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...
The restaurant chain continues to leverage new categories from its ‘largest menu evolution ever,’ launched earlier this year.
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.
Potbelly’s 8% same-store sales increase in Q3 was largely driven by traffic as the company continues to execute its five-pillar strategy.
A restaurant in Brandon, Fla., is testing drone delivery and anticipates growing its delivery radius from 1.2 miles to 2 miles “soon.”
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...