List of fast-food restaurants - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a list of fast food restaurant
Fast food restaurant
A fast food restaurant, also known as a Quick Service Restaurant or QSR within the industry itself, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service...

s, as distinct from fast casual restaurant

Fast casual restaurant

A fast casual restaurant is a type of restaurant that does not offer full table service, but promises a higher quality of food and atmosphere than a fast food restaurant. In the US, it is a relatively new and growing concept positioned between fast food and casual dining...

s, (see List of casual dining restaurant chains), coffeehouse

Coffeehouse

A coffeehouse or coffee shop is an establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other hot beverages. It shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant, but it is different from a cafeteria. As the name suggests, coffeehouses focus on...

s (see List of coffeehouse chains), ice cream parlor

Ice cream parlor

Ice cream parlors are places that sell ice cream and frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is normally sold in two varieties in these stores: soft-serve ice cream , and hard-packed, which has an assortment of flavors, as well as frozen yogurt, which is a low-fat alternative and tastes slightly...

s (see List of ice cream parlor chains), and pizzerias (see List of pizza chains).

International chains

A&W Restaurants
A&W Restaurants
A&W Restaurants, Inc., is a chain of fast-food restaurants, distinguished by its draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W was arguably the first successful food franchise company, starting franchises in 1921 in California. Today it has franchise locations throughout the world, serving a typical...
Arby's
Arby's
Arby's is a fast food restaurant chain in the United States and Canada. Roark Capital Group owns 81.5% of the company, with Wendy's Company owning the other 18.5%. It is primarily known for selling roast beef sandwiches and curly fries. The Arby's menu also includes chicken sandwiches, appetizers,...
Arctic Circle Restaurants
Arctic Circle Restaurants
Arctic Circle Restaurants is a chain of burger and shake restaurants based in Midvale, Utah, United States. There were 73 restaurants as of February 2011, with about a third owned by the main company and two-thirds by franchisees, in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and...
Au Bon Pain
Blimpie
Blimpie
Blimpie is a submarine sandwich chain in the United States. The company is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.The first Blimpie store was opened in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1964. . By mid-2002, there were about 2,000 Blimpie outlets in operation, located in 47 U.S...
Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits
Burger King
Burger King
Burger King, often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain...

, Hungry Jack's
Hungry Jack's
Hungry Jack's Pty Ltd, often colloquially abbreviated to HJ's, Hungry's or Hungie's, is the exclusive Australian master fast food franchisee of Burger King Corporation. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Competitive Foods Australia, a privately held company owned by Jack Cowin...

(Australia)
Camille's Sidewalk Cafe
Camille's Sidewalk Cafe
Camille's Sidewalk Cafe is a restaurant franchise headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, specializing in healthful, "fast casual" cuisine. Camille's has 33 locations as of 2011 in the United States.-Overview:...
Captain D's
Captain D's
Captain D’s is a U.S.-based chain of fast-food restaurants, specializing in seafood and fish and chips. The restaurant also features a low-carbohydrate menu. The restaurant chain's headquarters is located in Nashville, Tennessee....
Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food restaurant chain located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States. The first store has opened in Canada in Kelowna, BC. They are in the process of expanding to Mexico, Malaysia, Denmark, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam,...
Charley's Grilled Subs
Charley's Grilled Subs
Charley's Grilled Subs is a sandwich chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.The chain has 400 locations in 46 states and Puerto Rico in the United States and in 15 other countries, including Canada, Dubai, Germany, Guam, Italy, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Panama, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom,...
Checkers
Checkers (fast food)
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. is the largest chain of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States. In June 2006, the Company went private through a merger with Taxi Holdings Corp., an affiliate of Wellspring Capital Management, a private equity firm.The company operates more than 815...
Chester's International
Chester's International
Chester’s International, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the fifth-largest fried chicken quick-service restaurant in the U.S. with more than 1,800 locations and operations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, and Canada.W.O...
Chicken Cottage
Chicken Cottage
Chicken Cottage International is a UK based fast food chain. The company is the Master Franchisor and the owner of "Chicken Cottage" brand. Its taste is modelled on a blend of South Asian and Southern US flavours using halal ingredients...
Chicken Delight
Chicken Delight
Chicken Delight today is a chain of restaurants offering eat in, take out, and delivery service with a menu featuring chicken, pizza and ribs. Based in Winnipeg, the chain mostly has outlets in that city and throughout Manitoba, although a few are located in the New York metro area, and at other...
Chicken Licken
Chicken Licken (restaurant)
Chicken Licken is a South Africa-based fast-food fried chicken chain. Its first store was built in 1982 at Ridgeway; in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the Sunday Times Markinor 2007 Brands Survey, Chicken Licken is the second biggest fast food brand in South Africa. Chicken Licken is the...
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A |"fillet"]]) is a quick service restaurant chain headquartered in College Park, Georgia, United States, specializing in chicken entrées and is known for promoting the company founder's claims of Christian values. Long associated with the southern United States, where it has been a...
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. is a chain of restaurants in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada specializing in burritos and tacos, founded by Steve Ells in 1993 and based in Denver, Colorado...
Chowking
Chowking
Chowking is a Philippine-based chain that pioneered the Asian quick-service restaurant concept in the Philippines. The concept combines a Western fast-food service style with Chinese food. Chowking predominantly sells noodle soups, dim sum, and rice toppings...
Church's Chicken
Church's Chicken
Church's Chicken is a US-based chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken, also trading outside North America as Texas Chicken. The chain was founded as Church's Fried Chicken To Go by George W. Church, Sr., on April 17, 1952, in San Antonio, across the street from The Alamo...
Culver's
Culver's
Culver’s is a privately owned and operated fast casual restaurant chain that operates primarily in the Midwestern United States. The first Culver’s opened in 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin...
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, who also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn. The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or...
Del Taco
Del Taco
Del Taco is a North American fast food restaurant chain which specializes in American-style Mexican cuisine as well as American foods such as burgers, fries, and shakes...
Dixy Chicken
Dixy Chicken
Dixy Chicken is a fast food chain that specialises in halal chicken. It is owned by a company in England named SABT2 Limited. The company was founded in 1986, and has 110 outlets within the UK, but have none in Scotland. six in Pakistan, four in Syria, and one each in France, Norway, and Egypt...
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts is an international doughnut and coffee retailer founded in 1950 by William Rosenberg in Quincy, Massachusetts; it is now headquartered in Canton...
El Pollo Loco
El Pollo Loco
El Pollo Loco is a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Mexican grilled chicken, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. "El Pollo Loco" is Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken".Their main dish is pollo asado, a grilled marinated chicken...
Hardee's
Hardee's
Hardee's is a restaurant chain, located mostly in the Southeast and Midwestern regions of the United States. It has evolved through several corporate ownerships since its establishment in 1960. It is currently owned and operated by CKE Restaurants. Along with its sibling restaurant chain, Carl's...
Hesburger
Hesburger
Hesburger is a fast-food chain based in Turku, Finland. Today, it is the largest Finnish hamburger restaurant chain, with a larger presence in the Finnish market than U.S.-based McDonald's...
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger is a regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations in the western United States. Founded in 1948 by Harry Snyder and his wife Esther, establishing the first In-N-Out burger in Baldwin Park and headquartered in Irvine, California, In-N-Out Burger has since expanded outside...
Jamba Juice
Jamba Juice
Jamba Juice is a chain of smoothie restaurants, headquartered in Emeryville, California, with over 700 locations operating in 30 states, the Bahamas, Canada, Korea, and the Philippines. Over 500 locations are company-owned, with the remainder being franchised...
Jollibee
Jollibee
Jollibee Foods Corporation is the parent company of Jollibee, a fast-food restaurant chain based in the Philippines. Among JFC's popular brands are Jollibee, Chowking, Greenwich, Red Ribbon, Caffe Ti-amo, Mang Inasal and Burger King...
Kenny Rogers Roasters
Kenny Rogers Roasters
Kenny Rogers Roasters is a chicken restaurant that was founded by country musician Kenny Rogers and former Kentucky governor John Y. Brown, Jr., who had also owned Kentucky Fried Chicken from 1964 to 1971. The menu was originally centered on wood-fired rotisserie chicken. After closing almost all...
KFC
KFC
KFC, founded and also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, termed a concept of Yum! Brands since 1997 when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global...
Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme is the name of an international chain of doughnut stores that was founded by Vernon Rudolph in 1937 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The parent company of Krispy Kreme is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc...
Maoz Vegetarian
McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
MOS Burger
MOS Burger
, doing business as , is a fast-food restaurant chain that originated in Japan. It is now the second-largest fast-food franchise in Japan after McDonald's, and owns numerous overseas outlets over East Asia, including Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, and until 2005, Hawaii...
Moe's Southwest Grill
Moe's Southwest Grill
Moe's Southwest Grill is an American chain of fast casual style Tex-Mex restaurants headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.Moe's was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in December 2000, by Raving Brands. In August 2007, the brand was purchased by FOCUS Brands...
New York Fries
New York Fries
New York Fries is a Canadian fast food restaurant that mainly serves french fries and hot dogs. They also serve poutine, The Works , Veggie Works , and Pepsi-Cola brand beverages.There are locations in nine of the ten provinces in Canada, as well as...
Noble Roman's
Panda Express
Panda Express
Panda Express is a fast casual restaurant chain serving American Chinese cuisine. It operates mainly inside the United States, in casinos, shopping malls, supermarkets, airports, train stations, strip plazas, theme parks, stadiums, college campuses and The Pentagon...
Pollo Tropical
Pollo Tropical
Pollo Tropical is a restaurant chain specializing in the Floribbean cuisine of South Florida . The chain has its headquarters in Kendall, unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida.The first Pollo Tropical opened in November 1988, in Miami...
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits is a chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants, owned since 1993 by the Sandy Springs, Georgia-based AFC Enterprises, which was originally America's Favorite Chicken Company...
Quick
Quick (restaurant chain)
Quick is a Belgian chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. It is one of Europe's largest restaurants chains. In recent years, its worldwide expansion has accelerated.Quick is similar in theme to McDonald's...
Quickly
Quickly
Quickly is one of the largest tapioca milk tea franchises in the world, with over 2000 locations in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Quickly is the brand name of Kuai Ke Li Enterprise Co. Ltd., which was founded by Nancy Yang in Taiwan and started franchising.Quickly Corporation was...
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is a fast-food restaurant chain founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Todd Graves and Craig Silvey on August 26, 1996. The restaurant offers chicken fingers as its only main course. Raising Cane's total revenue in 2007 was $97.3 million...
Rally's
Red Rooster
Red Rooster
Red Rooster is an Australian fast food restaurant chain. Red Rooster specialises in selling roasted chicken and other related products.- History :...
Roy Rogers Restaurants
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In is an American drive-in fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, complete with carhops who sometimes wear rollerskates. As of August 31, 2010, there were 3,500 restaurants in 43 U.S. states. Sonic serves approximately 3 million customers daily.-1950s:Following...
Subway
Subway (restaurant)
Subway is an American restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc. . Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world with 35,519 restaurants in 98 countries and territories as of October 25th, 2011...
Taco Bell
Taco Bell
Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., which serves American-adapted Mexican food. Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "Value Menu" items...
Taco Bueno
Taco Bueno
Taco Bueno is a U.S.-based fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex-style Mexican cuisine. Currently headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas, the first location was in Abilene, Texas in 1967. The company has locations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas,...
Taco Cabana
Taco Cabana
Taco Cabana is a U.S.-based fast food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex cuisine and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrols Restaurant Group. Taco Cabana is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas...
Taco del Mar
Taco del Mar
Taco del Mar is a Seattle, Washington-based Fresh Mex fast food restaurant chain that specializes in San Francisco burritos. Since opening in Seattle on June 8, 1992 by brothers James and John Schmidt, it has expanded into over 260 locations in the U.S. and Canada...
Taco Tico
Taco Tico
Taco Tico is a chain of Tex-Mex cuisine fast-food restaurants. This establishment serves tacos, tostadas, nachos, enchiladas, burritos, refried beans, quesadillas, taco burgers, and sanchos available for dine-in, take-out, or drive-thru. Dan Foley opened the first Taco Tico in 1962, in his native...
Taco Time
Taco Time
Taco Time is a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in a limited menu of Mexican foods. The chain offers dine-in, take away, and drive through at about 300 locations....
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc. is a Canadian fast casual restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts. It is also Canada's largest fast food service with over 3000 stores nationwide. It was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, after an initial venture in...
Togo's
Togo's
Togo's Eateries, Inc., is a chain of fast casual sandwich restaurants owned by Mainsail Partners. Its headquarters are in San Jose, California....
Vapiano
Vapiano
Vapiano is a German fast casual restaurant chain offering Italian food. The concept is a pizza and pasta bar, where food is made to order. Vapiano also serves made-to-order salads and dessert and has a bar with alcoholic beverages available. There are 97 restaurants all over the world, 45 of which...
Wendy's
Wendy's
Wendy's is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The company decided to move its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. It has been owned by Triarc since 2008...
Wendy's Supa Sundaes
Whataburger
Whataburger
Whataburger is a privately held, regional restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. The company, founded by Harmon Dobson, opened its first restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950...
White Castle
White Castle (restaurant)
White Castle is an American regional fast food hamburger restaurant chain in the Midwestern United States and in the New York metropolitan area, and the first of its kind in the US. It is known for its small, square hamburgers. Sometimes referred to as "sliders", the burgers were priced at five...
White Spot
White Spot
White Spot is a Canadian restaurant chain based in Vancouver, British Columbia, best known for its hamburgers, Pirate Pak children's meal, and other home-style food, as well as its "carhop" drive-in service and "Triple O" burger sauce...
Wimpy
Zaxby's
Zaxby's
Zaxby's is a franchised chain of fast casual restaurants that operates primarily in the Southeastern United States with 500 locations. Zaxby's 500th location opened in Tifton, Georgia the summer of 2010. The first Zaxby's was opened in Statesboro, Georgia, near the Georgia Southern University...

