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Robin Lee Allen

July 25, 2011

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Robin Lee Allen

We’re well into summer now. Nathan’s Famous has crowned this year’s hot-dog-eating champion — five-time winner Joey Chestnut, who ingested 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes earlier this month. The National League has clinched baseball’s annual All-Star Game, 5-1. Local farmers markets are bursting with fresh fruits and vegetables. And Nation’s Restaurant News has finished another season of Top 200 data collecting, counting, crunching and analyzing.

This issue contains the second installment of our annual Top 200 census, a ranking of the 200 largest foodservice chains and parent companies based on domestic systemwide sales, corporate revenues and 33 other metrics, ranging from unit counts to growth in franchised locations.

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