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• 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...
  
  
• Applebee's
  Applebee's
  Applebee’s International, Inc., is an American company which develops, franchises, and operates the Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurant chain. As of September 2011, there were 2,010 restaurants operating system-wide in the United States, one U.S. territory and 14 other countries...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company is a bakery café chain that was originally established in 1993 in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Georgia. In 1995, the company began franchising and expanding across the country. As of late 2008, the company has 110 locations in 24 states...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Bahama Breeze
  Bahama Breeze
  Bahama Breeze is an American restaurant specializing in Caribbean-inspired fresh seafood, chicken and steaks, and tropical drinks. Most locations are in suburban retail districts and tourist areas.-Locations:*Florida**Fort Lauderdale Sunrise...
  
  
• Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh is a chain of fast-casual Tex Mex restaurants founded in Newbury Park, California in 1990 and headquartered in Cypress, California. The chain emphasizes fresh ingredients, and each restaurant features a self-serve salsa bar....
  
  
• Bakers Square
  Bakers Square
  Bakers Square Restaurant & Pies is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States. Known for its pies, Bakers Square also offers full breakfast, lunch and dinner menus . It is owned by American Blue Ribbon Holdings...
  
  
• Benihana
  Benihana
  Benihana can refer to:*Benihana, Benihana's Hibachi Restaurant*Benihana * Benihana, the Japanese word for safflower...
  
  
• Bennigan's
  Bennigan's
  Bennigan's is an Irish pub-themed casual dining restaurant chain with locations throughout the United States, and in 14 countries and 15 territories outside the continental U.S...
  
  
• Bertucci's
  Bertucci's
  Bertucci's is a Northborough, Massachusetts-based private company which runs a chain of sit-down Italian restaurants offering brick oven pizza and Italian food. It also offers delivery , take-out and private dining....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Black Angus Steakhouse
  Black Angus Steakhouse
  Black Angus Steak and Seafood Restaurant was founded in 1964 by Stuart Anderson of Seattle, Washington. The restaurant chain is based in Los Altos, CA. -History:...
  
  
• Black-eyed Pea
• 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...
  
  
• Bob Evans Restaurants
  Bob Evans Restaurants
  Bob Evans Farms, Inc. is a food service, processing, and retail company based in Columbus, Ohio. The company is named after its founder, Bob Evans . It operates two family dining restaurant chains in the United States, Bob Evans Restaurants and Mimi's Cafe...
  
  
• Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits
• Bonefish Grill
  Bonefish Grill
  Bonefish Grill is a seafood restaurant chain founded on January 15, 2000 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Tim Curci and Chris Parker. It is owned and operated by OSI Restaurant Partners headquartered in Tampa, Florida....
  
  
• Boston Market
  Boston Market
  Boston Market, known as Boston Chicken until 1995, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast casual restaurants. It is owned by private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.-History:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
  Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
  The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant and Market is a seafood restaurant chain inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. As of September 2010, thirty-two Bubba Gump restaurants operate worldwide. Twenty-two of these locations are in the United States, three are in Japan, two are located in Mexico,...
  
  
• Buca di Beppo
  Buca di Beppo
  Buca di Beppo is a restaurant specializing in immigrant Southern Italian food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's Basement"...
  
  
• Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar is a casual dining restaurant and sports bar franchise in the United States that is known for its Buffalo wings.-History:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• California Pizza Kitchen
  California Pizza Kitchen
  California Pizza Kitchen , known within the food industry as CPK, is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza...
  
  
• California Tortilla
  California Tortilla
  California Tortilla is a chain of franchised fast casual Mexican restaurants, the first of which was opened in 1995 in Bethesda, Maryland by business partners Pam Felix and Alan Cohen. The chain's menu, which features burritos, is comparable to that of its competitors, such as Baja Fresh and...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• The Capital Grille
  The Capital Grille
  The Capital Grille is a national chain of upscale steakhouses; it currently has locations in twenty states and the District of Columbia. It is owned by Darden Restaurants, based in Orlando, Florida, a multi-brand restaurant operator that owns other restaurant brands such as Olive Garden and Red...
  
  
• Carino's Italian Grill
  Carino's Italian Grill
  Carino's Italian is a United States-based chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants. It has more than 170 restaurants with branches in about 30 states...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Carrabba's Italian Grill
  Carrabba's Italian Grill
  Carrabba's Italian Grill is a chain of over 200 Italian restaurants in 27 U.S. states. Its headquarters are located in Tampa, Florida.-History:...
  
  
• Carrows
  Carrows
  Carrows is a chain of casual dining restaurants that serve breakfast and lunch/dinner in the western portion of the United States. As of August 16, 2008, the chain operates 89 restaurants in California and 2 in Nevada....
  
  
• Champps Americana
  Champps
  Champps Americana is an American casual dining restaurant chain and sports bar. There are over 60 locations across the United States, with most of them on the East Coast and Midwest.-History:...
  
  
• Charlie Brown's Steakhouse
  Charlie Brown's Steakhouse
  Charlie Brown's Steakhouse is a regional American casual dining restaurant chain based in Mountainside, New Jersey. There are locations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.-History:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Cheeseburger in Paradise
• Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. is a restaurant company in the United States. The company operates 165 upscale, casual, full-service dining restaurants: 151 under The Cheesecake Factory mark, 13 under the Grand Lux Cafe mark and one under the RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen mark...
  
  
• Cheddar's Casual Café
• Chevys Fresh Mex
  Chevys Fresh Mex
  Chevys Fresh Mex is a chain of Mexican-style casual dining restaurants located in the United States. The chain was founded in 1981 by Warren Simmon, Sr. and Warren "Scooter" Simmon, Jr. in Alameda, California. The chain's headquarters are currently located in Cypress, California. The chain is owned...
  
  
• Chi-Chi's
  Chi-Chi's
  Chi-Chi's was a popular Mexican restaurant chain from 1975 to 2004. It ceased to exist within the United States following a 2003 Hepatitis A outbreak that began at one of its locations in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Chi-Chi's is still in operation in Belgium, Luxembourg, United Arab...
  
  
• Chicken Express
  Chicken Express
  Chicken Express is a small, regional chain of fast food restaurants concentrated in the Southern United States.-History:Chicken Express was established in 1988 by Stuart Group Inc...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Chili's
  Chili's
  Chili's Grill & Bar is a restaurant chain founded by Larry Lavine. The chain has more than 1400 casual dining restaurants, mostly located in the United States and Canada...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Chronic Tacos
  Chronic Tacos
  Chronic Tacos is an American restaurant chain based in San Clemente, California, specializing in Mexican-style food. It uses a third-generation recipe for its tacos and because of the assembly line nature of the preparation process, it has been referred to as a "Mexican Subway".-History:Chronic...
  
  
• Chuck-A-Rama
  Chuck-A-Rama
  Chuck-A-Rama is a chain of buffet restaurants based in Salt Lake City, Utah with eight restaurants in Utah and two in Idaho. Many of the items are what one would consider "home cooking" types of recipes rather than fine dining offerings...
  
  
• Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's is a chain of family entertainment centers. Chuck E...
  
  
• Church's
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Claim Jumper
  Claim Jumper
  Claim Jumper is a restaurant chain headquartered in Irvine, California with 45 locations in Arizona, California, Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin and Oregon. Founder Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper Restaurant in Los Alamitos, California in 1977...
  
  
• Coco's Bakery
  Coco's Bakery
  Coco's Bakery Restaurant is a chain of casual dining restaurants operating in the Western portion of the United States.-Locations:, the chain operates over 115 restaurants in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.-History:...
  
  
• Copeland's
  Copeland's
  Copeland's is a restaurant chain started by New Orleans native Al Copeland in 1983. It offers New Orleans-style cuisine and a casual sit-down family friendly atmosphere. Significantly expanding in 1990s, it claimed more than 40 locations in 12 states and offered a "steakhouse"-style expanded menu...
  
  
• Country Buffet
• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
• 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...
  
  
• Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill & Sports Bar was founded in 1979 by Irv Rossman, Jerry Rossman, Sam Massara, Joe Mazzola, and Joe Nader and is currently headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Restaurants are usually sectioned into two separate parts: The dining room, and the clubhouse with bar...
  
  
• Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's is an American restaurant and entertainment business headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Each D&B has a full-service restaurant and a video arcade. As of July 1, 2009, the company had 57 locations across the United States and two in Canada. The company also licenses the D&B concept...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Dixie Chili and Deli
  Dixie Chili and Deli
  Dixie Chili and Deli, originally Dixie Chili, is a chain of three Cincinnati chili restaurants located in the state of Kentucky. Greek immigrant Nicholas Sarakatsannis founded the first location in 1929 in Newport, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from the city of Cincinnati...
  
  
• Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza, Inc. is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Founded in 1960, Domino's is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States and has over 9,000 corporate and franchised stores in 60 countries and all 50 U.S....
  
  
• Don Pablo's
  Don Pablo's
  Don Pablo’s is a chain of Tex-Mex restaurants founded in Lubbock, Texas, in 1985. The chain has 45 restaurants in 15 states. The menu features Tex-Mex items, made-from-scratch salsa, tortillas and sauces and a range of other Mexican specialties. Don Pablo’s is a subsidiary of Avado Brands of...
  
  
• Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza is a pizza delivery restaurant chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It has nearly 200 locations in six states, with the majority of locations in Ohio...
  
  
• East of Chicago Pizza
  East of Chicago Pizza
  East of Chicago Pizza is a restaurant chain based in Willard, Ohio offering different styles of pizza along with side dishes including buffalo wings, breadsticks, and subs. They have approximately 120 restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, Vienna, WV, and Myrtle Beach, SC. The first restaurant was opened in...
  
  
• EatZi's
  EatZi's
  EatZi's is a chain of bakery, gourmet takeout markets, and restaurants, created by Philip J. Romano. It was based in Dallas, Texas, and proposes high end products. Two locations in Dallas remain open...
  
  
• Eat'n Park
  Eat'n Park
  Eat'n Park is a restaurant chain based in Homestead, Pennsylvania with over 75 locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The chain is known for its Smiley Cookies.-History:...
  
  
• El Chico
• 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...
  
  
• Elephant Bar
  Elephant Bar
  The Elephant Bar is a restaurant chain in the United States. The corporate office is located in La Mirada, California. As of July 2009, the chain comprises 47 restaurants throughout ten states with the majority in California. Elephant Bar Restaurants are also located in Arizona, California,...
  
  
• Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que, formerly Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que Shack, is a chain of southern-style barbecue restaurants serving pork ribs, chicken, and beef brisket. Dave Anderson, an Ojibwe who served as the head of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2004 to 2005, started the...
  
  

• Farmer Boys
  Farmer Boys
  Farmer Boys is a quick service restaurant chain in the Southern California area. It is based in Riverside, California.Farmer Boys describes itself as a quick service restaurant serving freshly prepared foods with casual dining style service, combined with drive-through service...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• FATZ
  FATZ
  FATZ is a casual dining restaurant chain operated by Cafe Enterprises, Inc. which is headquartered in Taylors, South Carolina. It is a regional restaurant chain with locations in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Unlike most chain restaurants, FATZ does not franchise...
  
  
• Fazoli's
  Fazoli's
  The Fazoli’s brand was created in 1988 by Jerrico, Inc, a multi-brand restaurant group based in Lexington, Kentucky, and then parent company of Long John Silver’s restaurants. Two years and five founding restaurants later, the Italian fast food concept was sold to Seed Restaurant Group, Inc. , also...
  
  
• Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries
  Five Guys
  Five Guys is a fast casual restaurant chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and French fries. Originating in Arlington, Virginia, the company's headquarters are now in Lorton, Virginia.-Food:...
  
  
• Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
• Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito, Freebirds for short, is a regional chain of fast casual burrito restaurants. Founded in 1987 in Isla Vista, California by Mark Orfalea and Pierre Dube, the restaurant chain expanded into Texas in 1990...
  
  
• Fresh Choice
  Fresh Choice
  Fresh Choice is a chain of buffet-style restaurants which operate in California, Washington, and Texas under the names Fresh Choice, Fresh Plus, Fresh Choice Express, and Zoopa. The first restaurant was opened in Sunnyvale, California in 1986, and as of 2010 there are 30 locations with two new...
  
  
• Friendly's
  Friendly's
  Friendly Ice Cream Corporation is the owner and operator of the Friendly's restaurant chain on the United States' East Coast. Founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by brothers Curtis Blake and S. Prestley Blake, 20, their first shop served double-dip cones for 5 cents...
  
  
• Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised, restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. In 2011 Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatchewan, Canada and four in Puerto Rico...
  
  
• Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti
  Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti
  Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti is a restaurant chain with 40 locations, most of them within the US state of West Virginia. Many locations are shared with Tudor's Biscuit World. Gino's serves pizza, spaghetti, sandwiches, and more. Company headquarters are located in Huntington, WV.The original...
  
  
• Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza is a privately owned restaurant chain headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska that operates fast casual Italian franchises. -History:...
  
  
• Golden Corral
  Golden Corral
  Golden Corral is an American family-style restaurant chain that features a large buffet and grill offering numerous hot and cold items, a carving station and their Brass Bell Bakery...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Ground Round
  Ground Round
  Ground Round Grill & Bar, an American casual dining restaurant, was founded in 1969 by Howard Johnson's. As of January 17, 2010 Ground Round is owned by Independent Owners Cooperative, LLC, a group of 30 franchisee owners. Independent Owners Cooperative, LLC is located in Freeport, Maine...
  
