor’s approval, that approval is a separate step from agreeing a price. See who has to approve a franchise resale and what a transfer fee is.

Three formats, three sets of requirements

Boston Pizza publishes separate figures for its traditional restaurant, a restaurant conversion and a hotel or non-traditional site. The traditional page gives a required liquid capital range; the conversion and hotel pages instead give a share of total investment and a net worth. The table above keeps them as separate rows, because a single blended figure would be wrong for all three.

Training and opening

Boston Pizza says all new franchisees complete a 4-week Hospitality and Leadership Training Program at corporate training centres in Mississauga, Ontario and Laval, Quebec, plus 2 weeks of on-site training before opening and 2 weeks after (as published, read Oct 22, 2026). It is written for a new franchisee opening a restaurant; whether a resale buyer repeats any of it is a question for the franchisor — does buying a resale require retraining? The details are on the training page.

Financing

Boston Pizza says its development team works with franchisees “from negotiating real-estate deals to securing financing”, and names no lender or programme. For the financing routes to ask about, see can a franchise purchase be financed?

Where Boston Pizza is expanding

Boston Pizza’s franchising pages list available communities by province, mark Alberta, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon “apply now” with no community named, and do not list New Brunswick. Deavo’s Boston Pizza listings on Oct 20, 2026 were in Ontario (10), British Columbia (2) and Quebec (2). The full published list is on the locations page.

Disclosure law where Boston Pizza is listed

Ontario and British Columbia have franchise disclosure statutes; Quebec has none. Under Ontario’s and British Columbia’s franchise Acts, a franchisee may rescind without penalty within 60 days after receiving the disclosure document if it or a statement of material change came late or its contents did not meet the Act’s requirements, or within two years after entering into the franchise agreement if it was never provided, so keep the date you receive it. Boston Pizza’s traditional page publishes a royalty and a co-op advertising rate; check each against the disclosure document.