South Africa

Chicken Licken
Chicken Licken (restaurant)
Chicken Licken is a South Africa-based fast-food fried chicken chain. Its first store was built in 1982 at Ridgeway; in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the Sunday Times Markinor 2007 Brands Survey, Chicken Licken is the second biggest fast food brand in South Africa. Chicken Licken is the...
Something Fishy
Something Fishy
Something Fishy is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on January 18, 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on January 28, 1957 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title The Butler Did It....
Spur Steak Ranches
Steers
Steers
Steers is a fast-food, quick service restaurant franchise originating from South Africa. Its core products include the sale of a range of flame-grilled beef and chicken hamburgers, served with soft drinks and french fries....

India

Goli Vada Pav
Goli Vada Pav
Goli Vada Pav is an Indian ethnic snack chain offering the staple Mumbai street food vadapav in standardized, hygienic manner at economic pricing there by becoming an alternative to traditional fast food....
Haldiram's
Haldiram's
Haldiram's is one of India's largest sweets and snacks manufacturers, based in Nagpur And now in many City, India.-History:It was founded in 1937 by Shivkisan Agrawal, as retail sweets and namkeens shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.-Products:...
Monginis
Monginis
Monginis is a major Indian pastry, cake and general bakery chain based in Mumbai, with shops in 11 Indian cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Cairo, the capital of Egypt.-Products:...
Nirula's
Nirula's
Nirula's is India's oldest fast food restaurant chain, based in North India and most popular in NCR Delhi. It started Delhi's first fast food restaurant in Connaught Place in 1977, today it has over 75 outlets in NCR Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states, which...
Saravana Bhavan
Saravana Bhavan
Hotel Saravana Bhavan is a vegetarian restaurant chain founded in 1981 offering south Indian cuisine. ]. They have more than 20 outlets in Chennai and several outside India including USA, Canada, London, Paris, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle East.saravana bhavan is leading veg...
Yazdani Bakery
Yazdani Bakery
Yazdani Bakery is a famous bakery in South Mumbai. The bakery was opened in 1953 by Meherwan Zend, a Parsee baker. All the products in the bakery are hand-made, and baked in in diesel ovens. The bakery draws a lot of visitors, particularly international visitors especially Germans...

Japan

First Kitchen
First Kitchen
is a Japanese fast food restaurant chain operated by First Kitchen Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Holdings.Its first shop opened in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in 1977. Currently, stores operate in 14 prefectures, in the Kantō, Chūbu, and Kinki regions. Of the 126 stores, 100 exist in Kantō...
Freshness Burger
Freshness Burger
Freshness Burger, often referred to simply as Freshness, is a fast food restaurant from Japan. Founded in 1992, it sells hamburgers, sandwiches, salads, and coffee drinks. It advertises itself as "Fresh and Organic," operating under the slogan "Freshness Food, Freshness Serving, Freshness People,...
Lotteria
Lotteria
Lotteria is a chain of fast-food restaurants similar to McDonald's headquartered in Japan, and now with branches in South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. It takes its name from its parent company, Lotte. Lotteria opened its first shop in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan in September 1972.-History:The...
MOS Burger
MOS Burger
, doing business as , is a fast-food restaurant chain that originated in Japan. It is now the second-largest fast-food franchise in Japan after McDonald's, and owns numerous overseas outlets over East Asia, including Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, and until 2005, Hawaii...
Pepper Lunch
Pepper Lunch
is a "fast-steak" restaurant franchise popular in the Tokyo area. There are over 200 restaurants in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Macau, and the Philippines, as well as one branch in the United States.Pepper Lunch is a subsidiary...
Sukiya
Sukiya (restaurant chain)
' is a Japanese restaurant chain serving gyūdon, other donburi, and curry. , Sukiya has over 1000 restaurants throughout all 47 Japanese prefectures as well as six in Shanghai, China; two in Suzhou, China; and three in São Paulo, Brazil...