  
• Hard Rock Cafe
  Hard Rock Cafe
  Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hobee's Restaurant
  Hobee's Restaurant
  Hobee's is a chain of sit-down restaurants in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in Northern California. Paul Taber, the founder, bought the Dairy Belle in Mountain View, California, and opened the first Hobee's restaurant in 1974...
  
  
• Hooters
  Hooters
  Hooters is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida...
  
  
• Houlihan's
  Houlihan's
  Houlihan's is a Leawood, Kansas-based American contemporary restaurant chain. The first Houlihan's opened on April 1, 1972 on Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, and is now in 21 states...
  
  
• Houston's Restaurant
  Houston's Restaurant
  Houston's Restaurant is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Beverly Hills, California with restauants in 12 states, as well as in the District of Columbia.-Company profile:...
  
  
• Howard Johnson's
  Howard Johnson's
  Howard Johnson's is a chain of hotels and restaurants, located primarily throughout the United States and Canada. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Howard Johnson's was the largest restaurant chain in the United States, with over 1,000 restaurants...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• HuHot Mongolian Grill
  HuHot Mongolian Grill
  HuHot Mongolian Grill is an American restaurant chain specializing in a pan-Asian create-your-own stir fry cuisine. Based in Missoula, Montana, there are currently 39 HuHot Mongolian Grills in 14 states, the vast majority located in the Midwest and the Mountain West states.-HuHot Mongolian Grill...
  
  
• Hungry Howie's Pizza
  Hungry Howie's Pizza
  Hungry Howie's is the 11th largest pizza chain in the United States, with 575 locations. Their products include pizza, calzone style subs, chicken wings and tenders, bread, and salads. It is noted for introducing the concept of a flavored pizza crust first offered at its Ypsilanti, Michigan,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli is a fast casual deli restaurant chain headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, United States.-History:Jason's Deli was founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1976 by Joe Tortorice Jr. and his partners Rusty Coco, Pete Verde and Pat Broussard....
  
  
• Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza is a fast casual sandwich and pizza restaurant chain in the Washington, DC area and currently has over 140 locations. Jerry's was founded in 1954 in Wheaton, Maryland and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's is a franchised sandwich restaurant founded by Jimmy John Liautaud in 1983 and headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. The franchise has over 1000 locations in 39 states and has opened approximately 200 units per year for the last three years...
  
  
• Jim's Restaurants
• Joe's Crab Shack
  Joe's Crab Shack
  Joe's Crab Shack is an American chain of beach-themed seafood casual dining restaurants owned by Ignite Restaurant Group. Founded in Houston, Texas, the restaurant now operates locations all across the country. It serves seafood and American cuisine. The restaurants also have a gift shop that sells...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
  L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
  L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, or simply L&L and known as L&L Drive-Inn in Hawaii, is a theme franchise restaurant chain based in Honolulu, Hawaii centered on the Hawaiian plate lunch .- History :...
  
  
• Landry's Restaurants
  Landry's Restaurants
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• Ledo Pizza
  Ledo Pizza
  Ledo Pizza is a pizzeria restaurant chain in the Southeastern United States, with the heaviest concentration in Maryland and Virginia. Their first pizzeria was opened in Adelphi, Maryland, in 1955 on University Boulevard in Adelphi Shopping Center near the University of Maryland, College Park...
  
  
• Lee Roy Selmon's
  Lee Roy Selmon's
  Lee Roy Selmon's is an American sports bar restaurant chain located in Florida founded by former NFL player Lee Roy Selmon. Selmon was the first member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to be voted into the NFL hall of fame, and his popularity in the Tampa Bay metro area allowed this restaurant concept...
  
  
• Little Caesars
  Little Caesars
  Little Caesars is a pizza chain, estimated to be the 4th largest in the United States. The Little Caesars headquarters is located in the Fox Theatre building in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.-History:...
  
  
• Logan's Roadhouse
  Logan's Roadhouse
  Logan's Roadhouse is a chain of restaurants that was founded in 1991 in Lexington, Kentucky, and in 1999 became a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly held CBRL Group, Inc...
  
  
• Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
  Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
  Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon is a casual dining restaurant chain, serving steak, seafood, salad, and similar food items. Lone Star opened its first restaurant in 1987 in Tampa,Florida. In March 1992, Lone Star became a public company with eight restaurants opened. On February 18, 2008, Lone Star...
  
  
• LongHorn Steakhouse
  LongHorn Steakhouse
  LongHorn Steakhouse is a restaurant chain, with locations throughout the Eastern United States and in Puerto Rico. Most of its restaurants are in the Southern United States. It also has a few locations in the Midwest, Southwest, and Puerto Rico...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Luby's
  Luby's
  As of March 2011, Luby's, Inc. operates restaurants under the brands Luby's, Fuddruckers and...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Northern Ireland founded in Chicago's River North neighborhood in 1991 by Richard Melman's Lettuce Entertain You and named for Melman's late partner,...
  
  
• Marie Callender's
  Marie Callender's
  Marie Callender’s is a restaurant chain with 74 locations in seven western states. One East Side Mario’s restaurant also is part of the chain, a remnant of the period when the chain owned the ESM concept, purchased from Pepsico....
  
  
• Max & Erma's
  Max & Erma's
  Max & Erma's is a casual dining restaurant chain based in Columbus, Ohio. It operates throughout parts of the Eastern and Midwestern United States, and was founded in 1972 by Todd Barnum and Barry Zacks. The two businessmen purchased a local tavern in Columbus's German Village which had been...
  
  
• McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli is a chain of fast casual restaurants founded in 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi by retired dentist Dr. Don Newcomb. There are currently over 300 locations in 23 states, ranging from Virginia in the East to Florida in the South to New Mexico in West to Indiana in the Midwest...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• The Melting Pot
  The Melting Pot (restaurant)
  The Melting Pot is a chain of franchised fondue restaurants located across the United States. There were 142 locations as of August 2009, with 28 more locations under development...
  
  
• Mazzio's Italian Eatery
  Mazzio's
  Mazzio's Corporation is the parent company of Mazzio's Italian Eatery and the former parent company of Zio's Italian Kitchen. In November 2007 Zio's Italian Kitchen was sold to a private company....
  
  
• Miller's Ale House
  Miller's Ale House
  Miller's Ale House is a Florida-based restaurant chain which serves steaks, chicken, burgers, salads, seafood, and similar items. Though most of their locations are located in Florida, there are a small number of facilities now open in Georgia, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Mitchell's Fish Market
• 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...
  
  
• Montana Mike's
  Montana Mike's
  Montana Mike's is a full-service steakhouse that is part of the Stockade Companies.Montana Mike's has twenty-three locations in seven states, featuring steak, grilled chicken, baby-back ribs, and catfish. Their slogan of "Welcome to 'Big Steak Country' " shows the emphasis on steak.-External...
  
  
• 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. Fields
  Mrs. Fields
  Mrs. Fields Famous Brands is a franchisor in the snack food industry, with Mrs. Fields and TCBY as its core brands. Through its franchisees’ retail stores, it is one of the largest retailers of freshly baked, on-premises specialty cookies and brownies in the US and the largest retailer of...
  
  
• Naugles
  Naugles
  Naugles was a Southern California fast-food Mexican restaurant chain that existed from 1970 to 1988. It was founded by former Del Taco employee Dick Naugle. The first Naugles restaurant was located at the southwest corner of Fourteenth St. and Brockton Ave. in Riverside, California...
  
  
• Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company is a chain of fast casual restaurants located in parts of the United States specializing in proprietary and regionally popular pasta bowls inspired from worldwide cuisine all made-to-order.The company is privately held, with Catterton Partners...
  
  
• O'Charley's
  O'Charley's
  O'Charley's is a casual dining restaurants chain in the United States, with more than 240 company-owned locations. O'Charley's is located in 17 Southern and Midwestern states, including four franchised O'Charley's restaurants in Michigan, one franchised O'Charley's in Ohio, three joint venture...
  
  
• Old Country Buffet
• Olive Garden
  Olive Garden
  Olive Garden is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American cuisine. It is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is headquartered in an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, near Orlando. Olive Garden operates more than 730 locations globally.- History :The...
  
  
• On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina is a chain of Texmex food casual dining restaurants located in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and recently opened in Egypt, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea...
  
  
• Outback Steakhouse
  Outback Steakhouse
  Outback Steakhouse is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 1200 locations in 22 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in February 1988 in Tampa by Bob Basham, Chris T...
  
  
• The Old Spaghetti Factory
  The Old Spaghetti Factory
  The Old Spaghetti Factory is an Italian-style restaurant currently operating in 40 locations in several U.S. states, primarily Oregon, Washington, California and Utah as well as Nagoya in Japan,[3] and previously in Kobe and Kawagoe, Saitama .There are also Old Spaghetti Factories in Canada There...
  
  
• The Original Italian Pie
  The Original Italian Pie
  The Original Italian Pie is a chain of informal Italian-American restaurants. It was founded in 1992 by Musa Ulusan and his wife Fatima. Their first restaurant was located on Bienville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana...
  
  
• The Original Pancake House
  The Original Pancake House
  The Original Pancake House is a chain of pancake houses across the United States. It follows traditional recipes and ingredients for their pancakes, but they have other breakfast items on their menu as well.-History:...
  
  
• Panera Bread
  Panera Bread
  Panera Bread is a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada that sells breads, sandwiches, soups, salads, and other bakery items. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.-Corporate history:In 1993, Au Bon Pain Co...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Papa Gino's
  Papa Gino's
  Papa Gino's is a restaurant chain based in Dedham, Massachusetts specializing in American-style pizza along with pasta, subs, salads, and a variety of appetizers...
  
  
• Papa John's Pizza
  Papa John's Pizza
  Papa John's Pizza is the third largest take-out and delivery pizza restaurant chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. It is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Papa John's slogan is "Better Ingredients. Better pizza. Papa John's"...
  
  

• Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake pizza
  Papa Murphy's
  Papa Murphy's, a business based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, is a take-and-bake pizza company.-History:The chain of take and bake pizzerias traces its history back to 1981, when the Papa Aldo's Pizza chain was begun in Hillsboro, Oregon. Three years later Murphy's Pizza chain began in...
  
  
• Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner is a restaurant chain in the United States. Owned by P. F. Chang's China Bistro , it offers a modest selection of freshly prepared Asian items influenced by the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand...
  
  
• Penn Station (restaurant)
  Penn Station (restaurant)
  Penn Station is a chain of East Coast sub restaurants found throughout the South and Midwest United States. The first restaurant was opened in 1985 by Jeff Osterfeld in Cincinnati, Ohio...
  
  
• Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
  Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
  Perkins Restaurant and Bakery is a North American casual dining restaurant chain which serves breakfast throughout the day, including pancakes. Perkins also has a bakery that sells pastries that are baked fresh daily.- History :...
  
  
• P. F. Chang's China Bistro
  P. F. Chang's China Bistro
  'P. F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. is an American restaurant chain with headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.The chain was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993 by Paul Fleming and Philip Chiang. The restaurants serve American Chinese cuisine from a menu originally conceived and planned by chef...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn is a restaurant chain and international food franchise, specializing in American-style pizza. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas....
  
  
• Pizza Ranch
  Pizza Ranch
  The Pizza Ranch, Inc., founded in 1981, is a "fast casual" restaurant chain. Pizza Ranch offers pizza, chicken, a salad bar, and a pizza and chicken buffet. Pizza Ranch has over 145 locations in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Kansas...
  
  
• Planet Hollywood
  Planet Hollywood
  Planet Hollywood, a restaurant inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood, was launched in New York on October 22, 1991, with the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.-History:...
  
  
• Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse
• 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...
  
  
• Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works is a privately held restaurant chain that sells submarine sandwiches in the United States. Its name is derived from potbelly stoves common in the late 19th century. The company is headquartered in the tower of the Merchandise Mart in the Near North Side, Chicago,...
  
  
• Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill , is a chain of fast casual "Fresh Mex" restaurants in the United States serving Mexican-style cuisine. The company is owned by Jack in the Box, having been owned and expanded by ACI Capital until 2003....
  
  
• Quaker Steak & Lube
  Quaker Steak & Lube
  Quaker Steak & Lube is a casual dining restaurant chain based in Sharon, Pennsylvania. The original restaurant was built in 1974 by George "Jig" Warren and Gary "Mo" Meszaros in an abandoned gas station in downtown Sharon, and decorated with license plates and old automobiles...
  
  
• Quiznos
• RA Sushi
• Rainforest Cafe
  Rainforest Cafe
  Rainforest Cafe is a themed restaurant chain owned by Landry's Restaurants, Inc. of Houston, Texas. It was founded by entrepreneur Steven Schussler. The first location opened in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on February 3, 1994. In 1997, the chain consisted of only six restaurants,...
  
  
• Rally's
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rax
• Red Hot & Blue
  Red Hot & Blue (restaurant)
  Red Hot & Blue is a Memphis style barbecue restaurant franchise founded by the late Lee Atwater and former House of Representatives member Don Sundquist of Memphis, Tennessee, among others.-History:...
  
  
• Red Lobster
  Red Lobster
  Red Lobster is a U.S. chain of seafood restaurants. It also operates in Canada, the UAE and Japan . It is aimed at the mid-level "casual dining" segment of the market...
  
  
• Red Robin
  Red Robin
  Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is a chain of casual dining restaurants founded in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, and now headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.-History:...
  
