This is part of the Nation’s Restaurant News annual Top 200 report, a proprietary ranking of the foodservice industry’s largest restaurant chains and parent companies.
An easy, and expensive, way to be one of the fastest-growing foodservice companies in the country is to buy your way there. That’s what the six fastest growers in the Top 200 did, investing large sums to acquire restaurants or entire companies, boosting their portfolios. But for those that grew organically, most did so with strong corporate cultures and a clear vision for where they wanted to go and how to get there.
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2018 Top 200: Company U.S. Foodservice Revenue
2018 Top 200: Growth in Company U.S. Foodservice Revenue