, "Beef bowl"
Yoshinoya
Yoshinoya
Yoshinoya is the largest chain of beef bowl restaurants and one of the Japanese chains of fast food, which was established in Japan in 1899. Its motto is "Tasty, low-priced, and quick"...

, "Beef bowl"

Malaysia

The Chicken Rice Shop
The Chicken Rice Shop
The Chicken Rice Shop is a chicken rice fast-food restaurant and Halal family restaurant chain in Malaysia. The chain is operated by TCRS Restaurants Sdn Bhd, a company incorporated in Malaysia, which was established in June 2000....
KLG
Marrybrown
Marrybrown
Marrybrown Restaurant is a Malaysia based fast food chain.Established in 1981, they now have over 250 outlets serving Fried Chicken, Burgers, Seafood, Rice Base Products, Noodles, Porridge, Finger Foods, Desserts and Beverages. In 1980s Marrybrown became the first local fast food chain to franchise...
Secret Recipe
Secret Recipe
Secret Recipe is a lifestyle café chain and has become common in Malaysia following its debut in 1997. Secret Recipe has established its brand name in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei and Pakistan as well. It serves cakes and fusion food in a service environment.The...

Philippines

Bacolod Chicken Inasal
Bacolod Chicken Inasal
Bacolod Chicken Inasal is a Philippine restaurant business. It is among the chains in the country best known for serving inasal, a kind of roast chicken served on skewers that originated in the Visayas. It is also a sponsor for a number of television sitcoms on ABS-CBN.-History:The chain was...
Burger Machine
Burger Machine
Burger Machine Holdings Corporation, more commonly known as Burger Machine, is one of the notable fastfood companies in the Philippines. It is a sub-company of the Gilmore Food Corporation. Unlike Jollibee and other burger chains, Burger Machine has always been retailing in outdoor stands instead...
Chowking
Chowking
Chowking is a Philippine-based chain that pioneered the Asian quick-service restaurant concept in the Philippines. The concept combines a Western fast-food service style with Chinese food. Chowking predominantly sells noodle soups, dim sum, and rice toppings...
Gerry's Grill
Gerry's Grill
Gerry’s Grill is a group of restaurants based in the Philippines. It is also among the largest restaurant chains in the country, having 47 stores .-History:...
Goldilocks Bakeshop
Goldilocks Bakeshop
Goldilocks Bakeshop is a bakeshop industry in the Philippines which produces and distribute Philippine cakes and pastry. The chain was named after Goldilocks, a character from the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears....
Jollibee
Jollibee
Jollibee Foods Corporation is the parent company of Jollibee, a fast-food restaurant chain based in the Philippines. Among JFC's popular brands are Jollibee, Chowking, Greenwich, Red Ribbon, Caffe Ti-amo, Mang Inasal and Burger King...
Mang Inasal
Mang Inasal
Mang Inasal is a common fast food chain in the Philippines.-History:Edgar Sia II engaged in business at twenty years of age. He opened the first branch at the Robinson's Mall Carpark-Iloilo....
Max's of Manila
Max's of Manila
Max's of Manila, popularly known as Max's Restaurant, is a Philippine-based restaurant serving fried chicken and Filipino dishes.-History:...
Red Ribbon
Red Ribbon (bakeshop)
Red Ribbon Bakeshop is a popular fast-food chain and bakery in the Philippines and the United States, offering a wide range of cakes and pastries. The chain began in the Philippines in 1979 in Quezon City along Timog Avenue and started franchising in 1999. In 1984, they opened their first US...
Tokyo Tokyo
Tokyo Tokyo
Tokyo Tokyo is a Japanese fast food restaurant chain in the Philippines. Tokyo Tokyo is known for serving Japanese dishes with free rice refill, a promotion called eat-all-you-kanin which has been on-going since it started in 1985. Tokyo Tokyo currently operates 56 stores in the Philippines, with...
Wendy's
Wendy's
Wendy's is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The company decided to move its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. It has been owned by Triarc since 2008...

Singapore

Crystal Jade
Old Chang Kee
Old Chang Kee
Old Chang Kee is an established snack chain in Singapore specialising in curry puffs and other local snacks. Established in 1956, Old Chang Kee started off as a small stall outside Rex Cinema at McKenzie Road which still exists. Its current chairman, Han Keen Juan bought over the establishment...
Sakae Sushi
Sakae Sushi
Sakae Sushi is a restaurant chain based in Singapore serving Japanese cuisine, and is the flagship brand of Apex-Pal International Ltd...

Ireland

Abrakebabra
Abrakebabra
Abrakebabra is an Irish fast food restaurant franchise chain owned by Abrakebabra Investments, established in 1982.When the first Abrakebabra restaurant was opened in Rathmines in Dublin, it attracted a young market because of its late opening hours and novel menu including kebabs and taco fries.In...
Eddie Rocket's
O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars
O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars
O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars, also known as O'Briens, is an international franchise sandwich bar chain founded in Ireland in 1988 by Brody Sweeney. As of October 2009, O'Briens was operated by Irish fast food chain Abrakebabra.-Foundations:...
Supermac's
Supermac's
Supermac's is an Irish owned fast food restaurant chain with restaurants located across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.-History:The first Supermac's opened its doors in 1978 in Main Street, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland...

United Kingdom

Bagel Nash
Bagel Nash
Bagel Nash is a British chain of bagel fast food restaurants. It was founded in 1987 by Karen and Uri Mizrahi in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Initially they bought bagels from a local Jewish baker but went on to produce their own...
Chicken Cottage
Chicken Cottage
Chicken Cottage International is a UK based fast food chain. The company is the Master Franchisor and the owner of "Chicken Cottage" brand. Its taste is modelled on a blend of South Asian and Southern US flavours using halal ingredients...
Dixy Chicken
Dixy Chicken
Dixy Chicken is a fast food chain that specialises in halal chicken. It is owned by a company in England named SABT2 Limited. The company was founded in 1986, and has 110 outlets within the UK, but have none in Scotland. six in Pakistan, four in Syria, and one each in France, Norway, and Egypt...
Favorite Chicken
Favorite Chicken
Favorite Chicken & Ribs is a chain of franchised fast food restaurants throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.As the name would suggest they specialize in chicken and ribs, though there are also fish and vegetarian options on the menu...
Frankie & Benny's
Frankie & Benny's
Frankie & Benny's is a chain of Italian-American restaurants in the UK with numerous outlets nationwide run by The Restaurant Group plc. Its first location was Leicester in 1995 but now the chain has over 150 locations across the UK and also abroad, and smaller branches called "Little...
Greggs
Greggs
Greggs plc is the largest specialist retail bakery chain in the United Kingdom. It was established in the 1930s as a single shop but has approximately 1,500 outlets....
Harry Ramsden's
Harry Ramsden's
Harry Ramsden's is a fast food restaurant chain based in the United Kingdom which offers fish and chips and assorted themed dishes. The business has 35 owned and franchised outlets throughout the UK and Ireland and serves around four million meals annually....
Little Chef
Little Chef
Little Chef is a chain of roadside restaurants in the United Kingdom, founded in 1958 and owned by the UK private equity group RCapital. Little Chef's previous owners were The People's Restaurant Group Ltd., a company belonging to British catering entrepreneurs Simon Heath and Lawrence Wosskow,...
Millie's Cookies
Millie's Cookies
Millie's Cookies is a UK chain of 107 retail bakeries, specializing in cookies, muffins, hot drinks and gifts. It was named after its founder.-History:...
Pret a Manger
Shakeaway
Shakeaway
ShakeAway is a chain of Milkshake bars based in the UK. Its first shop was opened in 1999. The company sells milkshakes made of ice cream, milk and a flavour chosen by the customer. Products made by Nestle, Cadbury's, Mars and McVitie's amongst others are used as the additional flavours...
Spud U Like
Spudulike
Spudulike is a United Kingdom-based fast food franchise founded in Edinburgh in 1974. Its products are baked potatoes , with a wide range of fillings. It has branches across Britain.- History :...
Square Pie
Square Pie
Square Pie is a British food retail chain based in Hackney, east London, which specialises in handmade pies. It was founded in 2001 by Martin Dewey, with the first outlet, "The Square Pie Company", being opened in Spitalfields Market in November of that year...
The West Cornwall Pasty Company
The West Cornwall Pasty Company
The West Cornwall Pasty Company is a fast food chain in the UK, selling pasties.-History:The West Cornish Pasty Company was launched in 1998 by Ken Cockings. After 9 years, Cockings sold the company to its management for £40 million.There are now over 50 stores in the UK, including 18 in London...
Wimpy