  
• Redstone American Grill
  Redstone American Grill
  Redstone American Grill is a restaurant chain with locations in several the U.S. states. The company is positioned between upscale restaurants and more casual chains such as T.G.I. Fridays...
  
  
• Robeks
  Robeks
  Robeks is a smoothie franchise chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California....
  
  
• Rock Bottom
• Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The first restaurant was founded by Texas restaurateur Philip J. Romano in Leon Springs, Texas, on April 19, 1988. Brinker International bought the...
  
  
• Round Table Pizza
  Round Table Pizza
  Round Table Pizza is a large chain of pizza parlors in the western United States. The company's headquarters are located in Concord, California.The company slogan for many years has been "The Last Honest Pizza".- History :...
  
  
• Roy Rogers Restaurants
• Roy's
  Roy's
  Roy's is a restaurant chain specializing in Hawaiian fusion and Asian fusion cuisine, with a focus on seafood. Roy's is headquartered in Tampa, Florida....
  
  
• Ruby Tuesday
  Ruby Tuesday (restaurant)
  Ruby Tuesday is an American casual dining restaurant chain named after the Rolling Stones' song of the same name.- History :The first restaurant was founded in 1972 by five University of Tennessee students, and is now headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee. The first location was adjacent to UT's...
  
  
• Ruth's Chris Steak House
  Ruth's Chris Steak House
  Ruth's Chris Steak House is a chain of more than 121 steakhouses across the United States and in several international locations. The restaurant is regarded as an upscale fine dining establishment, marking a gradual elevation in its status since its founding in the 1960s...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sbarro
  Sbarro
  Sbarro is a bankrupt chain of pizza restaurants that specializes in traditional Italian cuisine, including its most popular menu item "pizza by the slice." Its headquarters is located in Melville, Huntington, New York.- History :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Seasons 52
  Seasons 52
  Seasons 52 is a restaurant chain owned by the Darden Restaurants, which also owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, and Bahama Breeze. The restaurant has four menus that are used throughout the year, one for each of the four seasons. Their menu also varies...
  
  
• Seattle's Best Coffee
  Seattle's Best Coffee
  Seattle's Best Coffee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starbucks, is a specialty coffee retailer and wholesaler based in Seattle, Washington.Seattle's Best Coffee has retail stores and grocery sub-stores in 20 states and provinces and the District of Columbia. Sub-stores can also be found within many...
  
  
• Shane's Rib Shack
  Shane's Rib Shack
  Shane's Rib Shack is an American fast casual BBQ franchise, serving slow-cooked baby back ribs, hand-chopped chicken and pork, and Southern style side dishes.-Founders:...
  
  
• Shoney's
  Shoney's
  Shoney’s is a privately held restaurant chain that operates primarily in the Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It is named after Alex Schoenbaum, who was the owner of the original chain of Big Boy restaurants in the southeastern United States...
  
  
• Sizzler
  Sizzler
  Sizzler is a United States-based restaurant chain with headquarters in Culver City, California. The chain serves steak, seafood, and salad , as well as similar items.-History:...
  
  
• Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili is a chain of chili restaurants based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1949 by Greek immigrant Nicholas Lambrinides, Skyline Chili is named for the view of Cincinnati's skyline that Lambrinides could see from his first restaurant , opened in the section of town now known as Price Hill...
  
  
• Smokey Bones
  Smokey Bones Barbeque and Grill
  Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill is a chain of casual dining restaurants. An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Smokey Bones is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, United States. The first Smokey Bones restaurant opened in Orlando, Florida, in 1999 under its then owners, Darden Restaurants...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes
  Souplantation
  Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes are the two names given the same buffet style chain of United States restaurants. The first Souplantation opened in San Diego in 1978, and the company was incorporated as Garden Fresh Corp., in 1983...
  
  

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• 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...
  
   
• Applebee's
  Applebee's
  Applebee’s International, Inc., is an American company which develops, franchises, and operates the Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurant chain. As of September 2011, there were 2,010 restaurants operating system-wide in the United States, one U.S. territory and 14 other countries...
  
  
• 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,...
  
   
• Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company is a bakery café chain that was originally established in 1993 in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Georgia. In 1995, the company began franchising and expanding across the country. As of late 2008, the company has 110 locations in 24 states...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Bahama Breeze
  Bahama Breeze
  Bahama Breeze is an American restaurant specializing in Caribbean-inspired fresh seafood, chicken and steaks, and tropical drinks. Most locations are in suburban retail districts and tourist areas.-Locations:*Florida**Fort Lauderdale Sunrise...
  
   
• Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh is a chain of fast-casual Tex Mex restaurants founded in Newbury Park, California in 1990 and headquartered in Cypress, California. The chain emphasizes fresh ingredients, and each restaurant features a self-serve salsa bar....
  
   
• Bakers Square
  Bakers Square
  Bakers Square Restaurant & Pies is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States. Known for its pies, Bakers Square also offers full breakfast, lunch and dinner menus . It is owned by American Blue Ribbon Holdings...
  
  
• Benihana
  Benihana
  Benihana can refer to:*Benihana, Benihana's Hibachi Restaurant*Benihana * Benihana, the Japanese word for safflower...
  
  
• Bennigan's
  Bennigan's
  Bennigan's is an Irish pub-themed casual dining restaurant chain with locations throughout the United States, and in 14 countries and 15 territories outside the continental U.S...
  
  
• Bertucci's
  Bertucci's
  Bertucci's is a Northborough, Massachusetts-based private company which runs a chain of sit-down Italian restaurants offering brick oven pizza and Italian food. It also offers delivery , take-out and private dining....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Black Angus Steakhouse
  Black Angus Steakhouse
  Black Angus Steak and Seafood Restaurant was founded in 1964 by Stuart Anderson of Seattle, Washington. The restaurant chain is based in Los Altos, CA. -History:...
  
  
• Black-eyed Pea
• 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...
  
  
• Bob Evans Restaurants
  Bob Evans Restaurants
  Bob Evans Farms, Inc. is a food service, processing, and retail company based in Columbus, Ohio. The company is named after its founder, Bob Evans . It operates two family dining restaurant chains in the United States, Bob Evans Restaurants and Mimi's Cafe...
  
  
• Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits 
• Bonefish Grill
  Bonefish Grill
  Bonefish Grill is a seafood restaurant chain founded on January 15, 2000 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Tim Curci and Chris Parker. It is owned and operated by OSI Restaurant Partners headquartered in Tampa, Florida....
  
   
• Boston Market
  Boston Market
  Boston Market, known as Boston Chicken until 1995, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast casual restaurants. It is owned by private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.-History:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
  Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
  The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant and Market is a seafood restaurant chain inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. As of September 2010, thirty-two Bubba Gump restaurants operate worldwide. Twenty-two of these locations are in the United States, three are in Japan, two are located in Mexico,...
  
  
• Buca di Beppo
  Buca di Beppo
  Buca di Beppo is a restaurant specializing in immigrant Southern Italian food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's Basement"...
  
  
• Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar is a casual dining restaurant and sports bar franchise in the United States that is known for its Buffalo wings.-History:...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• California Pizza Kitchen
  California Pizza Kitchen
  California Pizza Kitchen , known within the food industry as CPK, is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza...
  
  
• California Tortilla
  California Tortilla
  California Tortilla is a chain of franchised fast casual Mexican restaurants, the first of which was opened in 1995 in Bethesda, Maryland by business partners Pam Felix and Alan Cohen. The chain's menu, which features burritos, is comparable to that of its competitors, such as Baja Fresh and...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• The Capital Grille
  The Capital Grille
  The Capital Grille is a national chain of upscale steakhouses; it currently has locations in twenty states and the District of Columbia. It is owned by Darden Restaurants, based in Orlando, Florida, a multi-brand restaurant operator that owns other restaurant brands such as Olive Garden and Red...
  
  
• Carino's Italian Grill
  Carino's Italian Grill
  Carino's Italian is a United States-based chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants. It has more than 170 restaurants with branches in about 30 states...
  
   
• 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,...
  
  
• Carrabba's Italian Grill
  Carrabba's Italian Grill
  Carrabba's Italian Grill is a chain of over 200 Italian restaurants in 27 U.S. states. Its headquarters are located in Tampa, Florida.-History:...
  
  
• Carrows
  Carrows
  Carrows is a chain of casual dining restaurants that serve breakfast and lunch/dinner in the western portion of the United States. As of August 16, 2008, the chain operates 89 restaurants in California and 2 in Nevada....
  
  
• Champps Americana
  Champps
  Champps Americana is an American casual dining restaurant chain and sports bar. There are over 60 locations across the United States, with most of them on the East Coast and Midwest.-History:...
  
  
• Charlie Brown's Steakhouse
  Charlie Brown's Steakhouse
  Charlie Brown's Steakhouse is a regional American casual dining restaurant chain based in Mountainside, New Jersey. There are locations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.-History:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Cheeseburger in Paradise 
• Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. is a restaurant company in the United States. The company operates 165 upscale, casual, full-service dining restaurants: 151 under The Cheesecake Factory mark, 13 under the Grand Lux Cafe mark and one under the RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen mark...
  
  
• Cheddar's Casual Café
• Chevys Fresh Mex
  Chevys Fresh Mex
  Chevys Fresh Mex is a chain of Mexican-style casual dining restaurants located in the United States. The chain was founded in 1981 by Warren Simmon, Sr. and Warren "Scooter" Simmon, Jr. in Alameda, California. The chain's headquarters are currently located in Cypress, California. The chain is owned...
  
  
• Chi-Chi's
  Chi-Chi's
  Chi-Chi's was a popular Mexican restaurant chain from 1975 to 2004. It ceased to exist within the United States following a 2003 Hepatitis A outbreak that began at one of its locations in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Chi-Chi's is still in operation in Belgium, Luxembourg, United Arab...
  
  
• Chicken Express
  Chicken Express
  Chicken Express is a small, regional chain of fast food restaurants concentrated in the Southern United States.-History:Chicken Express was established in 1988 by Stuart Group Inc...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Chili's
  Chili's
  Chili's Grill & Bar is a restaurant chain founded by Larry Lavine. The chain has more than 1400 casual dining restaurants, mostly located in the United States and Canada...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Chronic Tacos
  Chronic Tacos
  Chronic Tacos is an American restaurant chain based in San Clemente, California, specializing in Mexican-style food. It uses a third-generation recipe for its tacos and because of the assembly line nature of the preparation process, it has been referred to as a "Mexican Subway".-History:Chronic...
  
   
• Chuck-A-Rama
  Chuck-A-Rama
  Chuck-A-Rama is a chain of buffet restaurants based in Salt Lake City, Utah with eight restaurants in Utah and two in Idaho. Many of the items are what one would consider "home cooking" types of recipes rather than fine dining offerings...
  
  
• Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's is a chain of family entertainment centers. Chuck E...
  
  
• Church's
  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...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Claim Jumper
  Claim Jumper
  Claim Jumper is a restaurant chain headquartered in Irvine, California with 45 locations in Arizona, California, Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin and Oregon. Founder Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper Restaurant in Los Alamitos, California in 1977...
  
  
• Coco's Bakery
  Coco's Bakery
  Coco's Bakery Restaurant is a chain of casual dining restaurants operating in the Western portion of the United States.-Locations:, the chain operates over 115 restaurants in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.-History:...
  
  
• Copeland's
  Copeland's
  Copeland's is a restaurant chain started by New Orleans native Al Copeland in 1983. It offers New Orleans-style cuisine and a casual sit-down family friendly atmosphere. Significantly expanding in 1990s, it claimed more than 40 locations in 12 states and offered a "steakhouse"-style expanded menu...
  
  
• Country Buffet
• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
• 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...
  
  
• Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill & Sports Bar was founded in 1979 by Irv Rossman, Jerry Rossman, Sam Massara, Joe Mazzola, and Joe Nader and is currently headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Restaurants are usually sectioned into two separate parts: The dining room, and the clubhouse with bar...
  
  
• Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's is an American restaurant and entertainment business headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Each D&B has a full-service restaurant and a video arcade. As of July 1, 2009, the company had 57 locations across the United States and two in Canada. The company also licenses the D&B concept...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Dixie Chili and Deli
  Dixie Chili and Deli
  Dixie Chili and Deli, originally Dixie Chili, is a chain of three Cincinnati chili restaurants located in the state of Kentucky. Greek immigrant Nicholas Sarakatsannis founded the first location in 1929 in Newport, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from the city of Cincinnati...
  
  
• Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza, Inc. is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Founded in 1960, Domino's is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States and has over 9,000 corporate and franchised stores in 60 countries and all 50 U.S....
  
  
• Don Pablo's
  Don Pablo's
  Don Pablo’s is a chain of Tex-Mex restaurants founded in Lubbock, Texas, in 1985. The chain has 45 restaurants in 15 states. The menu features Tex-Mex items, made-from-scratch salsa, tortillas and sauces and a range of other Mexican specialties. Don Pablo’s is a subsidiary of Avado Brands of...
  
   
• Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza is a pizza delivery restaurant chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It has nearly 200 locations in six states, with the majority of locations in Ohio...
  
   
• East of Chicago Pizza
  East of Chicago Pizza
  East of Chicago Pizza is a restaurant chain based in Willard, Ohio offering different styles of pizza along with side dishes including buffalo wings, breadsticks, and subs. They have approximately 120 restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, Vienna, WV, and Myrtle Beach, SC. The first restaurant was opened in...
  
