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2015 International Top 25: Chains vs. independent restaurants

2015 International Top 25: Chains vs. independent restaurants

This story is a part of NRN’s International Top 25, an annual look at the 25 largest restaurant chains and companies based outside of the United States and Canada based on their worldwide foodservice sales. Sales and figures were calculated by London-based Euromonitor International.

The International Top 25 is a look at the 25 largest restaurant chains and parent companies with headquarters outside of the United States and Canada based on their reported or estimated worldwide foodservice sales. This breakdown of global foodservice sales includes, but is not limited to, the International Top 25 chains. Chain and independent restaurant sales figures were estimated by London-based research firm Euromonitor International.

Michael Schaefer, Euromonitor's head of beverages & foodservice, partially attributed chains’ high share of sales in the U.S. and Canada to America’s wealth. "High per capita income correlates quite closely with chain penetration," he said. "As countries catch up to the U.S., their levels of chained restaurant spending approach ours."

Schaefer, however, doubts chains will attain the same level of penetration in all other markets as the markets become wealthier.

"That comes back to the chained fast food restaurant being a very American invention — the growth of chained drive-throughs, highways, and suburbs are all closely correlated here, and a lot of the strongest growth in all of these came at the same time," he said.

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