Canada

A&W Canada
Baker's Dozen Donuts
Baker's Dozen Donuts
Baker's Dozen Donuts is a doughnut store operator in the Canadian province of Ontario.-Overview:Founded in 1978 by Peter Paraskakis as "Baker's Dozen Donut Corporation". It is based in Mississauga, Ontario....
Burger Baron
Burger Baron
Burger Baron is a chain of fast-food restaurants in Western Canada.- History :Founded in 1957 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Burger Baron was the first drive-through chain in Western Canada. The company expanded quickly throughout the region but suffered when the big American chains began to move to the...
Chez Ashton
Chez Ashton
Chez Ashton is a popular fast food restaurant in Quebec, Canada famous for its poutine. Chez Ashton's origins can be traced to a traveling snack cart started by Ashton Leblond in 1969. It was not until 1972, however, that poutine was first offered. Ashton hooked his customers by initially giving...
Dixie Lee Fried Chicken
Dixie Lee Fried Chicken
Dixie Lee is a franchised fried chicken fast-food restaurant founded in Belleville, Ontario in 1964. Joe Murano is the president of the company since 2007. The corporate head office is located in Napanee, Ontario...
Extreme Pita
Extreme Pita
Extreme Pita is a Canadian-based fast-food chain co-founded by brothers Alex Rechichi and Mark Rechichi in 1997. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the company has more than 225 units throughout Canada and the United States....
Fast Eddies
Fast Eddies
Fast Eddies is a burger franchise started in Brantford, Ontario, Canada in 1987 and focused on drive through and walk up service only. Currently Fast Eddies operates in five Ontario cities with eight different locations and serves a variety of typical fast food with notable, relatively unique...
Freshii
Freshii (restaurant)
Freshii is a Canadian fast-food franchise that serves burritos and wraps, soups, salads and frozen yogurt. It was founded in 2005 by CEO, Matthew Corrin, and since then has expanded to 35 stores in 4 countries, including 14 in Canada, 20 in the United States, 3 in Austria and 1 in United Arab...
Harvey's
Harvey's
Harvey's is a fast food restaurant chain that operates in Canada, with locations concentrated in southern Ontario, southern Quebec, as well as the Maritimes, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Alberta. It serves hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries, onion rings, and other traditional fast food fare. The...
La Belle Province
La Belle Province (restaurant)
La Belle Province is a well-known fast-food eatery in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is known as La Belle Pro, Belle Pro, or La Belle for short nicknames. Each location is independently franchised; some are open 24 hours a day.-History:...

(Quebec)
Lafleur Restaurants
Lafleur Restaurants
Lafleur Restaurants is a chain of family-owned fast food restaurants located in the metropolitan area of Montreal.- Cuisine :Lafleur is widely known for serving the basic staples of Québécois fast food, such as hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries and poutine. It is particularly known for its hot dog...

(Quebec)
Lick's Homeburgers
Manchu Wok
Manchu Wok
Manchu Wok is a Chinese fast food trainer in the United States and Canada, similar in concept to Panda Express. Despite the name, the menu does not feature any dishes from traditional Manchurian Cuisine and instead is mostly made up of American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine...
Mary Brown's
Mary Brown's
Mary Brown's is a Canadian fast-food restaurant chain most popular for its Big Mary sandwich, chicken and 'taters' or potato wedges. Its process involves marinating chicken for up to 48 hours prior to cooking. The company has 83 locations in Canada: 38 in Newfoundland and Labrador, 30 in Ontario,...
McDonald's Canada
McDonald's Canada
McDonald's Restaurants of Canada, Ltd. is the Canadian branch of the popular fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's. One of Canada's largest fast-food restaurant chains, the franchise sells food items including hamburgers, chicken, french fries and soft drinks all across the country...
Mr. Greek
Mr. Greek
Mr. Greek is a mediterranean restaurant chain with locations throughout Ontario, Canada. There are two different franchise concepts used by Mr. Greek; Mediterranean Grill and Express. It is a leading restaurant company in Canada as well as the largest and fastest growing Greek Cuisine restaurant...
Mr. Sub
Mr. Sub
Mr. Sub, originally called Mr. Submarine before the 1990s, is a chain of 335 submarine sandwich shops in Canada. The first store was opened in 1968 in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood, which was then known for its "hippie" culture....
New York Fries
New York Fries
New York Fries is a Canadian fast food restaurant that mainly serves french fries and hot dogs. They also serve poutine, The Works , Veggie Works , and Pepsi-Cola brand beverages.There are locations in nine of the ten provinces in Canada, as well as...
The Pita Pit
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc. is a Canadian fast casual restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts. It is also Canada's largest fast food service with over 3000 stores nationwide. It was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, after an initial venture in...
Valentine
Valentine (Restaurant)
Valentine is a chain of over 100 privately owned restaurant franchises operating in the province of Quebec, Canada.The first restaurant opened in 1979 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec...

(Quebec)
Wendy's
Wendy's
Wendy's is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The company decided to move its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. It has been owned by Triarc since 2008...
White Spot
White Spot
White Spot is a Canadian restaurant chain based in Vancouver, British Columbia, best known for its hamburgers, Pirate Pak children's meal, and other home-style food, as well as its "carhop" drive-in service and "Triple O" burger sauce...
Yogen Früz
Yogen Früz
Yogen Früz is an international chain of frozen yogurt and smoothie stores that also serves healthy alternative food products. Through company-owned, franchised, and non traditional partnerships, Yogen Früz is the largest franchisor and licensor of stores and other locations that serve primarily...

United States

A&W Restaurants
A&W Restaurants
A&W Restaurants, Inc., is a chain of fast-food restaurants, distinguished by its draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W was arguably the first successful food franchise company, starting franchises in 1921 in California. Today it has franchise locations throughout the world, serving a typical...
Amigos/Kings Classic
Amigos/Kings Classic
Amigos/Kings Classic is a small Nebraska-based fast-food chain that serves Mexican and American foods. The restaurant was founded as Amigos in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1980. The chain was solely a Mexican fast-food restaurant until 1998, when many locations were co-branded with A&W Restaurants. ...
Andy's Frozen Custard
Andy's Frozen Custard
Andy's Frozen Custard is a chain of frozen custard stands with locations in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and Illinois.- History :Andy's was founded by John and Carol Kuntz in 1986 in Osage Beach, Missouri...
Arby's
Arby's
Arby's is a fast food restaurant chain in the United States and Canada. Roark Capital Group owns 81.5% of the company, with Wendy's Company owning the other 18.5%. It is primarily known for selling roast beef sandwiches and curly fries. The Arby's menu also includes chicken sandwiches, appetizers,...
Arctic Circle Restaurants
Arctic Circle Restaurants
Arctic Circle Restaurants is a chain of burger and shake restaurants based in Midvale, Utah, United States. There were 73 restaurants as of February 2011, with about a third owned by the main company and two-thirds by franchisees, in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and...
Arthur Treacher's
Arthur Treacher's
Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips is a fast food seafood restaurant chain., there were 45 stores in 8 northern states of the United States which serve fish and chips. Its main competitors are Long John Silver's and Captain D's...
Baker's Drive-Thru
Baker's Drive-thru
Baker's Drive-Thru is a chain of fast-food restaurants located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. The menu features a selection of items such as hamburgers, french fries, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and milkshakes....
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world's largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are...
Bess Eaton
Bess Eaton
Bess Eaton or Bess Eaton Donut Flour Company Incorporated started as a bread and bakery products manufacturer and later as an operator of a small chain of coffee shops based in southern New England, often serving doughnuts, bagels, and muffins. The firm filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and liquidated...
Big Apple Bagels
Big Apple Bagels
Big Apple Bagels is an American franchised chain of bakery-cafes based in Deerfield, Illinois. Coffee, along with a variety of other related products are sold. The products are sold as three different brands: Big Apple Bagels, Brewster's Coffee, and My Favorite Muffin.BAB, Inc., the parent company...
Big Boy
Big Boy (restaurant)
Big Boy is a restaurant chain with its headquarters in Warren, Michigan.Big Boy was started in 1936 by Bob Wian, in partnership with Arnold Peterson in Glendale, California, USA. Marriott Corporation bought the chain in 1967...
Biscuitville
Biscuitville
Biscuitville is a privately held regional fast-food restaurant chain consisting of 58 locations in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. The restaurants specialize in breakfast food and Southern cuisine. All biscuits served at Biscuitville restaurants are made from scratch "hot every 20...
Blake's Lotaburger
Blake's Lotaburger
Blake's Lotaburger is a New Mexico fast food chain based in Albuquerque and consisting of more than 76 stores as of 2009....
Blimpie
Blimpie
Blimpie is a submarine sandwich chain in the United States. The company is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.The first Blimpie store was opened in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1964. . By mid-2002, there were about 2,000 Blimpie outlets in operation, located in 47 U.S...
Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
The Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is an ice cream shop at a converted 1922 fireboat house at 1 Water Street on the Fulton Ferry Landing Pier in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge in the neighborhood called DUMBO....
Burger King
Burger King
Burger King, often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain...
Braum's
Braum's
Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores is a family-owned and operated chain of fast-food restaurants and grocery stores based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with a large concentration on dairy products....
Brown's Chicken & Pasta
Brown's Chicken & Pasta
Brown's Chicken & Pasta, also known simply as Brown's Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken. It is based in the Chicago Metropolitan Area.- History :...
Burger Street
Burger Street
Burger Street is a small Fast Food Restaurant chain with 17 locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and 5 locations in the Tulsa area.-Overview:...
Burgerville
Cafe Rio
Cafe Rio
Cafe Rio is a fast casual restaurant chain prominent in the Western United States with branches in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Maryland, Utah, Virginia, and Idaho, serving a variety of Mexican-style food. As of September 2011, the chain has 43 restaurants. The 44th and 45th locations...
Captain D's
Captain D's
Captain D’s is a U.S.-based chain of fast-food restaurants, specializing in seafood and fish and chips. The restaurant also features a low-carbohydrate menu. The restaurant chain's headquarters is located in Nashville, Tennessee....
Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food restaurant chain located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States. The first store has opened in Canada in Kelowna, BC. They are in the process of expanding to Mexico, Malaysia, Denmark, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam,...
Checkers
Checkers (fast food)
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. is the largest chain of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States. In June 2006, the Company went private through a merger with Taxi Holdings Corp., an affiliate of Wellspring Capital Management, a private equity firm.The company operates more than 815...