   
• EatZi's
  EatZi's
  EatZi's is a chain of bakery, gourmet takeout markets, and restaurants, created by Philip J. Romano. It was based in Dallas, Texas, and proposes high end products. Two locations in Dallas remain open...
  
   
• Eat'n Park
  Eat'n Park
  Eat'n Park is a restaurant chain based in Homestead, Pennsylvania with over 75 locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The chain is known for its Smiley Cookies.-History:...
  
  
• El Chico 
• 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...
  
  
• Elephant Bar
  Elephant Bar
  The Elephant Bar is a restaurant chain in the United States. The corporate office is located in La Mirada, California. As of July 2009, the chain comprises 47 restaurants throughout ten states with the majority in California. Elephant Bar Restaurants are also located in Arizona, California,...
  
   
• Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que, formerly Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que Shack, is a chain of southern-style barbecue restaurants serving pork ribs, chicken, and beef brisket. Dave Anderson, an Ojibwe who served as the head of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2004 to 2005, started the...
  
  

• Farmer Boys
  Farmer Boys
  Farmer Boys is a quick service restaurant chain in the Southern California area. It is based in Riverside, California.Farmer Boys describes itself as a quick service restaurant serving freshly prepared foods with casual dining style service, combined with drive-through service...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• FATZ
  FATZ
  FATZ is a casual dining restaurant chain operated by Cafe Enterprises, Inc. which is headquartered in Taylors, South Carolina. It is a regional restaurant chain with locations in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Unlike most chain restaurants, FATZ does not franchise...
  
  
• Fazoli's
  Fazoli's
  The Fazoli’s brand was created in 1988 by Jerrico, Inc, a multi-brand restaurant group based in Lexington, Kentucky, and then parent company of Long John Silver’s restaurants. Two years and five founding restaurants later, the Italian fast food concept was sold to Seed Restaurant Group, Inc. , also...
  
  
• Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries
  Five Guys
  Five Guys is a fast casual restaurant chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and French fries. Originating in Arlington, Virginia, the company's headquarters are now in Lorton, Virginia.-Food:...
  
  
• Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
• Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito, Freebirds for short, is a regional chain of fast casual burrito restaurants. Founded in 1987 in Isla Vista, California by Mark Orfalea and Pierre Dube, the restaurant chain expanded into Texas in 1990...
  
  
• Fresh Choice
  Fresh Choice
  Fresh Choice is a chain of buffet-style restaurants which operate in California, Washington, and Texas under the names Fresh Choice, Fresh Plus, Fresh Choice Express, and Zoopa. The first restaurant was opened in Sunnyvale, California in 1986, and as of 2010 there are 30 locations with two new...
  
   
• Friendly's
  Friendly's
  Friendly Ice Cream Corporation is the owner and operator of the Friendly's restaurant chain on the United States' East Coast. Founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by brothers Curtis Blake and S. Prestley Blake, 20, their first shop served double-dip cones for 5 cents...
  
  
• Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised, restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. In 2011 Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatchewan, Canada and four in Puerto Rico...
  
   
• Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti
  Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti
  Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti is a restaurant chain with 40 locations, most of them within the US state of West Virginia. Many locations are shared with Tudor's Biscuit World. Gino's serves pizza, spaghetti, sandwiches, and more. Company headquarters are located in Huntington, WV.The original...
  
  
• Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza is a privately owned restaurant chain headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska that operates fast casual Italian franchises. -History:...
  
   
• Golden Corral
  Golden Corral
  Golden Corral is an American family-style restaurant chain that features a large buffet and grill offering numerous hot and cold items, a carving station and their Brass Bell Bakery...
  
   
• 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....
  
  
• Ground Round
  Ground Round
  Ground Round Grill & Bar, an American casual dining restaurant, was founded in 1969 by Howard Johnson's. As of January 17, 2010 Ground Round is owned by Independent Owners Cooperative, LLC, a group of 30 franchisee owners. Independent Owners Cooperative, LLC is located in Freeport, Maine...
  
   
• Hard Rock Cafe
  Hard Rock Cafe
  Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hobee's Restaurant
  Hobee's Restaurant
  Hobee's is a chain of sit-down restaurants in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in Northern California. Paul Taber, the founder, bought the Dairy Belle in Mountain View, California, and opened the first Hobee's restaurant in 1974...
  
  
• Hooters
  Hooters
  Hooters is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida...
  
   
• Houlihan's
  Houlihan's
  Houlihan's is a Leawood, Kansas-based American contemporary restaurant chain. The first Houlihan's opened on April 1, 1972 on Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, and is now in 21 states...
  
   
• Houston's Restaurant
  Houston's Restaurant
  Houston's Restaurant is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Beverly Hills, California with restauants in 12 states, as well as in the District of Columbia.-Company profile:...
  
  
• Howard Johnson's
  Howard Johnson's
  Howard Johnson's is a chain of hotels and restaurants, located primarily throughout the United States and Canada. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Howard Johnson's was the largest restaurant chain in the United States, with over 1,000 restaurants...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• HuHot Mongolian Grill
  HuHot Mongolian Grill
  HuHot Mongolian Grill is an American restaurant chain specializing in a pan-Asian create-your-own stir fry cuisine. Based in Missoula, Montana, there are currently 39 HuHot Mongolian Grills in 14 states, the vast majority located in the Midwest and the Mountain West states.-HuHot Mongolian Grill...
  
   
• Hungry Howie's Pizza
  Hungry Howie's Pizza
  Hungry Howie's is the 11th largest pizza chain in the United States, with 575 locations. Their products include pizza, calzone style subs, chicken wings and tenders, bread, and salads. It is noted for introducing the concept of a flavored pizza crust first offered at its Ypsilanti, Michigan,...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli is a fast casual deli restaurant chain headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, United States.-History:Jason's Deli was founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1976 by Joe Tortorice Jr. and his partners Rusty Coco, Pete Verde and Pat Broussard....
  
   
• Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza is a fast casual sandwich and pizza restaurant chain in the Washington, DC area and currently has over 140 locations. Jerry's was founded in 1954 in Wheaton, Maryland and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's is a franchised sandwich restaurant founded by Jimmy John Liautaud in 1983 and headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. The franchise has over 1000 locations in 39 states and has opened approximately 200 units per year for the last three years...
  
   
• Jim's Restaurants 
• Joe's Crab Shack
  Joe's Crab Shack
  Joe's Crab Shack is an American chain of beach-themed seafood casual dining restaurants owned by Ignite Restaurant Group. Founded in Houston, Texas, the restaurant now operates locations all across the country. It serves seafood and American cuisine. The restaurants also have a gift shop that sells...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
  L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
  L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, or simply L&L and known as L&L Drive-Inn in Hawaii, is a theme franchise restaurant chain based in Honolulu, Hawaii centered on the Hawaiian plate lunch .- History :...
  
  
• Landry's Restaurants
  Landry's Restaurants
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• Ledo Pizza
  Ledo Pizza
  Ledo Pizza is a pizzeria restaurant chain in the Southeastern United States, with the heaviest concentration in Maryland and Virginia. Their first pizzeria was opened in Adelphi, Maryland, in 1955 on University Boulevard in Adelphi Shopping Center near the University of Maryland, College Park...
  
  
• Lee Roy Selmon's
  Lee Roy Selmon's
  Lee Roy Selmon's is an American sports bar restaurant chain located in Florida founded by former NFL player Lee Roy Selmon. Selmon was the first member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to be voted into the NFL hall of fame, and his popularity in the Tampa Bay metro area allowed this restaurant concept...
  
  
• Little Caesars
  Little Caesars
  Little Caesars is a pizza chain, estimated to be the 4th largest in the United States. The Little Caesars headquarters is located in the Fox Theatre building in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.-History:...
  
  
• Logan's Roadhouse
  Logan's Roadhouse
  Logan's Roadhouse is a chain of restaurants that was founded in 1991 in Lexington, Kentucky, and in 1999 became a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly held CBRL Group, Inc...
  
  
• Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
  Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
  Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon is a casual dining restaurant chain, serving steak, seafood, salad, and similar food items. Lone Star opened its first restaurant in 1987 in Tampa,Florida. In March 1992, Lone Star became a public company with eight restaurants opened. On February 18, 2008, Lone Star...
  
   
• LongHorn Steakhouse
  LongHorn Steakhouse
  LongHorn Steakhouse is a restaurant chain, with locations throughout the Eastern United States and in Puerto Rico. Most of its restaurants are in the Southern United States. It also has a few locations in the Midwest, Southwest, and Puerto Rico...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Luby's
  Luby's
  As of March 2011, Luby's, Inc. operates restaurants under the brands Luby's, Fuddruckers and...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Northern Ireland founded in Chicago's River North neighborhood in 1991 by Richard Melman's Lettuce Entertain You and named for Melman's late partner,...
  
   
• Marie Callender's
  Marie Callender's
  Marie Callender’s is a restaurant chain with 74 locations in seven western states. One East Side Mario’s restaurant also is part of the chain, a remnant of the period when the chain owned the ESM concept, purchased from Pepsico....
  
  
• Max & Erma's
  Max & Erma's
  Max & Erma's is a casual dining restaurant chain based in Columbus, Ohio. It operates throughout parts of the Eastern and Midwestern United States, and was founded in 1972 by Todd Barnum and Barry Zacks. The two businessmen purchased a local tavern in Columbus's German Village which had been...
  
   
• McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli is a chain of fast casual restaurants founded in 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi by retired dentist Dr. Don Newcomb. There are currently over 300 locations in 23 states, ranging from Virginia in the East to Florida in the South to New Mexico in West to Indiana in the Midwest...
  
   
• 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...
  
   
• The Melting Pot
  The Melting Pot (restaurant)
  The Melting Pot is a chain of franchised fondue restaurants located across the United States. There were 142 locations as of August 2009, with 28 more locations under development...
  
   
• Mazzio's Italian Eatery
  Mazzio's
  Mazzio's Corporation is the parent company of Mazzio's Italian Eatery and the former parent company of Zio's Italian Kitchen. In November 2007 Zio's Italian Kitchen was sold to a private company....
  
  
• Miller's Ale House
  Miller's Ale House
  Miller's Ale House is a Florida-based restaurant chain which serves steaks, chicken, burgers, salads, seafood, and similar items. Though most of their locations are located in Florida, there are a small number of facilities now open in Georgia, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Mitchell's Fish Market 
• 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...
  
   
• Montana Mike's
  Montana Mike's
  Montana Mike's is a full-service steakhouse that is part of the Stockade Companies.Montana Mike's has twenty-three locations in seven states, featuring steak, grilled chicken, baby-back ribs, and catfish. Their slogan of "Welcome to 'Big Steak Country' " shows the emphasis on steak.-External...
  
  
• 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. Fields
  Mrs. Fields
  Mrs. Fields Famous Brands is a franchisor in the snack food industry, with Mrs. Fields and TCBY as its core brands. Through its franchisees’ retail stores, it is one of the largest retailers of freshly baked, on-premises specialty cookies and brownies in the US and the largest retailer of...
  
  
• Naugles
  Naugles
  Naugles was a Southern California fast-food Mexican restaurant chain that existed from 1970 to 1988. It was founded by former Del Taco employee Dick Naugle. The first Naugles restaurant was located at the southwest corner of Fourteenth St. and Brockton Ave. in Riverside, California...
  
  
• Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company is a chain of fast casual restaurants located in parts of the United States specializing in proprietary and regionally popular pasta bowls inspired from worldwide cuisine all made-to-order.The company is privately held, with Catterton Partners...
  
   
• O'Charley's
  O'Charley's
  O'Charley's is a casual dining restaurants chain in the United States, with more than 240 company-owned locations. O'Charley's is located in 17 Southern and Midwestern states, including four franchised O'Charley's restaurants in Michigan, one franchised O'Charley's in Ohio, three joint venture...
  
   
• Old Country Buffet 
• Olive Garden
  Olive Garden
  Olive Garden is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American cuisine. It is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is headquartered in an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, near Orlando. Olive Garden operates more than 730 locations globally.- History :The...
  
   
• On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina is a chain of Texmex food casual dining restaurants located in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and recently opened in Egypt, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea...
  
   
• Outback Steakhouse
  Outback Steakhouse
  Outback Steakhouse is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 1200 locations in 22 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in February 1988 in Tampa by Bob Basham, Chris T...
  
  
• The Old Spaghetti Factory
  The Old Spaghetti Factory
  The Old Spaghetti Factory is an Italian-style restaurant currently operating in 40 locations in several U.S. states, primarily Oregon, Washington, California and Utah as well as Nagoya in Japan,[3] and previously in Kobe and Kawagoe, Saitama .There are also Old Spaghetti Factories in Canada There...
  
   
• The Original Italian Pie
  The Original Italian Pie
  The Original Italian Pie is a chain of informal Italian-American restaurants. It was founded in 1992 by Musa Ulusan and his wife Fatima. Their first restaurant was located on Bienville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana...
  
  
• The Original Pancake House
  The Original Pancake House
  The Original Pancake House is a chain of pancake houses across the United States. It follows traditional recipes and ingredients for their pancakes, but they have other breakfast items on their menu as well.-History:...
  
   
• Panera Bread
  Panera Bread
  Panera Bread is a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada that sells breads, sandwiches, soups, salads, and other bakery items. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.-Corporate history:In 1993, Au Bon Pain Co...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Papa Gino's
  Papa Gino's
  Papa Gino's is a restaurant chain based in Dedham, Massachusetts specializing in American-style pizza along with pasta, subs, salads, and a variety of appetizers...
  
