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Top 500 2021

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Sonic gave customers a needed experience during the pandemic

 By Jonathan Maze on May 13, 2021

The burger chain was one of the fastest-growing concepts in the U.S. last year as customers flocked to its drive-ins. Its challenge now is to keep that.

Financing

Why a virtual brand won't make the Top 500 anytime soon

 By Joe Guszkowski on May 04, 2021

Though a few are already big enough to land on the annual list, they are by nature difficult to track.

Operations

How Chipotle crafted itself into the perfect pandemic brand

By Heather Lalley on May 01, 2021

Chipotle Mexican Grill is the highest grossing fast casual on the latest Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report from Technomic.

Financing

How Jersey Mike’s did things its own way and won 2020

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 21, 2021

The sub chain was an early technology adopter, jumped quickly on the delivery bandwagon and paid for its franchisees’ remodels—and easily bested all other sandwich chains last year.

Financing

How the Top 500 restaurant chains fared during a tough 2020

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 14, 2021

This week’s episode of the RB podcast “A Deeper Dive” features Technomic’s Joe Pawlak, talking about this year’s ranking of the 500 largest restaurant chains in the U.S.

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These are the 10 fastest growing chains in the U.S.

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 08, 2021

Large chains dominated the list of the quickest growing concepts, according to the Technomic Top 500, as the pandemic favored big chains over small chains.

Financing

Technomic Top 500: The biggest chains stood out in a tough 2020

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 02, 2021

Sales at the 500 largest chains fell 8% last year and they closed a lot fewer units than expected, but the 50 largest chains performed far better than everyone else.

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