McDonald's is the world's largest fast-food restaurant chain and one of the best-known brand names. The company has more than 39,000 locations in about 100 countries.
A lot more. In fact, the average Chick-fil-A unit made around $4,090,900 in 2017. By contrast, the total sales for a McDonald's ($2,670,320 per unit), Starbucks ($945,270) and Subway ($416,860) is $4,032,450. That's crazy -- especially since Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays.
Top 50 Sorted by Rank
| QSR 50 Rank | Company | Total Units in 2010 |
|---|
| 1 | McDonald's | 14,027 |
| 2 | Subway* | 23,850 |
| 3 | Burger King*2 | 7,253 |
| 4 | Wendy's* | 6,576 |
11 Surprisingly Healthy Fast-Food Orders, According to Experts
- Starbucks' Oatmeal.
- Chick-Fil-A's Grilled Chicken Nuggets.
- Wendy's Junior Hamburger.
- Panera's You Pick Two.
- Starbucks' Protein Box.
- Panera's Turkey Chili.
- Chipotle's Salad Bowl.
- Starbucks' Sous Vide Eggs.
Top 250: The Ranking
| Rank | Chain |
|---|
| 1 | McDonald's |
| 2 | Starbucks |
| 3 | Chick-fil-A |
| 4 | Taco Bell |
Which Fast Food Restaurants Make the Most Money?
- McDonald's: $37 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
- Starbucks: $13 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
- Subway: $10.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
- Burger King: $10 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
- Taco Bell: $9.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
With the new location, Chick-fil-A now operates in three countries: the US, the UK, and Canada. At the start of 2019, Chick-fil-A only had locations in the US.
Chick-fil-A is among the most successful fast-food chains in the U.S., and it's also one of the cheapest to open. The company grew by $700 million to achieve $5.8 billion in sales in 2014, making it larger than every pizza brand in the country, according toQSR magazine.
Burger King may have a whopping 13,000 locations worldwide, but McDonald's has more than 35,000 eateries. This doesn't mean that McDonald's is merely roughly three times larger. It's actually far bigger than that, and not just because the typical McDonald's location sells more than a BK.
Privately-owned Burger King is McDonald's closest competitor. Yum Brands operates Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut. Subway is the largest restaurant chain in the world in terms of size, but sales have been sliding since 2012.
Through the first six months of the year, Wendy's has maintained a far more stable revenue stream. Total revenue was down 4.3% to $807.3 million, compared with McDonald's decrease of 19% to $8.48 billion in that same time frame.
According to the franchise information group, Franchise City, a Chick-fil-A operator today can expect to earn an average of around $200,000 a year.
While operating a Chick-fil-A restaurant requires a relatively modest $10,000 initial financial commitment ($15,000 CAD in Canada), it requires a holistic commitment to own and operate the business in a hands-on manner. We are in the restaurant industry - the quick-service restaurant industry, at that.
For this massive restaurant chain, the cost of being closed just one day of each week totals to be more than $19,230,769 – each Sunday. This means that every single year, Chick-fil-A takes a loss of more than $1 billion from the closures.
Despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Atlanta-based quick service restaurant chain Chick-fil-A reported record revenues in 2020 amounting to 4.3 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 0.5 billion U.S. dollars from the previous year.
The investment from McDonald's allowed Chipotle to quickly expand, from 16 restaurants in 1998 to over 500 by 2005. By the time Chipotle went public, McDonald's owned more than 90% of the company. But one year later, McDonalds's divested its stake and parted ways with the burrito chain.
Chick-fil-A Net Worth 2021
| Legal Name: | Chick-fil-A |
|---|
| Company Type: | For-Profit |
| Area served: | United States of America and world |
| Products of Company: | fast food restaurant chains |
| Net Worth in 2021: | $15 Billion |
The Chick-Fil-A store located in Midtown Manhattan at 1000 6th Avenue, New York, New York, is the busiest in the United States. This store processes up to 3,500 transactions per day, which is 1 purchase every 16 seconds maintained over 15.5 hours of business every day!
Grant Achatz's Alinea restaurant in Chicago has been named the best in the country in The Daily Meal's annual list of the 101 Best Restaurants in America.
If you are looking for a romantic but unusual spot where intimacy is guaranteed, you should visit Kuappi, the world's smallest restaurant. Located in Iisalmi, Finland, the tiny yet cute and cosy lakeside restaurant has just enough space for a table for two and one staff member.
Today, the McDonald's Corporation has around 37,900 franchises worldwide. The company is now headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. While Subway has overtaken McDonald's in the number of locations, McDonald's is still the largest fast food company by revenue.
McDonald's has been owned by Kroc since April 1955. Kroc's first McDonald's location was opened in Illinois, USA, on April 15 that year. Not long afterwards, Kroc founded McDonald's System, Inc., known today as the McDonald's Corporation.
