Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Countries with international restaurant chains worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,013 countries with international restaurant chains worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 125,734 professional contacts across them, including 11,544 with verified work emails. Brazil is the largest market and Dubai the largest hub.
This list covers countries with international restaurant chains worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for countries with international restaurant chains follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest countries with international restaurant chains worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,864 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KFC Corporation, based in Plano, Texas, is one of the few brands in America that can boast about having a rich, 60-year history of success and innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 13,745 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jollibee Foods Corporation (PSE: JFC)(the "Company") is one of the world’s fastest-growing restaurant companies, driven by its purpose of spreading joy through superior taste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 10,143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yum!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 7,837 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Americana Restaurants is the largest restaurant operator in the MENA region and Kazakhstan in terms of number of restaurants in its countries of operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 5,420 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Restaurant Brands International Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,738 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alsea es el operador de restaurantes líder en América Latina y Europa, con marcas de reconocimiento global dentro de los segmentos de Comida rápida, Cafeterías y Restaurantes de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,756 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nos conectamos com pessoas, por meio de histórias vividas e servidas à mesa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,714 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We create the restaurant business and we would like to invite you to our kitchen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,978 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos uma marca genuinamente brasileira, nascida em 1952 no burburinho de Copacabana no Rio de Janeiro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,342 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Famous Brands is best known for its much-loved brands and reputation as a leading and responsible franchisor in the restaurant industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,332 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Greg Flynn in Flynn Group has grown from a small Applebee's operator and developer in Washington State into the world's largest franchise operator and one of the 20…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lite Bite Foods, India’s largest and most dynamic food and beverage retail company, with 21 owned and 9 managed brands under its umbrella.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Maxim’s Caterers Limited Founded in 1956, Maxim’s Group is one of Asia’s leading food and beverage companies, operating Chinese, Western, Japanese and Southeast Asian…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,066 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Max’s Group Inc.(MGI) is the largest casual dining restaurant company in the Philippines with more than 650 stores across 13 brands locally and internationally, among which…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,038 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At St-Hubert Group, we are committed to delivering happiness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 875 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atlanta-based platform company GoTo Foods (formerly known as Focus Brands) is a leading developer of global multi-channel foodservice brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 845 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by Cameron Mitchell in 1993, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, LLC (CMR) has built a diverse portfolio of varied concepts, ranging from multi-location upscale destinations to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 812 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1883, Recipe Restaurant Group International is Canada's largest full-service restaurant company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 715 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Minor Food is one of largest restaurant operators in the region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 686 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In the summer of 2012, Abba Napa, Eliza Antonino, and Jon Syjuco teamed up to form The Moment Group, believing that Manila’s dining scene was “having a moment.” Backed by sound…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 677 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sizzling Platter began in 1963 as a Mom and Pop with a Sizzler location in Sugar House, Utah, and a dream to be more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 637 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Regarded as ‘the Prince of Indian cuisine’, Zorawar Kalra, after the successful exit from his maiden venture credited with introducing one of the most awarded regional cuisine…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 630 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2001, Cravia has grown from a sole Cinnabon outlet in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to become the fastest growing and one of the most successful food and beverage franchise operators…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 623 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CPG's story began in 1980 with the inauguration of the first Chinese restaurant in Dubai, Chinese Palace Restaurant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 611 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EXCELLENCE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: countries with international restaurant chains. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names countries with international restaurant chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of countries with international restaurant chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name countries with international restaurant chains. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Countries with international restaurant chains worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among countries with international restaurant chains, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for countries with international restaurant chains are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “countries with international restaurant chains”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names countries with international restaurant chains), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among countries with international restaurant chains, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 11,544 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Countries with international restaurant chains by location
8 lists · largest firstEvery Countries with international restaurant chains list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in Brazil178
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in the United States156
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in India102
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in the United Arab Emirates42
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in Australia37
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in Canada37
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in the United Kingdom31
- Countries with international restaurant chains based in Spain27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names countries with international restaurant chains, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many countries with international restaurant chains are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,013 countries with international restaurant chains worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
KFC US, headquartered in Plano, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most countries with international restaurant chains?
Brazil leads with 178 companies, followed by the United States (156) and India (102). Every countries with international restaurant chains list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most countries with international restaurant chains?
Dubai leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by London (16) and Mumbai (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 11,544 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,013 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.