   
• Papa John's Pizza
  Papa John's Pizza
  Papa John's Pizza is the third largest take-out and delivery pizza restaurant chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. It is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Papa John's slogan is "Better Ingredients. Better pizza. Papa John's"...
  
  

• Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake pizza
  Papa Murphy's
  Papa Murphy's, a business based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, is a take-and-bake pizza company.-History:The chain of take and bake pizzerias traces its history back to 1981, when the Papa Aldo's Pizza chain was begun in Hillsboro, Oregon. Three years later Murphy's Pizza chain began in...
  
  
• Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner is a restaurant chain in the United States. Owned by P. F. Chang's China Bistro , it offers a modest selection of freshly prepared Asian items influenced by the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand...
  
  
• Penn Station (restaurant)
  Penn Station (restaurant)
  Penn Station is a chain of East Coast sub restaurants found throughout the South and Midwest United States. The first restaurant was opened in 1985 by Jeff Osterfeld in Cincinnati, Ohio...
  
  
• Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
  Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
  Perkins Restaurant and Bakery is a North American casual dining restaurant chain which serves breakfast throughout the day, including pancakes. Perkins also has a bakery that sells pastries that are baked fresh daily.- History :...
  
   
• P. F. Chang's China Bistro
  P. F. Chang's China Bistro
  'P. F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. is an American restaurant chain with headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.The chain was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993 by Paul Fleming and Philip Chiang. The restaurants serve American Chinese cuisine from a menu originally conceived and planned by chef...
  
   
• 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....
  
  
• Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn is a restaurant chain and international food franchise, specializing in American-style pizza. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas....
  
   
• Pizza Ranch
  Pizza Ranch
  The Pizza Ranch, Inc., founded in 1981, is a "fast casual" restaurant chain. Pizza Ranch offers pizza, chicken, a salad bar, and a pizza and chicken buffet. Pizza Ranch has over 145 locations in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Kansas...
  
  
• Planet Hollywood
  Planet Hollywood
  Planet Hollywood, a restaurant inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood, was launched in New York on October 22, 1991, with the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.-History:...
  
  
• Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse
• 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...
  
  
• Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works is a privately held restaurant chain that sells submarine sandwiches in the United States. Its name is derived from potbelly stoves common in the late 19th century. The company is headquartered in the tower of the Merchandise Mart in the Near North Side, Chicago,...
  
  
• Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill , is a chain of fast casual "Fresh Mex" restaurants in the United States serving Mexican-style cuisine. The company is owned by Jack in the Box, having been owned and expanded by ACI Capital until 2003....
  
  
• Quaker Steak & Lube
  Quaker Steak & Lube
  Quaker Steak & Lube is a casual dining restaurant chain based in Sharon, Pennsylvania. The original restaurant was built in 1974 by George "Jig" Warren and Gary "Mo" Meszaros in an abandoned gas station in downtown Sharon, and decorated with license plates and old automobiles...
  
   
• Quiznos 
• RA Sushi 
• Rainforest Cafe
  Rainforest Cafe
  Rainforest Cafe is a themed restaurant chain owned by Landry's Restaurants, Inc. of Houston, Texas. It was founded by entrepreneur Steven Schussler. The first location opened in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on February 3, 1994. In 1997, the chain consisted of only six restaurants,...
  
  
• Rally's
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rax
• Red Hot & Blue
  Red Hot & Blue (restaurant)
  Red Hot & Blue is a Memphis style barbecue restaurant franchise founded by the late Lee Atwater and former House of Representatives member Don Sundquist of Memphis, Tennessee, among others.-History:...
  
  
• Red Lobster
  Red Lobster
  Red Lobster is a U.S. chain of seafood restaurants. It also operates in Canada, the UAE and Japan . It is aimed at the mid-level "casual dining" segment of the market...
  
  
• Red Robin
  Red Robin
  Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is a chain of casual dining restaurants founded in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, and now headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.-History:...
  
  
• Redstone American Grill
  Redstone American Grill
  Redstone American Grill is a restaurant chain with locations in several the U.S. states. The company is positioned between upscale restaurants and more casual chains such as T.G.I. Fridays...
  
  
• Robeks
  Robeks
  Robeks is a smoothie franchise chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California....
  
  
• Rock Bottom 
• Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The first restaurant was founded by Texas restaurateur Philip J. Romano in Leon Springs, Texas, on April 19, 1988. Brinker International bought the...
  
   
• Round Table Pizza
  Round Table Pizza
  Round Table Pizza is a large chain of pizza parlors in the western United States. The company's headquarters are located in Concord, California.The company slogan for many years has been "The Last Honest Pizza".- History :...
  
   
• Roy Rogers Restaurants 
• Roy's
  Roy's
  Roy's is a restaurant chain specializing in Hawaiian fusion and Asian fusion cuisine, with a focus on seafood. Roy's is headquartered in Tampa, Florida....
  
   
• Ruby Tuesday
  Ruby Tuesday (restaurant)
  Ruby Tuesday is an American casual dining restaurant chain named after the Rolling Stones' song of the same name.- History :The first restaurant was founded in 1972 by five University of Tennessee students, and is now headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee. The first location was adjacent to UT's...
  
   
• Ruth's Chris Steak House
  Ruth's Chris Steak House
  Ruth's Chris Steak House is a chain of more than 121 steakhouses across the United States and in several international locations. The restaurant is regarded as an upscale fine dining establishment, marking a gradual elevation in its status since its founding in the 1960s...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sbarro
  Sbarro
  Sbarro is a bankrupt chain of pizza restaurants that specializes in traditional Italian cuisine, including its most popular menu item "pizza by the slice." Its headquarters is located in Melville, Huntington, New York.- History :...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• Seasons 52
  Seasons 52
  Seasons 52 is a restaurant chain owned by the Darden Restaurants, which also owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, and Bahama Breeze. The restaurant has four menus that are used throughout the year, one for each of the four seasons. Their menu also varies...
  
  
• Seattle's Best Coffee
  Seattle's Best Coffee
  Seattle's Best Coffee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starbucks, is a specialty coffee retailer and wholesaler based in Seattle, Washington.Seattle's Best Coffee has retail stores and grocery sub-stores in 20 states and provinces and the District of Columbia. Sub-stores can also be found within many...
  
  
• Shane's Rib Shack
  Shane's Rib Shack
  Shane's Rib Shack is an American fast casual BBQ franchise, serving slow-cooked baby back ribs, hand-chopped chicken and pork, and Southern style side dishes.-Founders:...
  
  
• Shoney's
  Shoney's
  Shoney’s is a privately held restaurant chain that operates primarily in the Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It is named after Alex Schoenbaum, who was the owner of the original chain of Big Boy restaurants in the southeastern United States...
  
   
• Sizzler
  Sizzler
  Sizzler is a United States-based restaurant chain with headquarters in Culver City, California. The chain serves steak, seafood, and salad , as well as similar items.-History:...
  
   
• Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili is a chain of chili restaurants based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1949 by Greek immigrant Nicholas Lambrinides, Skyline Chili is named for the view of Cincinnati's skyline that Lambrinides could see from his first restaurant , opened in the section of town now known as Price Hill...
  
  
• Smokey Bones
  Smokey Bones Barbeque and Grill
  Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill is a chain of casual dining restaurants. An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Smokey Bones is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, United States. The first Smokey Bones restaurant opened in Orlando, Florida, in 1999 under its then owners, Darden Restaurants...
  
   
• 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...
  
   
• Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes
  Souplantation
  Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes are the two names given the same buffet style chain of United States restaurants. The first Souplantation opened in San Diego in 1978, and the company was incorporated as Garden Fresh Corp., in 1983...
  
  

Nationwide/regional

• 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...
  
   
• Applebee's
  Applebee's
  Applebee’s International, Inc., is an American company which develops, franchises, and operates the Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurant chain. As of September 2011, there were 2,010 restaurants operating system-wide in the United States, one U.S. territory and 14 other countries...
  
  
• 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,...
  
   
• Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company is a bakery café chain that was originally established in 1993 in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Georgia. In 1995, the company began franchising and expanding across the country. As of late 2008, the company has 110 locations in 24 states...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Bahama Breeze
  Bahama Breeze
  Bahama Breeze is an American restaurant specializing in Caribbean-inspired fresh seafood, chicken and steaks, and tropical drinks. Most locations are in suburban retail districts and tourist areas.-Locations:*Florida**Fort Lauderdale Sunrise...
  
   
• Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh is a chain of fast-casual Tex Mex restaurants founded in Newbury Park, California in 1990 and headquartered in Cypress, California. The chain emphasizes fresh ingredients, and each restaurant features a self-serve salsa bar....
  
   
• Bakers Square
  Bakers Square
  Bakers Square Restaurant & Pies is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States. Known for its pies, Bakers Square also offers full breakfast, lunch and dinner menus . It is owned by American Blue Ribbon Holdings...
  
  
• Benihana
  Benihana
  Benihana can refer to:*Benihana, Benihana's Hibachi Restaurant*Benihana * Benihana, the Japanese word for safflower...
  
  
• Bennigan's
  Bennigan's
  Bennigan's is an Irish pub-themed casual dining restaurant chain with locations throughout the United States, and in 14 countries and 15 territories outside the continental U.S...
  
  
• Bertucci's
  Bertucci's
  Bertucci's is a Northborough, Massachusetts-based private company which runs a chain of sit-down Italian restaurants offering brick oven pizza and Italian food. It also offers delivery , take-out and private dining....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Black Angus Steakhouse
  Black Angus Steakhouse
  Black Angus Steak and Seafood Restaurant was founded in 1964 by Stuart Anderson of Seattle, Washington. The restaurant chain is based in Los Altos, CA. -History:...
  
  
• Black-eyed Pea
• 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...
  
  
• Bob Evans Restaurants
  Bob Evans Restaurants
  Bob Evans Farms, Inc. is a food service, processing, and retail company based in Columbus, Ohio. The company is named after its founder, Bob Evans . It operates two family dining restaurant chains in the United States, Bob Evans Restaurants and Mimi's Cafe...
  
  
• Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits 
• Bonefish Grill
  Bonefish Grill
  Bonefish Grill is a seafood restaurant chain founded on January 15, 2000 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Tim Curci and Chris Parker. It is owned and operated by OSI Restaurant Partners headquartered in Tampa, Florida....
  
   
• Boston Market
  Boston Market
  Boston Market, known as Boston Chicken until 1995, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast casual restaurants. It is owned by private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.-History:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
  Bubba Gump Shrimp Company
  The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant and Market is a seafood restaurant chain inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. As of September 2010, thirty-two Bubba Gump restaurants operate worldwide. Twenty-two of these locations are in the United States, three are in Japan, two are located in Mexico,...
  
  
• Buca di Beppo
  Buca di Beppo
  Buca di Beppo is a restaurant specializing in immigrant Southern Italian food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's Basement"...
  
  
• Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar is a casual dining restaurant and sports bar franchise in the United States that is known for its Buffalo wings.-History:...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• California Pizza Kitchen
  California Pizza Kitchen
  California Pizza Kitchen , known within the food industry as CPK, is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza...
  
  
• California Tortilla
  California Tortilla
  California Tortilla is a chain of franchised fast casual Mexican restaurants, the first of which was opened in 1995 in Bethesda, Maryland by business partners Pam Felix and Alan Cohen. The chain's menu, which features burritos, is comparable to that of its competitors, such as Baja Fresh and...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• The Capital Grille
  The Capital Grille
  The Capital Grille is a national chain of upscale steakhouses; it currently has locations in twenty states and the District of Columbia. It is owned by Darden Restaurants, based in Orlando, Florida, a multi-brand restaurant operator that owns other restaurant brands such as Olive Garden and Red...
  
  
• Carino's Italian Grill
  Carino's Italian Grill
  Carino's Italian is a United States-based chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants. It has more than 170 restaurants with branches in about 30 states...
  
   
• 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,...
  
  
• Carrabba's Italian Grill
  Carrabba's Italian Grill
  Carrabba's Italian Grill is a chain of over 200 Italian restaurants in 27 U.S. states. Its headquarters are located in Tampa, Florida.-History:...
  
  
• Carrows
  Carrows
  Carrows is a chain of casual dining restaurants that serve breakfast and lunch/dinner in the western portion of the United States. As of August 16, 2008, the chain operates 89 restaurants in California and 2 in Nevada....
  
  
• Champps Americana
  Champps
  Champps Americana is an American casual dining restaurant chain and sports bar. There are over 60 locations across the United States, with most of them on the East Coast and Midwest.-History:...
  
  
• Charlie Brown's Steakhouse
  Charlie Brown's Steakhouse
  Charlie Brown's Steakhouse is a regional American casual dining restaurant chain based in Mountainside, New Jersey. There are locations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.-History:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Cheeseburger in Paradise 
• Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. is a restaurant company in the United States. The company operates 165 upscale, casual, full-service dining restaurants: 151 under The Cheesecake Factory mark, 13 under the Grand Lux Cafe mark and one under the RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen mark...
  
  
• Cheddar's Casual Café
• Chevys Fresh Mex
  Chevys Fresh Mex
  Chevys Fresh Mex is a chain of Mexican-style casual dining restaurants located in the United States. The chain was founded in 1981 by Warren Simmon, Sr. and Warren "Scooter" Simmon, Jr. in Alameda, California. The chain's headquarters are currently located in Cypress, California. The chain is owned...
  
