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Top 25 Quick service restaurant franchisors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 147 quick service restaurant franchisors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 88,320 professional contacts across them, including 4,431 with verified work emails. Atlanta is the largest hub.
This list covers quick service restaurant franchisors headquartered in the United States, 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 21, 2026.
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 quick service restaurant franchisors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44,395 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chick-fil-A, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 19,997 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dunkin' Brands Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 10,143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yum!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,691 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Carrols Restaurant Group, LLC, headquartered in Syracuse, NY, is a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International, Inc.(RBI).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,265 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 754 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KBP is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchise groups in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 670 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who would have imagined that a little Omaha, Nebraska, pizza shop opened more than 50 years ago would become the legendary pizza chain it is today?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to our Restaurant Family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 374 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sparked by the vision of one entrepreneur opening a single smoothie and juice bar over two decades ago, to today - Kahala Brands is one of the fastest-growing franchising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Quality Dining, we believe in serving each guest with pride and enthusiasm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our recipe is simple: quality products through quality people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Pal's Sudden Service is one of America's leading quick-service restaurant chains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FAT Brands (NASDAQ: FAT) is a leading global franchising company that strategically acquires, markets and develops fast casual and casual dining restaurant concepts around the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deli Delicious started in Fresno, CA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ambrosia QSR is building an organization of franchised quick-service restaurants throughout the Pacific Northwest and west coast, focused on our partnership with the Burger King…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to serve the freshest, highest quality food we can offer to the communities we are lucky to be a part of in an atmosphere that makes everyone feel at home whether…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Starboard Group is a leader in the franchise industry ranked among the top 100 franchisees in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Rackson Restaurants is a franchisee of quick service restaurants operating locations in the states of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Capstone Restaurant Group is a collection of affiliated companies that operates and franchises over 100 Hardee’s restaurants in 8 states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Luihn Food Systems is a franchisee of Yum Brands and Hurricane Grill and Wings with over 75 restaurants in the Southeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a Franchisor with several Corporate locations currently operating in the Pittsburgh, PA area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Front Range Holdings is a partnership created to acquire, operate, and grow best-in-class businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: quick service restaurant franchisors. 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 quick service restaurant franchisors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of quick service restaurant franchisors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name quick service restaurant franchisors. 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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Quick service restaurant franchisors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 147 companies.
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 quick service restaurant franchisors, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “quick service restaurant franchisors”. 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 quick service restaurant franchisors), 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 quick service restaurant franchisors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 4,431 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 21, 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.
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 quick service restaurant franchisors, 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 quick service restaurant franchisors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 147 quick service restaurant franchisors headquartered in the United States 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?
Chick-Fil-A Restaurants, headquartered in Atlanta, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most quick service restaurant franchisors?
Atlanta leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (3) and Fayetteville (3).
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 4,431 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 147 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 21, 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.
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