(also called Rally's)
Cheeburger Cheeburger
Cheeburger Cheeburger
Cheeburger Cheeburger is a 1950s-style burger restaurant chain that started on Sanibel Island, Florida, United States, in 1986. They specialize in cheeseburgers, french fries, onion rings, and milkshakes....
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A |"fillet"]]) is a quick service restaurant chain headquartered in College Park, Georgia, United States, specializing in chicken entrées and is known for promoting the company founder's claims of Christian values. Long associated with the southern United States, where it has been a...
Chinese Gourmet Express
Chinese Gourmet Express
Chinese Gourmet Express is the second largest fast food American restaurant chain serving Americanized Chinese cuisine .-History:Samuel Y. Sim started the chain in 1990 in the Sherman Oaks Galleria...
Church's Chicken
Church's Chicken
Church's Chicken is a US-based chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken, also trading outside North America as Texas Chicken. The chain was founded as Church's Fried Chicken To Go by George W. Church, Sr., on April 17, 1952, in San Antonio, across the street from The Alamo...
CiCi's Pizza
CiCi's Pizza
CiCi's Pizza is an American buffet restaurant chain based in Coppell, Texas, specializing in pizza. There are approximately 600 franchised and corporately owned restaurants in 35 states...
Cluck-U Chicken
Cluck-U Chicken
Cluck-U Chicken is a fast food restaurant which specializes in serving chicken. Most of their locations are in the states of Maryland and New Jersey, but there are locations in Pennsylvania as well as one location in Ohio and one international location in Lebanon...
Cook Out
Cook Out (restaurant)
Cook Out is a fast food privately owned restaurant chain in North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia. Founded in Greensboro, the chain has since expanded throughout the state and now has drive-thru restaurants in over fifty cities. Most locations consist of a double...
Cousins Subs
Cousins Subs
Cousins Submarines, better known as Cousins Subs, is a U.S. sub sandwich chain founded in 1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cousins Subs is a regional chain with stores throughout the Midwest and on the West Coast...
Crown Burgers
Crown Burgers
Crown Burgers is a small hamburger fast food restaurant chain based in Salt Lake City, Utah started in 1978 by brothers Nick and Manuel Katsanevas....
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, who also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn. The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or...
Del Taco
Del Taco
Del Taco is a North American fast food restaurant chain which specializes in American-style Mexican cuisine as well as American foods such as burgers, fries, and shakes...
Denny's
Denny's
Denny's is a full-service coffee shop/family restaurant chain. It operates over 1,500 restaurants in the United States , Canada, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan , Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.Denny's is known for always being...
Dick's Drive-In
Dick's Drive-In
Dick's Drive-In, or simply Dick's, is a fast-food restaurant chain located in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1954, Dick's is Seattle’s oldest, continuously operating fast-food restaurant. Dick's has, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, attained status as a Seattle...
Dickey's Barbecue Pit
Dickey's Barbecue Pit
Dickey's Barbecue Pit is a fast-casual barbecue restaurant that first opened in Texas in 1941 by Travis Dickey, Sr. The original, one-room location was founded with the single goal: "Serve the best tastin' barbecue imaginable, just the way people like it...
Dog n Suds
Dog n Suds
Dog n Suds is a midwestern United States chain of root beer and hot dog drive-in style eateries with the once popular and now rare form of in-car "carhop" delivery service. The chain was created in Champaign, Illinois, by school teachers James Griggs and Don Hamacher. Licensing rights are now...
Duchess
Duchess (restaurant)
Duchess is a fast-food restaurant chain in southwestern Connecticut founded by Harold and Jack Berkowitz in Bridgeport in 1956. Currently, it is privately owned and operated by Duchess Worldwide, Inc., based in Milford, Connecticut...
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts is an international doughnut and coffee retailer founded in 1950 by William Rosenberg in Quincy, Massachusetts; it is now headquartered in Canton...
Einstein Bros. Bagels
Einstein Bros. Bagels
Einstein Bros. Bagels is a bagel and coffee chain in the United States. As of 2010, there were 587 restaurants with the Einstein Bros. name.Einstein Bros. was created by a chain restaurant corporation, Boston Chicken in 1995, as a way to market breakfast foods...
El Pollo Loco
El Pollo Loco
El Pollo Loco is a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Mexican grilled chicken, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. "El Pollo Loco" is Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken".Their main dish is pollo asado, a grilled marinated chicken...
Erbert & Gerbert's
Erbert & Gerbert's
Erbert & Gerbert's Sandwich Shop is a restaurant franchise that mainly sells submarine sandwiches. The chain was founded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1987 . The company now has 47 locations throughout Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin . A new location is expected to...
Fatburger
Fatburger
Fatburger is a fast casual restaurant chain. It uses the slogan The Last Great Hamburger Stand. While it is a fast food restaurant, the food is cooked and made to order and the restaurant has a liquor license...
Firehouse Subs
Firehouse Subs
Firehouse Subs, is a US-based, fast casual restaurant chain that specializes in hot subs. Founded in 1994 in Jacksonville, Florida by former firefighter brothers Robin and Chris Sorensen, Firehouse Subs serves sandwiches with meats and cheeses, "steamed" hot and placed on produce on a toasted sub...
Fosters Freeze
Fosters Freeze
Fosters Freeze is a chain of fast-food restaurants in California. It was founded by George Foster in 1946 on La Brea Avenue in Inglewood, California, a location that still remains, and claims to have been the first fast-food chain in the state.George Foster later sold the Foster's Freeze franchise...
Freddy's Frozen Custard
Freddy's Frozen Custard
Freddy's Frozen Custard is a Wichita, Kansas-based restaurant chain, specializing in steakburgers, family recipe chili, Chicago-style hot dogs and frozen custard. The first restaurant style chain opened in Wichita, Kansas in 2002. It was headquartered at 8621 W...
Gold Star Chili
Gold Star Chili
Gold Star Chili is a restaurant chain based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that sells Cincinnati chili. The original restaurant was established in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mt. Washington in 1965 by four brothers from Jordan...
Golden Chick
Golden Chick
Golden Chick is a fast food restaurant chain serving fried chicken. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.The first restaurant was in 1967 in San Marcos, Texas under the name Golden Fried Chicken. Franchising started in 1972. A decade later, the franchise grew to a number of restaurants...
Golden Spoon
Golden Spoon
Golden Spoon is a frozen yogurt retail chain headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California with stores located in the western United States, mainly in California, Nevada and Arizona, and international locations in Tokyo, Japan and Metro Manila, Philippines.Golden Spoon yogurt is creamy and...
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard is a Golden, Colorado-based fast-food restaurant specializing in premium burgers and fresh frozen custard. Good Times Restaurants Inc. owns and operates 46 Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard locations, 44 in Colorado, with locations in Wyoming, North Dakota, and...
Grandy's
Grandy's
Grandy's Country Cookin is a homestyle cooking and comfort food restaurant chain based in San Antonio, Texas. Still known for their homestyle meals, Grandy's specializes a hearty country breakfast while the lunch and dinner meals features fried chicken, country fried steaks, catfish and eight...
Gray's Papaya
Gray's Papaya
Gray's Papaya is a hot dog restaurant with two locations on the West Side of Manhattan, open 24 hours a day year-round. The two locations of Gray's Papaya in Manhattan are:* 402 Sixth Avenue at 8th Street and* 2090 Broadway at 72nd Street....
Great Steak
Green Burrito
Green Burrito
Green Burrito is an American fast-food restaurant chain run by CKE Restaurants, Inc., located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States and serving fast-food Tex-Mex....
Griff's Hamburgers
Griff's Hamburgers
Griff's Burger Bar is a regional fast food chain founded in the early 1960s by Griff's of America, Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri, United States...
Halo Burger
Halo Burger
Halo Burger, sometimes known by its full name Bill Thomas' Halo Burger, is a fast-food restaurant chain based in Flint, Michigan, USA. Begun in 1923 as the original Kewpee location and separating from the Kewpee chain in 1967 with two locations, the chain has since grown to ten locations in the...
Happi House
Happi House
Happi House is a quick service teriyaki restaurant concept established on February 29, 1976, in San Jose's Japantown neighborhood. Happi House Restaurants, Inc. owns and operates Happi House Teriyaki restaurants throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Happi House Franchise Corporation is...
Happy Joe's
Happy Joe's
Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor is an American pizza parlor chain based in Bettendorf, Iowa. The restaurant chain was founded in 1972 by "Happy Joe" Whitty, a former Shakey's Pizza manager...
Hardee's
Hardee's
Hardee's is a restaurant chain, located mostly in the Southeast and Midwestern regions of the United States. It has evolved through several corporate ownerships since its establishment in 1960. It is currently owned and operated by CKE Restaurants. Along with its sibling restaurant chain, Carl's...
Harold's Chicken Shack
Harold's Chicken Shack
Harold's Chicken Shack is a chain of fried chicken restaurants located primarily in Chicago, particularly on its South Side. Harold's has been a Chicago South Side institution for many years and is known for its uniquely prepared chicken...
Hogi Yogi
Hogi Yogi
Hogi Yogi is a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in submarine sandwiches and frozen yogurt . A subsidiary of HYATS LLC with sister brands Teriyaki Stix and Yoasis, there are approximately 70 locations throughout Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, and California.The chain was founded in 1989 by...
Honey Dew Donuts
Honey Dew Donuts
Honey Dew Donuts is a Massachusetts-based franchise selling donuts and other breakfast foods.-History:Honey Dew Donuts was founded by Richard J. Bowen in Mansfield, Massachusetts in 1973. His aim was to create a dry and affordable donut that appealed to the hard working New Englander. Today these...
Hot Dog on a Stick
Hot Dog on a Stick
HDOS Enterprises, commonly known as Hot Dog on a Stick, is a fast food company originating in Santa Monica, California, originally founded by Dave Barham.-History:...
Hot 'n Now
Hot 'n Now
Hot 'n Now is an American fast-food restaurant chain based in Holt, Michigan. Founded in 1984, the chain grew to more than 150 locations throughout the United States at its peak...
Huddle House
Huddle House
Huddle House is a chain of 24-hour diner-style restaurants with over 430 locations in over 17 states, primarily found in Southern United States. The chain was started in 1964 in Decatur, Georgia by John Sparks, with the goal of providing a 24-hour eatery. It is named after the act of huddling in...
IHOP
IHOP
IHOP may refer to:* IHOP, a restaurant chain, formerly known as The International House of Pancakes* International House of Prayer, a Christian 24/7 prayer center in Kansas City, Missouri...