  
• Chi-Chi's
  Chi-Chi's
  Chi-Chi's was a popular Mexican restaurant chain from 1975 to 2004. It ceased to exist within the United States following a 2003 Hepatitis A outbreak that began at one of its locations in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Chi-Chi's is still in operation in Belgium, Luxembourg, United Arab...
  
  
• Chicken Express
  Chicken Express
  Chicken Express is a small, regional chain of fast food restaurants concentrated in the Southern United States.-History:Chicken Express was established in 1988 by Stuart Group Inc...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Chili's
  Chili's
  Chili's Grill & Bar is a restaurant chain founded by Larry Lavine. The chain has more than 1400 casual dining restaurants, mostly located in the United States and Canada...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Chronic Tacos
  Chronic Tacos
  Chronic Tacos is an American restaurant chain based in San Clemente, California, specializing in Mexican-style food. It uses a third-generation recipe for its tacos and because of the assembly line nature of the preparation process, it has been referred to as a "Mexican Subway".-History:Chronic...
  
   
• Chuck-A-Rama
  Chuck-A-Rama
  Chuck-A-Rama is a chain of buffet restaurants based in Salt Lake City, Utah with eight restaurants in Utah and two in Idaho. Many of the items are what one would consider "home cooking" types of recipes rather than fine dining offerings...
  
  
• Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's
  Chuck E. Cheese's is a chain of family entertainment centers. Chuck E...
  
  
• Church's
  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...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Claim Jumper
  Claim Jumper
  Claim Jumper is a restaurant chain headquartered in Irvine, California with 45 locations in Arizona, California, Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin and Oregon. Founder Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper Restaurant in Los Alamitos, California in 1977...
  
  
• Coco's Bakery
  Coco's Bakery
  Coco's Bakery Restaurant is a chain of casual dining restaurants operating in the Western portion of the United States.-Locations:, the chain operates over 115 restaurants in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.-History:...
  
  
• Copeland's
  Copeland's
  Copeland's is a restaurant chain started by New Orleans native Al Copeland in 1983. It offers New Orleans-style cuisine and a casual sit-down family friendly atmosphere. Significantly expanding in 1990s, it claimed more than 40 locations in 12 states and offered a "steakhouse"-style expanded menu...
  
  
• Country Buffet
• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
• 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...
  
  
• Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill & Sports Bar was founded in 1979 by Irv Rossman, Jerry Rossman, Sam Massara, Joe Mazzola, and Joe Nader and is currently headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Restaurants are usually sectioned into two separate parts: The dining room, and the clubhouse with bar...
  
  
• Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's
  Dave & Buster's is an American restaurant and entertainment business headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Each D&B has a full-service restaurant and a video arcade. As of July 1, 2009, the company had 57 locations across the United States and two in Canada. The company also licenses the D&B concept...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Dixie Chili and Deli
  Dixie Chili and Deli
  Dixie Chili and Deli, originally Dixie Chili, is a chain of three Cincinnati chili restaurants located in the state of Kentucky. Greek immigrant Nicholas Sarakatsannis founded the first location in 1929 in Newport, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from the city of Cincinnati...
  
  
• Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza
  Domino's Pizza, Inc. is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. Founded in 1960, Domino's is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States and has over 9,000 corporate and franchised stores in 60 countries and all 50 U.S....
  
  
• Don Pablo's
  Don Pablo's
  Don Pablo’s is a chain of Tex-Mex restaurants founded in Lubbock, Texas, in 1985. The chain has 45 restaurants in 15 states. The menu features Tex-Mex items, made-from-scratch salsa, tortillas and sauces and a range of other Mexican specialties. Don Pablo’s is a subsidiary of Avado Brands of...
  
   
• Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza is a pizza delivery restaurant chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It has nearly 200 locations in six states, with the majority of locations in Ohio...
  
   
• East of Chicago Pizza
  East of Chicago Pizza
  East of Chicago Pizza is a restaurant chain based in Willard, Ohio offering different styles of pizza along with side dishes including buffalo wings, breadsticks, and subs. They have approximately 120 restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, Vienna, WV, and Myrtle Beach, SC. The first restaurant was opened in...
  
   
• EatZi's
  EatZi's
  EatZi's is a chain of bakery, gourmet takeout markets, and restaurants, created by Philip J. Romano. It was based in Dallas, Texas, and proposes high end products. Two locations in Dallas remain open...
  
   
• Eat'n Park
  Eat'n Park
  Eat'n Park is a restaurant chain based in Homestead, Pennsylvania with over 75 locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The chain is known for its Smiley Cookies.-History:...
  
  
• El Chico 
• 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...
  
  
• Elephant Bar
  Elephant Bar
  The Elephant Bar is a restaurant chain in the United States. The corporate office is located in La Mirada, California. As of July 2009, the chain comprises 47 restaurants throughout ten states with the majority in California. Elephant Bar Restaurants are also located in Arizona, California,...
  
   
• Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que, formerly Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que Shack, is a chain of southern-style barbecue restaurants serving pork ribs, chicken, and beef brisket. Dave Anderson, an Ojibwe who served as the head of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2004 to 2005, started the...
  
  

• Farmer Boys
  Farmer Boys
  Farmer Boys is a quick service restaurant chain in the Southern California area. It is based in Riverside, California.Farmer Boys describes itself as a quick service restaurant serving freshly prepared foods with casual dining style service, combined with drive-through service...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• FATZ
  FATZ
  FATZ is a casual dining restaurant chain operated by Cafe Enterprises, Inc. which is headquartered in Taylors, South Carolina. It is a regional restaurant chain with locations in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Unlike most chain restaurants, FATZ does not franchise...
  
  
• Fazoli's
  Fazoli's
  The Fazoli’s brand was created in 1988 by Jerrico, Inc, a multi-brand restaurant group based in Lexington, Kentucky, and then parent company of Long John Silver’s restaurants. Two years and five founding restaurants later, the Italian fast food concept was sold to Seed Restaurant Group, Inc. , also...
  
  
• Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries
  Five Guys
  Five Guys is a fast casual restaurant chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and French fries. Originating in Arlington, Virginia, the company's headquarters are now in Lorton, Virginia.-Food:...
  
  
• Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
• Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito, Freebirds for short, is a regional chain of fast casual burrito restaurants. Founded in 1987 in Isla Vista, California by Mark Orfalea and Pierre Dube, the restaurant chain expanded into Texas in 1990...
  
  
• Fresh Choice
  Fresh Choice
  Fresh Choice is a chain of buffet-style restaurants which operate in California, Washington, and Texas under the names Fresh Choice, Fresh Plus, Fresh Choice Express, and Zoopa. The first restaurant was opened in Sunnyvale, California in 1986, and as of 2010 there are 30 locations with two new...
  
   
• Friendly's
  Friendly's
  Friendly Ice Cream Corporation is the owner and operator of the Friendly's restaurant chain on the United States' East Coast. Founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by brothers Curtis Blake and S. Prestley Blake, 20, their first shop served double-dip cones for 5 cents...
  
  
• Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised, restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. In 2011 Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatchewan, Canada and four in Puerto Rico...
  
   
• Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti
  Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti
  Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti is a restaurant chain with 40 locations, most of them within the US state of West Virginia. Many locations are shared with Tudor's Biscuit World. Gino's serves pizza, spaghetti, sandwiches, and more. Company headquarters are located in Huntington, WV.The original...
  
  
• Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza
  Godfather's Pizza is a privately owned restaurant chain headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska that operates fast casual Italian franchises. -History:...
  
   
• Golden Corral
  Golden Corral
  Golden Corral is an American family-style restaurant chain that features a large buffet and grill offering numerous hot and cold items, a carving station and their Brass Bell Bakery...
  
   
• 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....
  
  
• Ground Round
  Ground Round
  Ground Round Grill & Bar, an American casual dining restaurant, was founded in 1969 by Howard Johnson's. As of January 17, 2010 Ground Round is owned by Independent Owners Cooperative, LLC, a group of 30 franchisee owners. Independent Owners Cooperative, LLC is located in Freeport, Maine...
  
   
• Hard Rock Cafe
  Hard Rock Cafe
  Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock and roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hobee's Restaurant
  Hobee's Restaurant
  Hobee's is a chain of sit-down restaurants in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in Northern California. Paul Taber, the founder, bought the Dairy Belle in Mountain View, California, and opened the first Hobee's restaurant in 1974...
  
  
• Hooters
  Hooters
  Hooters is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida...
  
   
• Houlihan's
  Houlihan's
  Houlihan's is a Leawood, Kansas-based American contemporary restaurant chain. The first Houlihan's opened on April 1, 1972 on Kansas City's Country Club Plaza, and is now in 21 states...
  
   
• Houston's Restaurant
  Houston's Restaurant
  Houston's Restaurant is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Beverly Hills, California with restauants in 12 states, as well as in the District of Columbia.-Company profile:...
  
  
• Howard Johnson's
  Howard Johnson's
  Howard Johnson's is a chain of hotels and restaurants, located primarily throughout the United States and Canada. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Howard Johnson's was the largest restaurant chain in the United States, with over 1,000 restaurants...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• HuHot Mongolian Grill
  HuHot Mongolian Grill
  HuHot Mongolian Grill is an American restaurant chain specializing in a pan-Asian create-your-own stir fry cuisine. Based in Missoula, Montana, there are currently 39 HuHot Mongolian Grills in 14 states, the vast majority located in the Midwest and the Mountain West states.-HuHot Mongolian Grill...
  
   
• Hungry Howie's Pizza
  Hungry Howie's Pizza
  Hungry Howie's is the 11th largest pizza chain in the United States, with 575 locations. Their products include pizza, calzone style subs, chicken wings and tenders, bread, and salads. It is noted for introducing the concept of a flavored pizza crust first offered at its Ypsilanti, Michigan,...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli is a fast casual deli restaurant chain headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, United States.-History:Jason's Deli was founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1976 by Joe Tortorice Jr. and his partners Rusty Coco, Pete Verde and Pat Broussard....
  
   
• Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza is a fast casual sandwich and pizza restaurant chain in the Washington, DC area and currently has over 140 locations. Jerry's was founded in 1954 in Wheaton, Maryland and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's is a franchised sandwich restaurant founded by Jimmy John Liautaud in 1983 and headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. The franchise has over 1000 locations in 39 states and has opened approximately 200 units per year for the last three years...
  
   
• Jim's Restaurants 
• Joe's Crab Shack
  Joe's Crab Shack
  Joe's Crab Shack is an American chain of beach-themed seafood casual dining restaurants owned by Ignite Restaurant Group. Founded in Houston, Texas, the restaurant now operates locations all across the country. It serves seafood and American cuisine. The restaurants also have a gift shop that sells...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
  L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
  L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, or simply L&L and known as L&L Drive-Inn in Hawaii, is a theme franchise restaurant chain based in Honolulu, Hawaii centered on the Hawaiian plate lunch .- History :...
  
  
• Landry's Restaurants
  Landry's Restaurants
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• Ledo Pizza
  Ledo Pizza
  Ledo Pizza is a pizzeria restaurant chain in the Southeastern United States, with the heaviest concentration in Maryland and Virginia. Their first pizzeria was opened in Adelphi, Maryland, in 1955 on University Boulevard in Adelphi Shopping Center near the University of Maryland, College Park...
  
  
• Lee Roy Selmon's
  Lee Roy Selmon's
  Lee Roy Selmon's is an American sports bar restaurant chain located in Florida founded by former NFL player Lee Roy Selmon. Selmon was the first member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to be voted into the NFL hall of fame, and his popularity in the Tampa Bay metro area allowed this restaurant concept...
  
  
• Little Caesars
  Little Caesars
  Little Caesars is a pizza chain, estimated to be the 4th largest in the United States. The Little Caesars headquarters is located in the Fox Theatre building in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.-History:...
  
  
• Logan's Roadhouse
  Logan's Roadhouse
  Logan's Roadhouse is a chain of restaurants that was founded in 1991 in Lexington, Kentucky, and in 1999 became a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly held CBRL Group, Inc...
  
  
• Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
  Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon
  Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon is a casual dining restaurant chain, serving steak, seafood, salad, and similar food items. Lone Star opened its first restaurant in 1987 in Tampa,Florida. In March 1992, Lone Star became a public company with eight restaurants opened. On February 18, 2008, Lone Star...
  
   
• LongHorn Steakhouse
  LongHorn Steakhouse
  LongHorn Steakhouse is a restaurant chain, with locations throughout the Eastern United States and in Puerto Rico. Most of its restaurants are in the Southern United States. It also has a few locations in the Midwest, Southwest, and Puerto Rico...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Luby's
  Luby's
  As of March 2011, Luby's, Inc. operates restaurants under the brands Luby's, Fuddruckers and...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy
  Maggiano's Little Italy is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Northern Ireland founded in Chicago's River North neighborhood in 1991 by Richard Melman's Lettuce Entertain You and named for Melman's late partner,...
  
   
• Marie Callender's
  Marie Callender's
  Marie Callender’s is a restaurant chain with 74 locations in seven western states. One East Side Mario’s restaurant also is part of the chain, a remnant of the period when the chain owned the ESM concept, purchased from Pepsico....
  
  
• Max & Erma's
  Max & Erma's
  Max & Erma's is a casual dining restaurant chain based in Columbus, Ohio. It operates throughout parts of the Eastern and Midwestern United States, and was founded in 1972 by Todd Barnum and Barry Zacks. The two businessmen purchased a local tavern in Columbus's German Village which had been...
  
