Nation’s Restaurant News teams up with Datassential and its Firefly data platform to present a look at the restaurant landscape that tracks the performance of the largest 500 chains.
We’ve arrived at our final Top 500 analysis of 2023, a look at the limited-service restaurant chains that don’t fit neatly into established segments (salad/healthful, pizza, Mexican, dessert/snack, chicken, burger, bakery/café, coffee, or sandwich...
It was a good year for limited-service sandwich restaurants, with all 10 of the largest growing systemwide sales and estimated sales per unit in 2022...
With the acquisition of Carlyle’s minority stake, McDonald’s increases its ownership stake in China from 20% to 48% as it aims to get to 10,000 units in the market by 2028.
Limited-service salad/healthful was the fastest-growing restaurant segment in America last year, with its 23 chains in the Top 500 seeing systemwide sales growth of 17.4% in 2022...