(International House of Pancakes)
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out Burger is a regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations in the western United States. Founded in 1948 by Harry Snyder and his wife Esther, establishing the first In-N-Out burger in Baldwin Park and headquartered in Irvine, California, In-N-Out Burger has since expanded outside...
Ivar's
Ivar's
Ivar's is a seafood restaurant chain based in Seattle, Washington, United States, with operations in the Puget Sound region; in Spokane, Washington; and in Santa Clara, California....
Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box is an American fast-food restaurant founded by Robert O. Peterson in 1951 in San Diego, California, where it is still headquartered today. In total, the chain has 2,200 locations, primarily serving the West Coast of the United States...
Jack's
Jack's
Jack's , originally known as Jack's Hamburgers, also known as Jack's Family Restaurants, is a fast food restaurant chain with locations in several southeastern states...
Jersey Mike's Subs
Jersey Mike's Subs
Jersey Mike's Subs is a submarine sandwich, or "sub", chain headquartered in Manasquan, New Jersey. The Jersey Mike's franchise has more than 400 stores across the United States.-History:...
Jimboy's Tacos
Jimboy's Tacos
Jimboy's Tacos is a Sacramento based Mexican style fast food chain, started in 1954 by a couple named Jim and Margaret Knudsen.-History:In 1951, Grass Valley, California restaurant owners Jim and Margaret Knudson visited a friend's house for dinner...
Johnny Rockets
Johnny Rockets
Johnny Rockets is an American restaurant franchise whose concept is to create a classic American restaurant atmosphere. The theme is the diner-style restaurant that had become a common sight by the 1950s...
Juan Pollo
Juan Pollo
Juan Pollo is a restaurant chain based in Southern California that specializes in rotisserie-broiled Mexican-style roast chicken. It was founded in 1984 by Albert Okura. His first restaurant job was working at Burger King in 1970....
KFC
KFC
KFC, founded and also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, termed a concept of Yum! Brands since 1997 when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global...
Kopp's Frozen Custard
Kopp's Frozen Custard
Kopp's Frozen Custard is a restaurant chain located in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. It specializes in frozen custard and large "jumbo" hamburgers. Founded by Elsa Kopp in 1950, the restaurants continue to be heralded by local publications for their quality food...
Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme
Krispy Kreme is the name of an international chain of doughnut stores that was founded by Vernon Rudolph in 1937 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The parent company of Krispy Kreme is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc...
Krystal
Krystal (restaurant)
Krystal is an American fast food restaurant chain known for their small, square hamburger sliders with steamed-in onions and 24/7 business hours. Krystal is often described as the Southern equivalent of the Midwest American hamburger chain White Castle...
LaMar's Donuts
LaMar's Donuts
LaMar's Donuts is a chain of doughnut shops founded in Kansas City, Missouri, and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado. LaMar's has 28 stores in seven states——and plans to expand to others.LaMar’s Donuts has won newspaper readers' poll awards for best doughnuts in several of the cities...
Larry's Giant Subs
Larry's Giant Subs
Larry's Giant Subs is a fast-food submarine sandwich chain headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Its first store opened in Jacksonville, Florida in 1982. Now, Larry's Giant Subs has over 100 operating restaurants nationwide.-History:...
Lenny's Sub Shop
Lenny's Sub Shop
Lenny's Sub Shop is a Philadelphia-style sub shop which has franchises located across the United States.-History:Lenny's was founded in Bartlett, Tennessee in 1998 by Len and Shelia Moore. There are about 200 locations across North America in 20 states...
Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's, Inc. is a United States-based fast-food restaurant that specializes in seafood. The name and concept were inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's book Treasure Island. Formerly a division of Yum! Brands, Inc., the company was divested to a group of franchisees in 2011.-History:The...
Lyon's
Lyon's
Lyon's Restaurant is a chain of diner-style restaurants, similar to Denny's. Their sites are all in Northern California, with their corporate headquarters in Sacramento.-History:...
Maid-Rite
Maid-Rite
Maid-Rite is an American casual dining franchise restaurant chain. Before it became a restaurant chain, it was a single restaurant, opened in 1926 by Fred Angell. By the end of the 1920s, there were four franchises granted; these four restaurants are still in operation.Maid-Rite Corporation's CEO...
Manchu Wok
Manchu Wok
Manchu Wok is a Chinese fast food trainer in the United States and Canada, similar in concept to Panda Express. Despite the name, the menu does not feature any dishes from traditional Manchurian Cuisine and instead is mostly made up of American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine...
McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
Mellow Mushroom
Mellow Mushroom
Mellow Mushroom is a pizzeria that started in Atlanta, Georgia and operates as a restaurant franchise with over 100 locations nationwide.Mellow Mushroom specializes in pizza, but also serves calzones, hoagies, salads, and appetizers. Pizza is sold in three sizes, but slices are available during...
Mighty Taco
Mighty Taco
Mighty Taco is a Mexican-style fast-food restaurant chain in the Buffalo, New York area. All Mighty Taco restaurants are owned and operated by Mighty Taco Inc., a privately owned corporation....
Milio's Sandwiches
Milio's Sandwiches
Milio's Sandwiches is a United States restaurant chain that mainly sells submarine sandwiches. The chain was founded in Madison, Wisconsin by Mike Liautaud. in 1989. The company has 46 locations throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. The company headquarters are located in...
Milo's Hamburgers
Milo's Hamburgers
Milo's Hamburgers is a regional fast-food restaurant chain based in Alabama, United States. As of 2007, Milo's has 16 restaurants, 14 in the Birmingham metro area, one in Southside, and one in Tuscaloosa. Milo's is known for its secret hamburger sauce and sweet tea, both included with a pie in the...
Mr. Hero
Mr. Hero
Mr. Hero is a restaurant chain selling submarine sandwiches in Northeastern Ohio. It began in 1965 when its founder Robert Coulson purchased a Cleveland restaurant and has been expanding ever since. In the beginning years of the business, Mr. Hero stores were "family-run". He divorced his wife,...
Mrs. Winner's Chicken & Biscuits
Mrs. Winner's Chicken & Biscuits
Mrs. Winner's Chicken and Biscuits is a regional fast food restaurant in the U.S. Southeast which specializes in fried chicken. Mrs. Winner's was...
Nathan's Famous
Nathan's Famous
Nathan's Famous is a company that operates a chain of U.S.-based fast food restaurants specializing in hot dogs. The original Nathan's restaurant stands at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in the Coney Island neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.-History:Nathan's began as...
Nedick's
Nedick's
Nedick's was an American chain of fast-food restaurants that originated in New York City in either 1913 or the early 1920s, per differing sources, and expanded in the 1950s to Newark, New Jersey, Albany, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C...
Nu-Way Weiners
Nu-Way Weiners
Nu-Way Weiners, Inc. is a company that operates a chain of fast food restaurants that started in Macon, Georgia, USA. Nu-Way is known for hot dogs – unique for their red color. Nu-Way also serves other breakfast and lunch items, including pancakes, grits, sandwiches, and hamburgers...
Nu Way Cafe
Nu Way Cafe
NuWay is a fast-food restaurant based in Wichita, Kansas. Opening July 4, 1930, the restaurant soon became famous for its loose-meat sandwiches and root beer. The sandwiches are similar to what is known in the Upper Midwest as tavern sandwiches and the ones served at that region's Maid-Rite...
Orange Julius
Orange Julius
Orange Julius is a chain of fruit drink beverage stores. It has been in business since the late 1920s. The eponymous beverage is a mixture of orange juice, milk, sugar, ice and vanilla flavoring.- History :...
The Original Hamburger Stand
The Original Hamburger Stand
The Original Hamburger Stand is a regional fast food chain in the southwestern United States. Besides its low cost burgers, the franchise features menu items from its sister companies Wienerschnitzel and Tastee-Freez at some of its locations...
Original Tommy's
Pal's
Pal's
Pal's Sudden Service, normally called Pal's for short, is a regional fast food restaurant chain located in northeast Tennessee and southwestern Virginia, with stores concentrated in the Tri-Cities, Tennessee metro region...
Pioneer Chicken
Pioneer Chicken
Pioneer Chicken, or Pioneer Take Out as it is officially named, is an American fried chicken restaurant which was founded in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles in 1961 by H.R. Kaufman. There are three locations remaining in Los Angeles. It still exists in China as well.During the 1980s, Los Angeles...
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits is a chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants, owned since 1993 by the Sandy Springs, Georgia-based AFC Enterprises, which was originally America's Favorite Chicken Company...
Portillo's Restaurants
Portillo's Restaurants
Portillo's is a chain of restaurants that specialize in serving Chicago-style food. Portillo's is located primarily throughout the Chicago metropolitan area, and also has two locations in southern California.-Restaurant facts:...
Port of Subs
Port of Subs
Port of Subs is a franchise submarine sandwich shop located exclusively in the western United States and headquartered in Reno, Nevada. It was founded in Sparks, Nevada under the name "Sub Shop" by two brothers from New Jersey...
Quiznos
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is a fast-food restaurant chain founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Todd Graves and Craig Silvey on August 26, 1996. The restaurant offers chicken fingers as its only main course. Raising Cane's total revenue in 2007 was $97.3 million...