   
• McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli is a chain of fast casual restaurants founded in 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi by retired dentist Dr. Don Newcomb. There are currently over 300 locations in 23 states, ranging from Virginia in the East to Florida in the South to New Mexico in West to Indiana in the Midwest...
  
   
• 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...
  
   
• The Melting Pot
  The Melting Pot (restaurant)
  The Melting Pot is a chain of franchised fondue restaurants located across the United States. There were 142 locations as of August 2009, with 28 more locations under development...
  
   
• Mazzio's Italian Eatery
  Mazzio's
  Mazzio's Corporation is the parent company of Mazzio's Italian Eatery and the former parent company of Zio's Italian Kitchen. In November 2007 Zio's Italian Kitchen was sold to a private company....
  
  
• Miller's Ale House
  Miller's Ale House
  Miller's Ale House is a Florida-based restaurant chain which serves steaks, chicken, burgers, salads, seafood, and similar items. Though most of their locations are located in Florida, there are a small number of facilities now open in Georgia, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Mitchell's Fish Market 
• 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...
  
   
• Montana Mike's
  Montana Mike's
  Montana Mike's is a full-service steakhouse that is part of the Stockade Companies.Montana Mike's has twenty-three locations in seven states, featuring steak, grilled chicken, baby-back ribs, and catfish. Their slogan of "Welcome to 'Big Steak Country' " shows the emphasis on steak.-External...
  
  
• 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. Fields
  Mrs. Fields
  Mrs. Fields Famous Brands is a franchisor in the snack food industry, with Mrs. Fields and TCBY as its core brands. Through its franchisees’ retail stores, it is one of the largest retailers of freshly baked, on-premises specialty cookies and brownies in the US and the largest retailer of...
  
  
• Naugles
  Naugles
  Naugles was a Southern California fast-food Mexican restaurant chain that existed from 1970 to 1988. It was founded by former Del Taco employee Dick Naugle. The first Naugles restaurant was located at the southwest corner of Fourteenth St. and Brockton Ave. in Riverside, California...
  
  
• Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company is a chain of fast casual restaurants located in parts of the United States specializing in proprietary and regionally popular pasta bowls inspired from worldwide cuisine all made-to-order.The company is privately held, with Catterton Partners...
  
   
• O'Charley's
  O'Charley's
  O'Charley's is a casual dining restaurants chain in the United States, with more than 240 company-owned locations. O'Charley's is located in 17 Southern and Midwestern states, including four franchised O'Charley's restaurants in Michigan, one franchised O'Charley's in Ohio, three joint venture...
  
   
• Old Country Buffet 
• Olive Garden
  Olive Garden
  Olive Garden is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American cuisine. It is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is headquartered in an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, near Orlando. Olive Garden operates more than 730 locations globally.- History :The...
  
   
• On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina
  On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina is a chain of Texmex food casual dining restaurants located in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and recently opened in Egypt, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea...
  
   
• Outback Steakhouse
  Outback Steakhouse
  Outback Steakhouse is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 1200 locations in 22 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in February 1988 in Tampa by Bob Basham, Chris T...
  
  
• The Old Spaghetti Factory
  The Old Spaghetti Factory
  The Old Spaghetti Factory is an Italian-style restaurant currently operating in 40 locations in several U.S. states, primarily Oregon, Washington, California and Utah as well as Nagoya in Japan,[3] and previously in Kobe and Kawagoe, Saitama .There are also Old Spaghetti Factories in Canada There...
  
   
• The Original Italian Pie
  The Original Italian Pie
  The Original Italian Pie is a chain of informal Italian-American restaurants. It was founded in 1992 by Musa Ulusan and his wife Fatima. Their first restaurant was located on Bienville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana...
  
  
• The Original Pancake House
  The Original Pancake House
  The Original Pancake House is a chain of pancake houses across the United States. It follows traditional recipes and ingredients for their pancakes, but they have other breakfast items on their menu as well.-History:...
  
   
• Panera Bread
  Panera Bread
  Panera Bread is a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada that sells breads, sandwiches, soups, salads, and other bakery items. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.-Corporate history:In 1993, Au Bon Pain Co...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Papa Gino's
  Papa Gino's
  Papa Gino's is a restaurant chain based in Dedham, Massachusetts specializing in American-style pizza along with pasta, subs, salads, and a variety of appetizers...
  
   
• Papa John's Pizza
  Papa John's Pizza
  Papa John's Pizza is the third largest take-out and delivery pizza restaurant chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. It is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Papa John's slogan is "Better Ingredients. Better pizza. Papa John's"...
  
  

• Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake pizza
  Papa Murphy's
  Papa Murphy's, a business based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, is a take-and-bake pizza company.-History:The chain of take and bake pizzerias traces its history back to 1981, when the Papa Aldo's Pizza chain was begun in Hillsboro, Oregon. Three years later Murphy's Pizza chain began in...
  
  
• Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner is a restaurant chain in the United States. Owned by P. F. Chang's China Bistro , it offers a modest selection of freshly prepared Asian items influenced by the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand...
  
  
• Penn Station (restaurant)
  Penn Station (restaurant)
  Penn Station is a chain of East Coast sub restaurants found throughout the South and Midwest United States. The first restaurant was opened in 1985 by Jeff Osterfeld in Cincinnati, Ohio...
  
  
• Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
  Perkins Restaurant and Bakery
  Perkins Restaurant and Bakery is a North American casual dining restaurant chain which serves breakfast throughout the day, including pancakes. Perkins also has a bakery that sells pastries that are baked fresh daily.- History :...
  
   
• P. F. Chang's China Bistro
  P. F. Chang's China Bistro
  'P. F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. is an American restaurant chain with headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.The chain was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1993 by Paul Fleming and Philip Chiang. The restaurants serve American Chinese cuisine from a menu originally conceived and planned by chef...
  
   
• 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....
  
  
• Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn
  Pizza Inn is a restaurant chain and international food franchise, specializing in American-style pizza. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas....
  
   
• Pizza Ranch
  Pizza Ranch
  The Pizza Ranch, Inc., founded in 1981, is a "fast casual" restaurant chain. Pizza Ranch offers pizza, chicken, a salad bar, and a pizza and chicken buffet. Pizza Ranch has over 145 locations in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Kansas...
  
  
• Planet Hollywood
  Planet Hollywood
  Planet Hollywood, a restaurant inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood, was launched in New York on October 22, 1991, with the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.-History:...
  
  
• Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse
• 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...
  
  
• Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works is a privately held restaurant chain that sells submarine sandwiches in the United States. Its name is derived from potbelly stoves common in the late 19th century. The company is headquartered in the tower of the Merchandise Mart in the Near North Side, Chicago,...
  
  
• Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill , is a chain of fast casual "Fresh Mex" restaurants in the United States serving Mexican-style cuisine. The company is owned by Jack in the Box, having been owned and expanded by ACI Capital until 2003....
  
  
• Quaker Steak & Lube
  Quaker Steak & Lube
  Quaker Steak & Lube is a casual dining restaurant chain based in Sharon, Pennsylvania. The original restaurant was built in 1974 by George "Jig" Warren and Gary "Mo" Meszaros in an abandoned gas station in downtown Sharon, and decorated with license plates and old automobiles...
  
   
• Quiznos 
• RA Sushi 
• Rainforest Cafe
  Rainforest Cafe
  Rainforest Cafe is a themed restaurant chain owned by Landry's Restaurants, Inc. of Houston, Texas. It was founded by entrepreneur Steven Schussler. The first location opened in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on February 3, 1994. In 1997, the chain consisted of only six restaurants,...
  
  
• Rally's
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rax
• Red Hot & Blue
  Red Hot & Blue (restaurant)
  Red Hot & Blue is a Memphis style barbecue restaurant franchise founded by the late Lee Atwater and former House of Representatives member Don Sundquist of Memphis, Tennessee, among others.-History:...
  
  
• Red Lobster
  Red Lobster
  Red Lobster is a U.S. chain of seafood restaurants. It also operates in Canada, the UAE and Japan . It is aimed at the mid-level "casual dining" segment of the market...
  
  
• Red Robin
  Red Robin
  Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is a chain of casual dining restaurants founded in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, and now headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.-History:...
  
  
• Redstone American Grill
  Redstone American Grill
  Redstone American Grill is a restaurant chain with locations in several the U.S. states. The company is positioned between upscale restaurants and more casual chains such as T.G.I. Fridays...
  
  
• Robeks
  Robeks
  Robeks is a smoothie franchise chain headquartered in Los Angeles, California....
  
  
• Rock Bottom 
• Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill
  Romano's Macaroni Grill is an Italian-style chain of casual dining restaurants with locations throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The first restaurant was founded by Texas restaurateur Philip J. Romano in Leon Springs, Texas, on April 19, 1988. Brinker International bought the...
  
   
• Round Table Pizza
  Round Table Pizza
  Round Table Pizza is a large chain of pizza parlors in the western United States. The company's headquarters are located in Concord, California.The company slogan for many years has been "The Last Honest Pizza".- History :...
  
   
• Roy Rogers Restaurants 
• Roy's
  Roy's
  Roy's is a restaurant chain specializing in Hawaiian fusion and Asian fusion cuisine, with a focus on seafood. Roy's is headquartered in Tampa, Florida....
  
   
• Ruby Tuesday
  Ruby Tuesday (restaurant)
  Ruby Tuesday is an American casual dining restaurant chain named after the Rolling Stones' song of the same name.- History :The first restaurant was founded in 1972 by five University of Tennessee students, and is now headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee. The first location was adjacent to UT's...
  
   
• Ruth's Chris Steak House
  Ruth's Chris Steak House
  Ruth's Chris Steak House is a chain of more than 121 steakhouses across the United States and in several international locations. The restaurant is regarded as an upscale fine dining establishment, marking a gradual elevation in its status since its founding in the 1960s...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sbarro
  Sbarro
  Sbarro is a bankrupt chain of pizza restaurants that specializes in traditional Italian cuisine, including its most popular menu item "pizza by the slice." Its headquarters is located in Melville, Huntington, New York.- History :...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• Seasons 52
  Seasons 52
  Seasons 52 is a restaurant chain owned by the Darden Restaurants, which also owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, and Bahama Breeze. The restaurant has four menus that are used throughout the year, one for each of the four seasons. Their menu also varies...
  
  
• Seattle's Best Coffee
  Seattle's Best Coffee
  Seattle's Best Coffee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starbucks, is a specialty coffee retailer and wholesaler based in Seattle, Washington.Seattle's Best Coffee has retail stores and grocery sub-stores in 20 states and provinces and the District of Columbia. Sub-stores can also be found within many...
  
  
• Shane's Rib Shack
  Shane's Rib Shack
  Shane's Rib Shack is an American fast casual BBQ franchise, serving slow-cooked baby back ribs, hand-chopped chicken and pork, and Southern style side dishes.-Founders:...
  
  
• Shoney's
  Shoney's
  Shoney’s is a privately held restaurant chain that operates primarily in the Southeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It is named after Alex Schoenbaum, who was the owner of the original chain of Big Boy restaurants in the southeastern United States...
  
   
• Sizzler
  Sizzler
  Sizzler is a United States-based restaurant chain with headquarters in Culver City, California. The chain serves steak, seafood, and salad , as well as similar items.-History:...
  
   
• Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili is a chain of chili restaurants based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1949 by Greek immigrant Nicholas Lambrinides, Skyline Chili is named for the view of Cincinnati's skyline that Lambrinides could see from his first restaurant , opened in the section of town now known as Price Hill...
  
  
• Smokey Bones
  Smokey Bones Barbeque and Grill
  Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill is a chain of casual dining restaurants. An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Smokey Bones is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, United States. The first Smokey Bones restaurant opened in Orlando, Florida, in 1999 under its then owners, Darden Restaurants...
  
   
• 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...
  
   
• Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes
  Souplantation
  Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes are the two names given the same buffet style chain of United States restaurants. The first Souplantation opened in San Diego in 1978, and the company was incorporated as Garden Fresh Corp., in 1983...
  
   
• Spangles (restaurant)
  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...
  
  
• Starbucks
  Starbucks
  Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
  
  
• Steak 'n Shake 
• Sticky Fingers
  Sticky Fingers (restaurant)
  Sticky Fingers RibHouse is a restaurant chain located in the southeastern United States specializing in Memphis Style Barbecue. It is named after the Rolling Stones album of the same name. Sticky Fingers was started by three high school friends in 1992...
  
  
• Stir Crazy
  Stir Crazy (restaurant)
  Stir Crazy is a restaurant chain based in Chicago, Illinois that specializes in Asian-style stir fry food and other Asian-themed dishes. Stir Crazy features a Market Bar or "build your own stir fry" menu, where the customer creates a custom stir fry dish from about 30 different vegetables, spices,...
  
   
• Sub Station II
  Sub Station II
  Sub Station II is a small sandwich shop chain started in Sumter, South Carolina by three brothers, Don, John and Charlie Ruffalo. Their original unit, The Sub Station, opened in May 1975....
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Sweet Tomatoes 
• Swensen's
  Swensen's
  Swensen's is a global chain of ice cream restaurants that started in San Francisco, California.-History:The company was started in 1948 by Earle Swensen. Swensen opened his first shop at the corner of Union and Hyde Streets, along the cable car tracks in Russian Hill in San Francisco at what had...
  
