Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Fried chicken restaurants worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,272 fried chicken restaurants worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 156,361 professional contacts across them, including 5,334 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers fried chicken restaurants 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 fried chicken restaurants 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 fried chicken restaurants worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22,138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re KFC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 17,539 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in New Orleans in 1972, POPEYES® has more than 45 years of history and culinary tradition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 11,972 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded by Todd Graves in 1996 in Baton Rouge, La, RAISING CANE'S CHICKEN FINGERS has over restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 8,253 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sure, we’re The Wing Experts, but it’s our flavor that defines us.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 7,258 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1990, Zaxbys® is committed to serving delicious Chicken Fingerz™, Zalads®, wings, and signature sauces with Southern hospitality and a modern twist.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 6,722 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1977 in Charlotte, Bojangles, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 6,197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hooters operates over 400 Hooters restaurants in 42 states and 27 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 6,195 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This is KFC - home of the real ones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,641 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952, Church's Texas Chicken® and Texas Chicken® is a globally recognized brand in the Quick Service Restaurant industry and one of the largest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,746 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pollo Campero started in Guatemala with a prized chicken recipe that has been delighting friends & families since 1971.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,804 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ALBAIK is one of Saudi Arabia's leading quick-service restaurant chains, serving Customers its signature chicken and seafood meals for over 46 years - becoming an icon for having…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,649 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,319 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our roots run deep in the Delta where the food is honest, meals are social, and the door is always open.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,265 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 1,088 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From its humble beginnings as a parking lot pop-up to a brick and mortar sensation with lines consistently around the block, Dave's can't keep up from its throngs of hot chicken…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 913 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mary Brown's Chicken has over 300 locations across Canada and is growing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 904 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Herkese kaliteli, lezzetli, ulaşılabilir fiyatta bir yemeği kendini iyi hissedebileceği mekanlarda sunma misyonuyla yola çıktık ve ilk Tavuk Dünyası restoranımızı 2012 yılı şubat…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 793 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Original and Still the Best® Golden Tenders are only found at Golden Chick restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 783 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hey, y’all, we’re Popeyes 🧡 Born in New Orleans in 1972, Popeyes started with one small restaurant and one big ambition: to serve up authentic Louisiana-style chicken packed with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 722 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Cook Out, May I take your order, please!" It has been nearly 30 years and counting since these words were first spoken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 612 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At PDQ Chicken, we’re best-known for perfect hand-breaded, buttermilk chicken and our serious dedication to the community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 579 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1930, Kentucky.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 505 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Church's Chicken se estableció en Puerto Rico en Febrero del 1978, en la ciudad de Bayamón.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 495 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chicken Licken is a restaurants company based out of Kroonstad, Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa.” 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: fried chicken restaurants. 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 fried chicken restaurants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of fried chicken restaurants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name fried chicken restaurants. 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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Fried chicken restaurants 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 fried chicken restaurants, 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 fried chicken restaurants are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “fried chicken restaurants”. 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 fried chicken restaurants), 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 fried chicken restaurants, 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, 5,334 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.
Fried chicken restaurants by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Fried chicken restaurants 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 fried chicken restaurants, 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 fried chicken restaurants are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,272 fried chicken restaurants 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, headquartered in Dallas, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most fried chicken restaurants?
The United States leads with 457 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (71). Every fried chicken restaurants list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most fried chicken restaurants?
London leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by New York (14) and Dallas (11).
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 5,334 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,272 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.