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Top 25 Franchise fast food operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,175 franchise fast food operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 493,242 professional contacts across them, including 12,856 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers franchise fast food operators 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for franchise fast food operators 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 franchise fast food operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 201,294 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over locations in over 100 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 71,731 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The year is 1954.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 30,969 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SONIC®, America’s Drive-In®, is part of the Inspire Brands family of restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 18,141 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Waffle House restaurants have been serving Good Food Fast® since 1955.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 13,854 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jack in the Box has always been the place for those who live outside the box.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 10,143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yum!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 9,963 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In-N-Out Burger was founded in 1948 by Harry and Esther Snyder in Baldwin Park, California, and remains privately owned and operated.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 7,867 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “History:*1986: The first Five Guys location opens in Arlington, VA.*1986 - 2001: Five Guys opens five locations around the DC metro-area and perfected their business of making…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4,649 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seconde chaine de burger au monde avec plus de 15 restaurants dans plus de 100 pays, BURGER KING® revient en France grâce au Groupe Bertrand avec un plan de développement…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4,420 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’ve got the boldest burgers on the block.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3,518 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hungry Jack’s® operates as a franchise of the international Burger King™ Corporation across 400 locations Australia wide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,455 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Domino's Pizza Enterprises (DPE) is the largest pizza chain in Australia in terms of both network store numbers and network sales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,948 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,691 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Carrols Restaurant Group, LLC, headquartered in Syracuse, NY, is a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International, Inc.(RBI).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,649 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,609 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When we put the words burgers, shakes and fries on the outside of our building it’s a commitment - not only to you, but to ourselves to always strive to serve the absolute best.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,401 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Habit Burger & Grill, a subsidiary of Yum!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,332 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jollibee is a company based out of 6955 Mission St, Daly City, California, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,103 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “McDonald's launched its first restaurant in Lahore, Pakistan in September 1998, kicking off excitement and zeal throughout the city.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 828 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton in Miami, Florida, BURGER KING® has grown to become the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world, built on the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: franchise fast food operators. 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 franchise fast food operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of franchise fast food operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name franchise fast food operators. 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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Franchise fast food operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 franchise fast food operators, 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 franchise fast food operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “franchise fast food operators”. 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 franchise fast food operators), 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 franchise fast food operators, 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, 12,856 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 20, 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.
Franchise fast food operators by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Franchise fast food operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 franchise fast food operators, 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 franchise fast food operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,175 franchise fast food operators 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?
Mcdonald's, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most franchise fast food operators?
The United States leads with 338 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (53) and France (51). Every franchise fast food operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most franchise fast food operators?
London leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (11) and Atlanta (8).
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 12,856 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,175 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 20, 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.