  
• Swensons
  Swensons
  Swensons Drive-In is a regional fast food restaurant chain with locations throughout Greater Akron, with the first location opening in 1934, in Akron, Ohio. Wesley T. 'Pop' Swenson started selling his hamburgers in 1933, which he sold out of the back of his station wagon at the newly built Buchtel...
  
  
• T.G.I. Friday's
  T.G.I. Friday's
  T.G.I. Friday's is an American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining. The company is a unit of the Carlson Companies. Its name is taken from the expression TGIF...
  
  
• 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 John's
  Taco John's
  Taco John's is a Cheyenne, Wyoming-based fast-food restaurant featuring Mexican-inspired fast-food . The chain was founded in 1969 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and currently has more than 400 Taco John’s restaurants in 24 states....
  
   
• Texas Roadhouse
  Texas Roadhouse
  Texas Roadhouse is a chain restaurant that specializes in steaks and promotes a western theme. Texas Roadhouse Corporation is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The first restaurant was opened in Clarksville, Indiana, in 1993 at the Green Tree Mall across the Ohio River from Louisville,...
  
   
• Tony Roma's
  Tony Roma's
  Tony Roma's is a casual dining chain restaurant specializing in baby back ribs . The first location was established in 1972 in North Miami, Florida, by the founder, and today there are roughly 260 locations in 27 countries comprising 32 territories...
  
  
• Trader Vic's
• Uno Chicago Grill
  Uno Chicago Grill
  Uno Chicago Grill, or more informally as Unos, is the title for a franchised pizzeria restaurant chain under the parent company Uno Restaurant Holdings Corporation...
  
   
• Valentino's
  Valentino's
  Valentino's is a regional Italian restaurant chain based in Lincoln, Nebraska. Valentino's was founded by Val and Zena Weiler in 1957. The restaurant was purchased by two Lincoln families in 1971 and began franchising additional locations...
  
   
• Village Inn
  Village Inn
  Village Inn is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States. Its restaurants are known for their breakfast menu items, including buttermilk pancakes, skillets, crepes, omelettes, and eggs. In additional to their breakfast offerings, they also feature a variety of salads, sandwiches,...
  
  
• Waffle House
  Waffle House
  Waffle House is a restaurant chain with over 1600 locations found in 25 states in the United States. Most of the locations are in the Southern United States, where the chain remains a regional cultural icon...
  
  
• 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...
  
   
• 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...
  
  
• Which Wich?
  Which Wich?
  Which Wich? is a fast casual sandwich chain with its headquarters in Downtown Dallas, Texas. Founded by restaurateur Jeff Sinelli in 2003, Which Wich? began with one location in downtown Dallas. It began franchising in 2005. As of April 2011 the chain has 131 locations nationwide.- Menu :Which...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• York Steak House
  York Steak House
  York Steak House was a national chain of restaurants in the United States that specialized in steaks and potatoes. It was among several chains then owned by cereal manufacturer General Mills. Though popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of its locations shut down in 1989...
  
  
• 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...
  
   

Fast-food

Fast-casual

• Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company
  Atlanta Bread Company is a bakery café chain that was originally established in 1993 in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Georgia. In 1995, the company began franchising and expanding across the country. As of late 2008, the company has 110 locations in 24 states...
  
  
• Au Bon Pain
• Back Yard Burgers
  Back Yard Burgers
  Back Yard Burgers is a regional franchise chain of quick serve restaurants. Its headquarters is located in Nashville, Tennessee. As of August 2008, there are 171 Back Yard Burgers locations in 20 states throughout the Southern and Midwestern United States, chiefly in Tennessee and...
  
  
• Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh
  Baja Fresh is a chain of fast-casual Tex Mex restaurants founded in Newbury Park, California in 1990 and headquartered in Cypress, California. The chain emphasizes fresh ingredients, and each restaurant features a self-serve salsa bar....
  
  
• Boston Market
  Boston Market
  Boston Market, known as Boston Chicken until 1995, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast casual restaurants. It is owned by private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.-History:...
  
  
• Bruegger's
  Bruegger's
  Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc., and wholly owned subsidiary Threecaf Brands Canada, Inc., are franchisers and operators of Bruegger's bakery-cafés, Timothy's World Coffee, mmmuffins, and Michel's Baguette....
  
  
• Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings
  Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar is a casual dining restaurant and sports bar franchise in the United States that is known for its Buffalo wings.-History:...
  
  
• California Tortilla
  California Tortilla
  California Tortilla is a chain of franchised fast casual Mexican restaurants, the first of which was opened in 1995 in Bethesda, Maryland by business partners Pam Felix and Alan Cohen. The chain's menu, which features burritos, is comparable to that of its competitors, such as Baja Fresh and...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Chicken Out Rotisserie
  Chicken Out Rotisserie
  Chicken Out Rotisserie is a Washington, D.C., metropolitan area chain of fast food restaurants serving chicken and country-style foods. Their 11 locations in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia advertise a healthy menu that uses fresh, all natural ingredients, and organic chickens without steroids,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Cold Stone Creamery
  Cold Stone Creamery
  Cold Stone Creamery is an American-based ice cream parlor chain. The company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is owned and operated by Kahala Franchising, L.L.C. The company's main product is premium ice cream, or ice cream made with approximately 12-14% butterfat, that is made on location and...
  
  
• Corner Bakery Cafe
  Corner Bakery Cafe
  Corner Bakery Cafe is a U.S. chain of cafes that specialize in pastries, breads, breakfast dishes, gourmet sandwiches, and salads. Corner Bakery Cafe is considered to be a part of the fast casual market segment of the food service industry, offering a somewhat higher quality of food and atmosphere...
  
  
• Cosi
  Così (restaurant)
  Così is an American restaurant chain that primarily offers gourmet sandwiches and salads. It was founded in 1996, and there are currently over 144 locations in the continental United States. The original Così restaurant was based on a cafe in Paris, France....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill
  Damon's Grill & Sports Bar was founded in 1979 by Irv Rossman, Jerry Rossman, Sam Massara, Joe Mazzola, and Joe Nader and is currently headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Restaurants are usually sectioned into two separate parts: The dining room, and the clubhouse with bar...
  
  
• Daphne's Greek Cafe
  Daphne's Greek Cafe
  Daphne's Greek Cafe is a privately owned fast food restaurant chain operating in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and soon in Washington with over 80 locations...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

• Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza
  Donatos Pizza is a pizza delivery restaurant chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It has nearly 200 locations in six states, with the majority of locations in Ohio...
  
  
• D.P. Dough
  D.P. Dough
  D.P. Dough is a calzone delivery franchise and restaurant chain that was started in Amherst, Massachusetts. Most of its stores are located throughout college towns in the Northeastern United States and Midwest....
  
  
• Fazoli's
  Fazoli's
  The Fazoli’s brand was created in 1988 by Jerrico, Inc, a multi-brand restaurant group based in Lexington, Kentucky, and then parent company of Long John Silver’s restaurants. Two years and five founding restaurants later, the Italian fast food concept was sold to Seed Restaurant Group, Inc. , also...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Five Guys Burgers & Fries
  Five Guys
  Five Guys is a fast casual restaurant chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and French fries. Originating in Arlington, Virginia, the company's headquarters are now in Lorton, Virginia.-Food:...
  
  
• Freebirds
  Freebirds World Burrito
  Freebirds World Burrito, Freebirds for short, is a regional chain of fast casual burrito restaurants. Founded in 1987 in Isla Vista, California by Mark Orfalea and Pierre Dube, the restaurant chain expanded into Texas in 1990...
  
  
• Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers
  Fuddruckers is an American fast casual, franchised, restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers. In 2011 Fuddruckers had 56 company-operated restaurants and 129 franchises across the United States with one in Saskatchewan, Canada and four in Puerto Rico...
  
  
• Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli
  Jason's Deli is a fast casual deli restaurant chain headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, United States.-History:Jason's Deli was founded in Beaumont, Texas in 1976 by Joe Tortorice Jr. and his partners Rusty Coco, Pete Verde and Pat Broussard....
  
  
• Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's
  Jimmy John's is a franchised sandwich restaurant founded by Jimmy John Liautaud in 1983 and headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. The franchise has over 1000 locations in 39 states and has opened approximately 200 units per year for the last three years...
  
  
• Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza
  Jerry's Subs & Pizza is a fast casual sandwich and pizza restaurant chain in the Washington, DC area and currently has over 140 locations. Jerry's was founded in 1954 in Wheaton, Maryland and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland....
  
  
• McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli
  McAlister's Deli is a chain of fast casual restaurants founded in 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi by retired dentist Dr. Don Newcomb. There are currently over 300 locations in 23 states, ranging from Virginia in the East to Florida in the South to New Mexico in West to Indiana in the Midwest...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company
  Noodles & Company is a chain of fast casual restaurants located in parts of the United States specializing in proprietary and regionally popular pasta bowls inspired from worldwide cuisine all made-to-order.The company is privately held, with Catterton Partners...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Panera Bread
  Panera Bread
  Panera Bread is a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada that sells breads, sandwiches, soups, salads, and other bakery items. Its headquarters are in Sunset Hills, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.-Corporate history:In 1993, Au Bon Pain Co...
  
  
• Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner
  Pei Wei Asian Diner is a restaurant chain in the United States. Owned by P. F. Chang's China Bistro , it offers a modest selection of freshly prepared Asian items influenced by the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand...
  
  
• Penn Station
  Penn Station (restaurant)
  Penn Station is a chain of East Coast sub restaurants found throughout the South and Midwest United States. The first restaurant was opened in 1985 by Jeff Osterfeld in Cincinnati, Ohio...
  
  
• Pick Up Stix
  Pick Up Stix
  Pick Up Stix is a San Clemente, California based "fast-casual" restaurant chain that serves fresh Asian cuisine through corporate-owned restaurants and franchises in Southern California. The company serves both dine-in and take-out customers, and offers offsite catering and some delivery services....
  
  
• Pollo Campero
  Pollo Campero
  Campero International, S.A., operating as Pollo Campero, is the largest fast food chain in the continent of Americas and one of the world's largest fast food chains in the fried chicken market...
  
  
• Portillo's
  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:...
  
  

• Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works
  Potbelly Sandwich Works is a privately held restaurant chain that sells submarine sandwiches in the United States. Its name is derived from potbelly stoves common in the late 19th century. The company is headquartered in the tower of the Merchandise Mart in the Near North Side, Chicago,...
  
  
• Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill
  Qdoba Mexican Grill , is a chain of fast casual "Fresh Mex" restaurants in the United States serving Mexican-style cuisine. The company is owned by Jack in the Box, having been owned and expanded by ACI Capital until 2003....
  
  
• Rax
• Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
  Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
  Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill, formerly known as Rubio's Baja Grill, also simply known as Rubio's, is a fast casual "Fresh Mex" or "New Mex" restaurant chain specializing in Mexican food, with an emphasis on fish tacos. As of 2007, Rubio's operates, licenses or franchises more than 170 restaurants...
  
  
• Rumbi Island Grill
  Rumbi Island Grill
  Rumbi Island Grill is a fast casual restaurant chain based in Sandy, Utah, United States, that specializes in tropical cuisine. Rumbi’s menu includes rice bowls, island-themed entrées, salads, hamburgers, and sandwiches. There are 25 Rumbi locations, including 13 in Utah, five in Arizona, and six...
  
  
• Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili
  Skyline Chili is a chain of chili restaurants based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1949 by Greek immigrant Nicholas Lambrinides, Skyline Chili is named for the view of Cincinnati's skyline that Lambrinides could see from his first restaurant , opened in the section of town now known as Price Hill...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Spicy Pickle
  Spicy Pickle
  Spicy Pickle is a Denver, Colorado based franchise of fast-casual restaurants, mainly serving panini, along with soups, salads and pizzetti. Chefs Kevin Morrison and Tony Walker founded Spicy Pickle and opened the first location in 1999....
  
  
• Stewart's Restaurants
• Taco John's
  Taco John's
  Taco John's is a Cheyenne, Wyoming-based fast-food restaurant featuring Mexican-inspired fast-food . The chain was founded in 1969 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and currently has more than 400 Taco John’s restaurants in 24 states....
  
  
• Tijuana Flats
  Tijuana Flats
  Tijuana Flats is an American chain restaurant serving Tex-Mex cuisine. It is known for its hot sauce selection and for its unusually-decorated interiors, which depict mythological creatures. Company founder Brian Wheeler opened the first Tijuana Flats restaurant in Winter Park, Florida in November...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Which Wich?
  Which Wich?
  Which Wich? is a fast casual sandwich chain with its headquarters in Downtown Dallas, Texas. Founded by restaurateur Jeff Sinelli in 2003, Which Wich? began with one location in downtown Dallas. It began franchising in 2005. As of April 2011 the chain has 131 locations nationwide.- Menu :Which...
  
  
• Wingstop
• Zankou Chicken
  Zankou Chicken
  Zankou Chicken is a small, family-owned chain of Armenian and Middle-Eastern fast casual restaurants within the Los Angeles area. Its specialty is rotisserie chicken served with a garlic paste and pita bread...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Zoës Kitchen
  Zoës Kitchen
  Zoës Kitchen is a fast casual restaurant chain headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Serving a menu of variety of chicken salad, pasta salad, pitas and grilled chicken sandwiches, the chain has grown to include 54 locations across 12 states with plans to expand further.Zoës Kitchen...
  
  

Casual dining

See also

• List of coffeehouse chains
• List of ice cream parlor chains
• List of pizza chains
• List of restaurant chains
• List of revolving restaurants