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Top 25 Southwestern restaurants worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,418 southwestern restaurants worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 164,785 professional contacts across them, including 4,546 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Houston the largest hub.
This list covers southwestern 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for southwestern 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 southwestern restaurants worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52,855 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 26,222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “There's a lot to love about Applebee's!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 9,687 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since opening in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, Red Robin has welcomed Guests to our casual dining restaurants in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,409 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Logan's Roadhouse®, Inc, headquartered in Houston, Texas, currently operates 119 Logan's Roadhouse restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,302 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1964, Del Taco, the Lake Forest, California-based company operates or franchisees nearly 600 restaurants across 16 states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Moe’s!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,089 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Getting our start in 1995, QDOBA Mexican Eats now has more than 740 restaurants in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,506 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bringing friends and family together over delicious food served from the heart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,287 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1980 the first American El Pollo Loco opened on Alvarado Street in Los Angeles, quickly becoming a destination for the best citrus-marinated, fire-grilled pollo in town.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,863 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pappas Restaurants is one of the largest family-owned and operated restaurant groups in the country, serving thoughtful, high-quality food across beloved concepts such as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,781 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ABOUT OTB: On The Border was started nearly 40 years ago when three friends got together and opened a restaurant in Dallas, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,634 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1982 in Austin, Texas, Chuy's serves authentic Tex-Mex food in an eclectic atmosphere full of color and personality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,599 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1960, Jack’s fired up its very first grill in Homewood, Alabama.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,420 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Starting as a small taco stand in Cheyenne, WY back in 1969, our one-of-a-kind tacos and other bold flavors were an instant hit in the community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “People travel to San Antonio thinking, “Remember the Alamo” and leave saying “Remember the great Mexican food?” So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Taco Cabana got its start…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,281 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cafe Rio Mexican Grill is the best Mexican food on the planet, we kid you not.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,178 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With nearly 100 locations throughout the southeast, Sonny’s BBQ® is one of the largest and most popular barbecue restaurant companies in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Torchy’s legacy began in Austin, Texas in 2006 with an idea, a dedicated executive chef, and a food trailer to now operating over 130 restaurants nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 862 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The "Anything Goes" approach to food, wall art, hot sauce & life in general.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 770 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Islands Restaurants was founded in 1982 with a basic philosophy – serve great, fresh food with friendly service in a fun atmosphere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 756 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Houlihan’s is a casual restaurant & bar that doesn't take itself too seriously.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 724 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Uncle Julio’s Restaurant Group serves made-from-scratch Mexican cuisine, using fresh ingredients and authentic recipes to create its signature taste in everything from its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 684 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cotton Patch Cafe was born in Nacogdoches, TX in 1989.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 623 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A privately held company that has been in business since 1961.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 573 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1967, we opened our doors in Abilene, TX to share fresh, authentic Mexican food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: southwestern 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 southwestern restaurants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of southwestern restaurants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name southwestern 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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Southwestern restaurants worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 southwestern 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 southwestern restaurants are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “southwestern 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 southwestern 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 southwestern 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, 4,546 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 22, 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.
Southwestern restaurants by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Southwestern restaurants list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Southwestern restaurants based in the United States1,794
- Southwestern restaurants based in Canada86
- Southwestern restaurants based in Australia30
Cities
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 southwestern 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 southwestern restaurants are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,418 southwestern 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?
Taco Bell, headquartered in Irvine, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most southwestern restaurants?
The United States leads with 1,794 companies, followed by Canada (86) and Australia (30). Every southwestern restaurants list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most southwestern restaurants?
Houston leads with 39 headquartered companies, followed by San Antonio (34) and Austin (32).
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 4,546 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,418 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 22, 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.