Rally's
Ranch1
Ranch1
Ranch1 is a chain specializing in freshly grilled, marinated chicken breast sandwich restaurants, which is franchised by Kahala Franchising, L.L.C. of Scottsdale, Arizona. The chain was founded in New York City, New York in 1990. Through the years, Ranch 1 has opened a total of over 100 stores, of...
Red Burrito
Roy Rogers Restaurants
Runza
Saladworks
Saladworks
Saladworks, LLC is a restaurant franchise in the United States that sells made-to-order entrée salads, wraps, soups, and sandwiches. Saladworks restaurants are categorized as “fast casual,” and the company markets its menu as a healthy alternative to other fast food fare...
Schlotzsky's
Schlotzsky's
Schlotzsky's is a privately held franchise chain of restaurants, specializing in sandwiches, headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas. Schlotzsky's has more than 350 franchised and company-owned locations worldwide...
Sheetz
Sheetz
Sheetz, Inc. is a chain of gas stations/convenience stores owned by the Sheetz family. Stores are located in Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia....
Skippers Seafood & Chowder House
Skippers Seafood & Chowder House
Skippers Seafood & Chowder House is a group of independently owned and operated locations licensed by Starway Restaurants, LLC. There are currently licensed Skippers restaurants doing business in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington...
Smoothie King
Smoothie King
Smoothie King Franchises Inc. is a smoothie and health food retailer that caters to a healthy lifestyle through nutritious blended fruit-based drinks. First opening in 1973 as a stand-alone vitamin shop in Kenner, Louisiana; Smoothie King now encompasses over 600 locations and appeals to families...
Sneaky Pete's
Sneaky Pete's
Sneaky Pete's is a Birmingham, Alabama-based chain of hot-dog restaurants founded by Pete Graphos in 1966 and sold to the present-owner Bernard D'Amico in 1986. Sneaky Pete's corporate offices are located in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. As part of its franchise plan, many Sneaky Pete's stores are...
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In is an American drive-in fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, complete with carhops who sometimes wear rollerskates. As of August 31, 2010, there were 3,500 restaurants in 43 U.S. states. Sonic serves approximately 3 million customers daily.-1950s:Following...
Spangles
Spangles (restaurant)
Spangles is a family-owned fast food chain based in Wichita, Kansas. It serves 1/3-pound burgers, flatbread pita wraps, french fries, onion rings, Lactose free milkshakes and other soft-serve ice cream desserts, cinnamon rolls of which are made in Yoder, Kansas and are named after the town, and...
Steak Escape
Steak Escape
Steak Escape is a restaurant based in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Locations are typically found in food courts in shopping malls as well as airports, all serving a variety of menu items including Cheesesteaks.-External links:*...
Steak 'n Shake
Submarina
Submarina
Submarina is an American chain of fast-food restaurants. Founded in 1977, the chain specializes in sub sandwiches.-History:Submarina was founded by Ron Vickers and Les Warfield of Reno, Nevada. They opened their first shop in Poway, California and later opened the first official franchise shop in...
Subway
Subway (restaurant)
Subway is an American restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc. . Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world with 35,519 restaurants in 98 countries and territories as of October 25th, 2011...
Taco Bell
Taco Bell
Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., which serves American-adapted Mexican food. Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "Value Menu" items...
Taco Bueno
Taco Bueno
Taco Bueno is a U.S.-based fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex-style Mexican cuisine. Currently headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas, the first location was in Abilene, Texas in 1967. The company has locations in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas,...
Taco Cabana
Taco Cabana
Taco Cabana is a U.S.-based fast food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex cuisine and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrols Restaurant Group. Taco Cabana is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas...
Taco del Mar
Taco del Mar
Taco del Mar is a Seattle, Washington-based Fresh Mex fast food restaurant chain that specializes in San Francisco burritos. Since opening in Seattle on June 8, 1992 by brothers James and John Schmidt, it has expanded into over 260 locations in the U.S. and Canada...
Taco Mayo
Taco Mayo
Taco Mayo is a Mexican-American fast food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.The chain originated in Norman, Oklahoma in May 1978. By 1980, Taco Mayo had expanded into franchising by establishing three stores in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area...
Taco Tico
Taco Tico
Taco Tico is a chain of Tex-Mex cuisine fast-food restaurants. This establishment serves tacos, tostadas, nachos, enchiladas, burritos, refried beans, quesadillas, taco burgers, and sanchos available for dine-in, take-out, or drive-thru. Dan Foley opened the first Taco Tico in 1962, in his native...
Taco Time
Taco Time
Taco Time is a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in a limited menu of Mexican foods. The chain offers dine-in, take away, and drive through at about 300 locations....
Ted's Hot Dogs
Ted's Hot Dogs
Ted's Hot Dogs is a chain of hot dog restaurants based in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1927 by Greek immigrant Theodore Spiro Liaros, Ted's Hot Dogs is a Western New York tradition based primarily upon their charcoal broiled hot dogs, as well as their homemade secret hot sauce, old-fashioned milk...
Texadelphia
Texadelphia
Texadelphia is a chain of more than thirty restaurants specializing in unique cheesesteaks. Established on Guadalupe Street near The University of Texas in Austin, Texas in 1985, Texadelphia has spread to more than six major cities in Texas and Oklahoma...
The Hat
The Hat
The Hat is a Southern California fast-food restaurant specializing in pastrami sandwiches. This iconic eatery, once local only to the San Gabriel Valley, has been offering its "World Famous Pastrami" to Southern California residents since 1951. Its customers consume 13 to 15 tons of pastrami per...
The Whole Donut
The Whole Donut
The Whole Donut is a Franchise Company of donuts and coffee founded in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut.-History:The Whole Donut was founded in 1955 in Hartford, CT....
Togo's
Togo's
Togo's Eateries, Inc., is a chain of fast casual sandwich restaurants owned by Mainsail Partners. Its headquarters are in San Jose, California....
Tudor's Biscuit World
Tudor's Biscuit World
Tudor's Biscuit World is a restaurant chain based in Nitro, West Virginia, most commonly found in West Virginia. Many West Virginia locations share a building with Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti, although the chain is more extensive than Gino's , having locations in southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky...
The Varsity
The Varsity
The Varsity is a restaurant chain, iconic in the modern culture of Atlanta, Georgia. The main branch of the chain is the largest drive-in fast food restaurant in the world...
Wendy's
Wendy's
Wendy's is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The company decided to move its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. It has been owned by Triarc since 2008...
Wetzel's Pretzels
Wetzel's Pretzels
Wetzel's Pretzels is a Pasadena, California-based chain of fast-food restaurants. The first Wetzel's Pretzels location opened in 1994 at the South Bay Galleria, in Redondo Beach, California...
Whataburger
Whataburger
Whataburger is a privately held, regional restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. The company, founded by Harmon Dobson, opened its first restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950...
White Castle
White Castle (restaurant)
White Castle is an American regional fast food hamburger restaurant chain in the Midwestern United States and in the New York metropolitan area, and the first of its kind in the US. It is known for its small, square hamburgers. Sometimes referred to as "sliders", the burgers were priced at five...
Wienerschnitzel
Wienerschnitzel
Wienerschnitzel is an American fast food chain founded in 1961 that specializes in hot dogs, but is currently expanding to other items. Wienerschnitzel locations are found almost exclusively in California and Texas, though others are located in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico,...
Winchell's Donuts
Winchell's Donuts
Winchell's Donuts is an international doughnut company founded by Verne Winchell on October 8, 1948, in Temple City, California. , there are over 170 stores in 12 western states, as well as Guam, Saipan, and Saudi Arabia. Several stores also operated in Nagoya, Japan in the past, with most stores...
WingStreet
WingStreet
WingStreet is a restaurant chain specializing in chicken. It is owned by Yum! Brands, which also owns its sister franchise Pizza Hut. As of September 2008, there were close to 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are almost always co-located with Pizza Hut.-History:Pizza Hut...
Winstead's
Wing Zone
Wing Zone
Wing Zone is an Atlanta-based American restaurant chain that specializes in deep-fried food products; especially buffalo wings. There are roughly 100 Wing Zone locations in 25 American states, usually in urban areas. Wing Zone has been featured on The Food Network's Roker on the Road, Entrepreneur...
Woody's Chicago Style
Woody's Chicago Style
Woody's Chicago Style is a franchise hot dog company based in the Denver, Colorado, area, serving Chicago-style hot dogs. They are currently the second largest hot dog franchise in the United States behind Wienerschnitzel...
Yum-Yum Donuts
Yum-Yum Donuts
Yum-Yum Donuts is a chain of doughnut shops based in California, founded in 1971 by Phillip C. Holland. The original location, at Avenue 26 and Figueroa Street in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles, California is still in operation, but is now one of 70 Yum-Yum Donuts locations set to close...

