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List Of Fast Food Restaurant Chains
This is a list of notable current and former fast food restaurant chains, as distinct from fast casual restaurants (see List of casual dining restaurant chains), coffeehouses (see List of coffeehouse chains), ice cream parlors (see List of ice cream parlor chains), and pizzerias (see List of pizza chains). International chains * 85°C Bakery Cafe * A&W Restaurants * Arby's * Auntie Anne's * Baskin-Robbins * Big Boy Restaurants * Blaze Pizza * Booster Juice * Burger King * California Pizza Kitchen * Carl's Jr. * Chefette * Chicken Cottage * Chick-fil-A * Chipotle Mexican Grill * Church's Texas Chicken * Cinnabon * Dairy Queen * Dave's Hot Chicken * Dixy Chicken * Dodo Pizza * Domino's * Dunkin' Donuts * Five Guys * German Doner Kebab * Hardee's * Hesburger * itsu * Jollibee * KFC * Krispy Kreme * Leon Restaurants * Little Caesars * Long John Silver's * Marco's Pizza * Mary Brown's * Max Hamburgers * McDonald's * No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Food Restaurant
A fast-food restaurant, also known as a quick-service restaurant (QSR) within the industry, is a specific type of restaurant that serves fast food, fast-food cuisine and has minimal Foodservice#Table service, table service. The food served in fast-food restaurants is typically part of a "Western pattern diet, meat-sweet diet", offered from a limited menu, cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot, finished and packaged to order, and usually available for Take-out, take away, though seating may be provided. Fast-food restaurants are typically part of a chain store#Restaurant chains, restaurant chain or Franchising, franchise operation that provides standardized ingredients and/or partially prepared foods and supplies to each restaurant through controlled supply channels. The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951. While the first fast-food restaurant in the United States was a White Castle (restaurant), White Castle in 1921, fast-food resta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Pizza Kitchen
California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK) is an American casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza. The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, United States. California Pizza Kitchen introduced and popularized BBQ Chicken Pizza. Description The chain has over 185 locations in 32 U.S. states and 10 other countries, including 15 California Pizza Kitchen nontraditional, franchise concepts designed for airports, universities, and stadiums. CPK's brand is licensed to a line of hand-tossed style, crispy thin crust, gluten-free crust, and small frozen pizzas for sale in supermarkets. The brand was originally licensed to Kraft in 1999. The license was assigned to Nestlé after it purchased Kraft's pizza lines in 2010. History In 1985, Flax and Rosenfield pooled $200,000 in bank loans and savings along with $350,000 invested from friends to lease space on Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunkin' Donuts
DD IP Holder LLC, doing business as Dunkin', and originally Dunkin' Donuts, is an American multinational coffee and doughnut company, as well as a quick service restaurant. It was founded by Bill Rosenberg in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1950. The chain was acquired by Baskin-Robbins' holding company Allied Lyons in 1990, its acquisition of the Mister Donut chain and the conversion of that chain to Dunkin' Donuts facilitated the brand's growth in North America that year. Dunkin' and Baskin-Robbins eventually became subsidiaries of Dunkin' Brands, headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts, in 2004. Dunkin' Brands was purchased by Inspire Brands on December 15, 2020. The chain began rebranding as a "beverage-led company,” and was renamed Dunkin' in January 2019; while stores in the U.S. began using the new name, the company intends to roll out the rebranding to all of its international stores eventually. It is also sometimes known locally in the Northeast as Dunkie's. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domino's
Domino's Pizza, Inc., commonly referred to as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960 and led by CEO Russell Weiner. The corporation is Delaware-domiciled and headquartered at the Domino's Farms office park in Ann Arbor Township, near Ann Arbor, Michigan. As of 2018, Domino's had approximately 15,000 stores, with 5,649 in the United States, 1,500 in India, and 1,249 in the United Kingdom. Domino's has stores in over 83 countries and 5,701 cities worldwide. History 1960s–2010s In 1960, Tom Monaghan and his brother, Jim, took over the operation of DomiNick's, an existing location of a small pizza restaurant chain that had been owned by Dominick DeVarti, at 507 Cross Street (now 301 West Cross Street)Jim Leonard, ''Living the Faith: A Life of Tom Monaghan'' (University of Michigan Press, 2012) pp41-55 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, near Eastern Michigan University. The deal was secured by a $500 down payment, after which the brothers borrowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodo Pizza
Dodo Pizza () is a multinational pizza сhain founded in 2011 in Syktyvkar, Russia and headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Operating under the umbrella of QSR group Dodo Brands, the company has more than 1000 restaurants in 21 countries across Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa. Operations Ovchinnikov states that the company views itself as an IT-driven retail company based on the principle of transparency. Dodo Pizza uses a cloud-based system known as Dodo IS that collects and processes operations data, reports real-time business analytics, and helps kitchen and delivery staff to be more efficient by allowing for more informed decision-making. History In 2014, the company ran the largest crowdfunding initiative in Russia to date, raising over $2 million from 180 private investors. Dodo also made headlines from Washington to Tokyo with what it billed as the world's first commercial delivery of pizzas by drone, to customers in the central square in Syktyvkar. In September 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixy Chicken
