Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Upscale casual dining chains worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,710 upscale casual dining chains worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 234,651 professional contacts across them, including 10,235 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers upscale casual dining 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for upscale casual dining 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 upscale casual dining chains worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 20,756 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1982, Olive Garden is owned by Darden Restaurants, Inc.(NYSE:DRI), the world's largest company-owned and operated full-service restaurant company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 19,478 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chili's opened as a fun Dallas burger joint with a loyalty to happy hour and blue jeans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 17,175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're America's Diner and we love to feed people - body, mind and soul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 10,591 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1965, TGI Fridays opened its first location in New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 9,687 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 7 | 7,030 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ruby Tuesday was built on southern hospitality and great food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 4,374 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The right place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,521 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Earls Kitchen + Bar is a family-run business, launched by father and son, Leroy Earl “Bus” Fuller and Stanley Earl Fuller in the early ‘80s and is also one of North America’s most…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,409 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 11 | 3,248 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ruth’s Chris Steak House is the largest fine-dining steakhouse company in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3,002 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Iniciamos no ano de 1990 em Fortaleza/CE com o Dom Pastel, primeiro restaurante fundado por Afrânio e Daniela Barreira.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,960 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since the first Bonefish Grill anchored in St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 2,310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “People are our competitive advantage; we hire and retain the best.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,094 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The first Miller’s Ale House opened in 1988 in Jupiter, FL, based on a ‘come as you are’ environment that quickly became known for its freshly-made food, unmatched value…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,892 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Even with excellent people, you cannot build the best restaurant company overnight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,863 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 19 | 1,467 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rooted in the agricultural heritage of founder Bob Evans, whose humble Farmhouse Kitchen laid the foundation for our restaurants over 70 years ago, Bob Evans continues to embody…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It is our sole desire that everything, and we mean everything, that arrives at your table at The Capital Grille delights you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,350 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lazy Dog Restaurants serves made-from-scratch American food and drink with seasonally inspired ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,317 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Firebirds Wood Fired Grill is a privately owned polished-casual American restaurant offering an energetic twist on the traditional grill, featuring a boldly flavored menu in an…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,315 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our founders had a vision when they opened the original Fleming’s restaurant in Newport Beach, California more than 20 years ago-to create a steakhouse that breaks the stereotype.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who We Are We are a family-owned restaurant business that started in 1969 in Portland, Oregon by Guss and Sally Dussin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kona Grill's Mission is to make every experience exceptional.” 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: upscale casual dining 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 upscale casual dining chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of upscale casual dining chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name upscale casual dining 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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Upscale casual dining chains 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 upscale casual dining 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 upscale casual dining chains are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “upscale casual dining 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 upscale casual dining 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 upscale casual dining 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, 10,235 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.
Upscale casual dining chains by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Upscale casual dining chains 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 upscale casual dining 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 upscale casual dining chains are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,710 upscale casual dining 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?
Applebee's Neighborhood Grill BAR, headquartered in Pasadena, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most upscale casual dining chains?
The United States leads with 1,378 companies, followed by Canada (148) and the United Kingdom (118). Every upscale casual dining chains list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most upscale casual dining chains?
London leads with 40 headquartered companies, followed by New York (37) and Chicago (31).
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 10,235 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,710 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.