Growth Metrics

First Watch Restaurant (FWRG) Gross Margin (2020 - 2025)

First Watch Restaurant has reported Gross Margin over the past 6 years, most recently at 134.0% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Gross Margin at 134.0% for Q4 2025, up 318.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 99.2% (up 229.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 91.76%, down 10.0%.
  • Gross Margin for Q4 2025 was 134.0% at First Watch Restaurant, up from 91.81% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Gross Margin for FWRG hit a ceiling of 134.0% in Q4 2025 and a floor of 59.2% in Q4 2023.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 91.33% (2022), compared with a mean of 92.38%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: plummeted -3358bps in 2022 and later surged 7162bps in 2024.
  • First Watch Restaurant's Gross Margin stood at 125.18% in 2021, then fell by -27bps to 91.6% in 2022, then plummeted by -35bps to 59.2% in 2023, then soared by 121bps to 130.82% in 2024, then rose by 2bps to 134.0% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 134.0% (Q4 2025), 91.81% (Q3 2025), and 91.94% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.