Dixy Chicken is a British fast food chain that specialises in halal chicken, founded in 1986 in Solihull and currently headquartered in Bury. The company was founded by two British Pakistanis, who began by offering halal versions of products found in restaurants such as McDonald's and KFC, before it developed into its own chain. It is owned by an English company, Dixy Group Holdings Limited. Dixy Chicken has 110 outlets within the United Kingdom, the majority on high streets, with some drive thru locations. Internationally, it has locations in Syria, Norway, United States, New Zealand, India, Brunei, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. History Dixy Chicken was founded in 1986 by Mohammed "Mo" Chowdhury and Samuel Jackson (Meshoe). It was taken over by the American chain Church's Chicken in February 2008. At the end of 2008, it was acquired by Shakeel Arshad. In 2022, Arshad sold the company to Mohammed Ali Bhatti. Food safety and hygiene The Food Standards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave's Hot Chicken
Dave's Hot Chicken is an American fast casual restaurant chain headquartered in Pasadena, California which serves Nashville-style hot chicken. Founded in 2017 in Los Angeles, California with a single restaurant, the chain expanded to over 100 locations in four countries by mid-2022. Dave's Hot Chicken celebrity investors include Drake (musician), Drake, Samuel L. Jackson, Maria Shriver, Michael Strahan and Tom Werner. In June 2025, Dave’s Hot Chicken was acquired by the private equity firm Roark Capital in a deal valued at $1 billion. Menu The chain's menu is simple, consisting only of 4 choices of hot chicken Chicken fingers, tenders, Slider (sandwich), sliders or both. Tenders are served on white bread, while sliders are served on buns with Pickled cucumber, pickles, house-made "Coleslaw, kale slaw" and a chipotle Mayonnaise, mayo sauce known as Dave's Sauce. Customers are offered the choice of seven different spice levels for their chicken, ranging from "no spice" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dairy Queen
International Dairy Queen, Inc. (DQ) is an American multinational fast food chain founded in 1940 and currently headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota. The first Dairy Queen was owned and operated by Sherb Noble and first opened on June 22, 1940, in Joliet, Illinois. It serves a variety of hot and fried food, as well as original frozen dairy products that vary from location to location.DairyQueen.com page:History of Dairy Queen, IDQ." History The soft-serve formula was first developed in 1938 by John Fremont "J.F." McCullough and his son Alex. They convinced friend and loyal customer Sherb Noble to offer the product in his ice cream store in Kankakee, Illinois. On the first day of sales, Noble sold more than 1,600 servings of the new dessert within two hours. Noble and the McCulloughs went on to open the first Dairy Queen store in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois. It closed in the 1950s, but the 501 N Chicago Street building is a city-designated landmark. Since 1940, the chain ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinnabon
Cinnabon, Inc., is an American chain of baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in areas with high pedestrian traffic such as malls, airports and rest stops. The company's signature item is the cinnamon roll. As of December 2017, there were more than 1,200 Cinnabon bakeries operating in 48 countries. Its headquarters are in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States.Cinnabon At-A-Glance ." Cinnabon. Retrieved on February 25, 2010.City Council Districts ." City of Sandy Springs. Retrieved on July 4, 2009. The company is co-owned—with Schlotzsky's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church's Texas Chicken
Church's Texas Chicken is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The chain was founded as Church's Fried Chicken To-Go by George W. Church Sr. in April 1952, in San Antonio, Texas, across the street from The Alamo. Church's Texas Chicken trades as Texas Chicken or Church's Chicken in many countries. The chain is owned by American private equity firm High Bluff Capital Partners. As of 2017, Church's Texas Chicken had more than 1,700 franchised and company-owned locations in 26 countries. History In 1952, retired chicken incubator salesman George W. Church Sr. opened the first Church's Chicken, named Church's Fried Chicken To-Go, in San Antonio, Texas. Initially, Church's Chicken was a single walk-up establishment that only sold fried chicken. Two pieces of chicken and a roll cost 49 cents. Church's Chicken added fries and jalapeños to its menu in 1955. To allow customers to see their food prepared wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. ( ), often known simply as Chipotle, is an American multinational chain of fast casual restaurants specializing in bowls, tacos, and Mission burritos made to order in front of the customer. As of March 31, 2025, Chipotle has nearly 3,800 restaurants. Its name derives from '' chipotle'', the Nahuatl name (from ''chilpoctli'') for a smoked and dried jalapeño chili pepper. Chipotle was one of the first chains of fast casual restaurants. It was founded by Steve Ells on July 13, 1993. Ells was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Chipotle. He was inspired to open the restaurant after visiting taquerias and burrito shops in San Francisco's Mission District while working as a chef. Ells wanted to show customers that fresh ingredients could be used to quickly serve food. Chipotle had 16 restaurants (all in Colorado) when McDonald's Corporation became a major investor in 1998. By the time McDonald's fully divested itself from Chipotle in 2006, the chain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A, Inc. ( , a Word play, play on the American English pronunciation of "wikt:filet#Pronunciation, filet") is an American fast food restaurant chain and the largest chain specializing in Chicken burger, chicken sandwiches. Headquartered in College Park, Georgia, Chick-fil-A operates restaurants across 48 states, as well as in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The company also has operations in Canada, and previously had restaurants in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The restaurant has a breakfast menu and a lunch and dinner menu. The chain also provides catering services. Chick-fil-A calls its specialty the "original chicken sandwich". It is a piece of Deep frying, deep-fried Breading, breaded boneless chicken breast served on a toasted bun with two slices of dill pickle, or with lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Many of the company's values are influenced by the Christian religious beliefs of its late founder, S. Truett Cathy (1921–2014), a devout Southern B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
