Quick Service Restaurant Feasibility Study in the Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about limited-service restaurant lending in the Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Oklahoma City: $41.2 million in limited-service restaurant loans

Over FY2017 to FY2026, Oklahoma City borrowers in limited-service restaurant drew 102 approvals summing to $41.2 million. The median loan is $267,750, with the middle half running $132,600 through $615,975. Next to the class nationally, Oklahoma City's median is 0.86x of the national median, below it.

Rank 43 of 779: mix and counties in Oklahoma City

No split between 7(a) and 504 is given for 102 Oklahoma City loans; a figure that small could identify an applicant. The franchise share, 61.8%, shows how much of the Oklahoma City class is branded. The class holds 1 of 39 among Oklahoma City industries, and Oklahoma City holds 43 of 779 among areas for limited-service restaurant. At 1.33x on the location quotient, limited-service restaurant is denser in Oklahoma City than nationwide, which may mean both depth and crowding; a study probes that. The record sits in Oklahoma County, OK, with 71 loans, and Cleveland County, OK, with 19.

Oklahoma City lenders, years and the $41.2 million record

The busiest shown year was FY2020, 15 loans and $6.5 million; the quietest was FY2026, 6 loans and $1.8 million. Thin Oklahoma City years are withheld; none of them is read as zero. In Oklahoma City, 7(a) loans sit mostly with 44 loans and $18.5 million at BancFirst. The 44 loans at BancFirst are the loans the SBA file shows as held, currently or before, and BancFirst's practices are not described. A floor of 12.9% of Oklahoma City approvals ended in cancellation across Oklahoma City, and the ceiling is withheld, not zero. The $41.2 million Oklahoma City record carries no charge-off rate, since the matching cohort is small, so the blank should not be read as zero.

What an Oklahoma City study must test at $267,750

The Oklahoma City, OK demand test weighs drive-through and counter volume, commuter flow past the site and the daypart mix, trade area by trade area across Oklahoma City. On cost, the Oklahoma City, OK study costs out a labor model for peak hours, franchise-related outlays and the equipment package against Oklahoma City lease terms and Oklahoma City contractors. Stress Oklahoma City earnings with a $132,600 loan and a $615,975 loan, then check where coverage weakens. Oklahoma City appraisers will separate the equipment package, the lease and the pad or building, so the Oklahoma City study should do the same. 102 Oklahoma City loans inform the study in Oklahoma City, but approval of any Oklahoma City, OK project rests on its own merits and its lender.

How to read Oklahoma City, OK's $41.2 million

Oklahoma City gets its 102 loans through each project's county. The July 2023 delineation puts Oklahoma County, OK inside Oklahoma City, OK, and every county is paired by name. Oklahoma City cancellation covers FY2017 to FY2024 approvals around Oklahoma City, OK; charge-offs cover FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements.

SBA limited-service restaurant loans in the Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026102
Gross dollars approved$41.2 million
Median loan$267,750
Middle half of loans, from$132,600
Middle half of loans, to$615,975
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans61.8%
Rank among metro and micro areas for limited-service restaurant loans43 of 779
Rank of limited-service restaurant among the classes in this area1 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.33x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.86x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)12.9%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA limited-service restaurant loans approved in the Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area, by fiscal year

051015FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 11Loans, FY2018: 12Loans, FY2019: 11Loans, FY2020: 15Loans, FY2021: 13Loans, FY2022: 12Loans, FY2025: 11Loans, FY2026: 6
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201711$4.0 million
FY201812$5.7 million
FY201911$3.8 million
FY202015$6.5 million
FY202113$4.4 million
FY202212$6.1 million
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY202511$4.5 million
FY20266$1.8 million

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
BancFirst44$18.5 million

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Oklahoma County, OK71
Cleveland County, OK19

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-36420-C35.

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