Australia

Chicken Treat
Chicken Treat
Chicken Treat is an Australian barbecue chicken fast food restaurant chain that originated in 1974 in Perth, Western Australia and later expanded throughout Australia....
Chooks Fresh & Tasty
Chooks Fresh & Tasty
Chooks Fresh & Tasty was a Western Australian fast food chain that specialized in barbecued and fried chicken.-History:Chooks was originally a well known regional fast food brand named River Rooster. Operations began in Busselton and Margaret River in 1991...
Eagle Boys
Eagle Boys
Eagle Boys is an Australian fast food chain specialising in pizza. Eagle Boys has over 300 stores throughout Australia,particularly in regional areas. Currently it has no stores in Tasmania. Eagle Boys was as of 2007 the third largest pizza chain in the country....
Fast Eddys
Fasta Pasta
Fasta Pasta
Fasta Pasta is an Australian pasta restaurant chain, operating 36 sites throughout Victoria, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. Jim Rinaldi, along with 6 other partners founded Fasta Pasta.- External links :* *...
Henny Penny
Henny Penny (restaurant)
Henny Penny is a chain of 15 Quick Service Restaurants offering dine-in, take away and drive through facilities in the Newcastle Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia....
Hungry Jack's
Hungry Jack's
Hungry Jack's Pty Ltd, often colloquially abbreviated to HJ's, Hungry's or Hungie's, is the exclusive Australian master fast food franchisee of Burger King Corporation. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Competitive Foods Australia, a privately held company owned by Jack Cowin...
La Porchetta
La Porchetta
La Porchetta /por'ket:a/ is a restaurant franchise in Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia which has become one of the most successful Italian restaurants in these nations....
Noodle Box
Noodle Box
Noodle Box Pty Ltd is an Australian stir fried noodle fast food chain headquartered just outside Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded by Josh James and David Milne in 1996....
Oporto
Oporto (restaurant)
Oporto is an Australian-based fast-food franchise with a Portuguese-theme.Oporto specialises in Portuguese style chicken , burgers, chips and spicy chilli sauce...
Pancake Parlour
Pancake Parlour
The Pancake Parlour is an Australian family owned pancake restaurant chain with locations almost entirely in Melbourne.The first Pancake Parlour restaurant opened in Adelaide in 1965. The company's headquarters are currently located in Melbourne...
Red Rooster
Red Rooster
Red Rooster is an Australian fast food restaurant chain. Red Rooster specialises in selling roasted chicken and other related products.- History :...
b>'Colombo's' Pizza & Pasta Xpress]

New Zealand

Burger Fuel
Burger Fuel
BurgerFuel is a New Zealand owned chain of gourmet Burger Restaurants with 27 locations. BurgerFuel sells Spud fries, Beer Battered Fries , Kumara fries, burgers , bottled soft drinks, maltshakes and its own branded ice cream .- Menu :BurgerFuel burgers are famous for their special Aioli...
Georgie Pie
Georgie Pie
Georgie Pie was a fast food chain owned by supermarket operator Progressive Enterprises that hoped to be "New Zealand’s own homegrown alternative to the global fast-food industry giants such as McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Burger King."-History:...

- bought by McDonald's and closed

Colombo's Pizza & Pasta Xpress

Parent companies

CKE Restaurants
CKE Restaurants
CKE Restaurants, Inc. is the parent company of the Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito, and Red Burrito restaurant chains. Its headquarters are in Carpinteria, California. It was incorporated in 1964 by Carl's Jr. founder Carl Karcher as Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc.- History :In 2007, it sold...

owns Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr.
Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food restaurant chain located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States. The first store has opened in Canada in Kelowna, BC. They are in the process of expanding to Mexico, Malaysia, Denmark, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam,...

, Hardee's
Hardee's
Hardee's is a restaurant chain, located mostly in the Southeast and Midwestern regions of the United States. It has evolved through several corporate ownerships since its establishment in 1960. It is currently owned and operated by CKE Restaurants. Along with its sibling restaurant chain, Carl's...

, Green Burrito
Green Burrito
Green Burrito is an American fast-food restaurant chain run by CKE Restaurants, Inc., located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States and serving fast-food Tex-Mex....

, and Red Burrito chains.
Dunkin' Brands
Dunkin' Brands
Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc. runs several chains of fast-food restaurants. It is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts.-History:On December 12, 2005, Pernod Ricard, who had just taken control of Allied Domecq, announced plans to sell the Dunkin' Brands group...

owns Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts
Dunkin' Donuts is an international doughnut and coffee retailer founded in 1950 by William Rosenberg in Quincy, Massachusetts; it is now headquartered in Canton...

and Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world's largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are...

.
FOCUS Brands
FOCUS Brands
Focus Brands is an affiliate of the Atlanta-based private equity firm, Roark Capital Group, that owns the Schlotzsky's, Carvel, Cinnabon, and Moe's Southwest Grill brands. It purchased Cinnabon from AFC Enterprises in 2004 and Schlotzsky's from Bobby Cox Companies in 2006...

owns Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is an American chain of pretzel bakeries founded by Anne F. Beiler and her husband, Jonas, in 1988. Auntie Anne's serves products such as pretzels, dips, and beverages...

, Carvel, Cinnabon
Cinnabon
Cinnabon is a chain of American baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in high-traffic areas such as malls. The company's signature item is a grande cinnamon roll. As of July 2009, over 750 Cinnabon bakeries are in operation in over 30 countries around the world...

, Moe's Southwest Grill
Moe's Southwest Grill
Moe's Southwest Grill is an American chain of fast casual style Tex-Mex restaurants headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.Moe's was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in December 2000, by Raving Brands. In August 2007, the brand was purchased by FOCUS Brands...

, and Schlotzsky's
Schlotzsky's
Schlotzsky's is a privately held franchise chain of restaurants, specializing in sandwiches, headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas. Schlotzsky's has more than 350 franchised and company-owned locations worldwide...

.
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc. or Yum! is a United States-based Fortune 500 corporation. Yum! operates or licenses Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet restaurants worldwide....

(spin-off from PepsiCo
PepsiCo
PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

in 1997) owns KFC
KFC
KFC, founded and also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, termed a concept of Yum! Brands since 1997 when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global...

, Taco Bell
Taco Bell
Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., which serves American-adapted Mexican food. Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "Value Menu" items...

, Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's
Long John Silver's, Inc. is a United States-based fast-food restaurant that specializes in seafood. The name and concept were inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's book Treasure Island. Formerly a division of Yum! Brands, Inc., the company was divested to a group of franchisees in 2011.-History:The...

, A&W Restaurants
A&W Restaurants
A&W Restaurants, Inc., is a chain of fast-food restaurants, distinguished by its draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W was arguably the first successful food franchise company, starting franchises in 1921 in California. Today it has franchise locations throughout the world, serving a typical...

, and Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread....

franchises.

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