Charles Loflin Net Worth 2026: Pizza Patron CEO, Career

No reputable publisher, such as Forbes or Celebrity Net Worth, has released a net worth estimate for Charles Loflin. The $12.8 million figure that appeared on this page earlier had no source, and we have removed it. What the trade press does document is the business behind his wealth: Loflin owns the Pizza Patrón chain, which he bought from founder Antonio Swad in December 2016, and he has been described as the largest single Wingstop franchisee, with about 80 Wingstop restaurants by 2018.

What Is Charles Loflin's Net Worth?

There is no published, sourced estimate. Loflin's companies are private, so their revenue, profit and debt are not reported the way a listed company's are, and he has not disclosed his personal finances.

One number gives a sense of scale. When he bought Pizza Patrón, QSR Magazine reported in January 2017 that his Wingstop business ran 67 restaurants and brought in an estimated $100 million a year, with roughly 1,200 employees. That is revenue, not profit and not personal wealth, and it is now almost a decade old. He also co-owns Pizza Patrón, whose purchase price was never disclosed. Any single net worth number for him would be a guess, so we do not give one.

Where the Money Comes From

Wingstop franchises

Loflin bought his first Wingstop restaurant on August 27, 1998, according to a 2018 Franchise Times interview. Through San Antonio Wings Inc., he grew that single store into a network across Austin, San Antonio, South Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Nation's Restaurant News counted 66 of his Wingstop units at the start of 2017, and by August 2018 Franchise Times put the total at 80, making him the largest operator in the system.

He has kept adding stores. Local trade coverage in 2024 reported new Loflin-run Wingstop locations in Round Rock and in Manor, near Austin, the latter a roughly $300,000 build-out of a 1,770-square-foot space.

Pizza Patrón ownership

Pizza Patrón is a value pizza chain founded in Dallas in 1986 by Antonio Swad, who also founded Wingstop. It built its identity around Hispanic customers and drew national attention in 2007 for accepting Mexican pesos. Loflin had been a Pizza Patrón franchisee since 2003 and held store No. 7, the first outside Dallas-Fort Worth. When the deal closed on December 22, 2016, the chain had 92 or 93 units, and Loflin already owned 33 of them. Terms were not disclosed.

He runs the company as CEO and co-owner with Chris Partyka, its president. After the purchase, the headquarters moved from Dallas to San Antonio.

Rise Up Restaurants

Loflin's Wingstop and Pizza Patrón teams now operate under the Rise Up Restaurants name. The group says it ranked No. 61 on Franchise Times' Restaurant 200 list of the largest franchisees in 2024 and moved up to No. 53 in 2025. In May 2025 it announced Pizza Patrón's first chief operations officer, Guy Carney.

Early Life and Education

Loflin grew up in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas, raised by a single mother who worked in real estate. He has one sister. He told Franchise Times he started washing dishes at 15 at a local seafood restaurant, and that he is fluent in Spanish because of where he grew up.

At 18 he was a room service waiter at La Mansión, a hotel in San Antonio. A manager there promoted him to room service manager after a few months, his first leadership job. We could not find a reliable source for his college education, age or date of birth, so the earlier claims on this page about a prestigious university, a teaching career, his age, height and weight have been removed.

Career Timeline

• Late 1990s: Gets to know Antonio Swad; by 2017 Loflin said he had known him for nearly 20 years.
• 1998: Buys his first Wingstop on August 27.
• 2003: Becomes a Pizza Patrón franchisee.
• 2016: Learns at a party at Swad's Dallas home on August 27 that the Pizza Patrón founder wants to sell; closes the purchase on December 22.
• 2017: Moves Pizza Patrón's headquarters to San Antonio; owns 33 Pizza Patrón units and 66 to 67 Wingstops.
• 2018: Pizza Patrón relaunches its brand to reach younger customers; Loflin's Wingstop count reaches 80.
• 2024: Opens new Wingstops in the Austin area; the group ranks No. 61 on the Franchise Times Restaurant 200.
• 2025: Rise Up Restaurants rises to No. 53 on the same list and hires Pizza Patrón's first COO.

How He Runs the Business

In his interviews, Loflin describes himself as a restaurant operator first. He told Franchise Times he visits kitchens with his family and shakes hands with staff, and that he hires for honesty and integrity above everything else. He also admitted that becoming a franchisor after two decades as a franchisee was harder than he expected: in 2018 he said Pizza Patrón had gone 20 months without signing a new franchise partner while he rebuilt the brand.

His main complaint about Pizza Patrón was its image. He argued that a $4.99 pizza led people to assume poor quality, even though the stores make dough fresh daily, and he set out to reposition it as a Latino-inspired pizza place for every market rather than only lower-income neighborhoods. He said he bought the chain to test how far he could take a brand, not for extra income, since the Wingstop business already gave him a comfortable life.

Personal Life

Loflin is based in San Antonio and has mentioned taking his family into his restaurants, but he has not publicly named a spouse or children in the interviews we reviewed. The previous version of this page described a marriage and grandchildren without any source; we removed those details. We also removed a heading that offered contact details and a phone number, which we do not publish for private individuals.

Net Worth Compared

Loflin sits in the same group as other multi-unit restaurant owners on this site. Anthony Wedo built his wealth leading restaurant companies, while the founders behind Tom and Chee took a regional concept into franchising. You can also compare him with trial lawyer Carney Shegerian and entrepreneur Carmine De Falco, both of whose profiles we have also re-checked.

Why There Is No Reliable Figure

Franchise operators can be wealthy on paper while carrying heavy debt on leases, equipment and acquisitions. Without filings, the value of his Wingstop group and of Pizza Patrón can only be guessed at, and the only revenue figure in the press is the 2017 QSR estimate of about $100 million a year for the Wingstop side. We will add a figure if a reputable publisher releases one.