A look at biggest growers and decliners of the NRN Top 200A look at biggest growers and decliners of the NRN Top 200

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.

Behind the growth: Fiesta Restaurant Group Inc.’s Taco Cabana third-quarter same-store-sales growth of 12.2 percent bettered the latest-reported-quarters performances of all systems tracked by Nation’s Restaurant News. Taco Cabana’s latest number lapped year-earlier double-digit negative comps largely resulting from Hurricane Irma, and all but 0.1 percent of its latest-quarter’s growth came from higher check average.