Five Guys Burgers and Fries

Top 500 Chains

Five Guys Burgers and Fries

The fast casual is widely cited as the model for better-burger concepts

Five Guys Burgers and Fries

No-frills menu of signature burgers customizable with any combo of 15 free toppings

The top three burger chains, all QSRs, own two-thirds of the category's sales.

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More than 1,000 top-level chain executives came together to compare approaches to common problems and opportunities. The resulting discussions at the Restaurant Leadership Conference covered a lot of ground, including the latest challenges in building off-premise sales.

The top and fastest-growing chains don’t always align with average total menu items in their sectors.

Customers reveal which restaurant chains offer them the most craveable burgers that they can’t get anywhere else in a recent Technomic survey.

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

The barbs aren't always kind, but chains are hoping they may be memorable.

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