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Top 25 Restaurant bar operators based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 733 restaurant bar operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 11,627 professional contacts across them, including 593 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers restaurant bar operators 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 restaurant bar operators based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our story dates back to the 1800's, when millions of Longhorns roamed freely throughout Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Carolina Ale House is a hospitality company based out of 500 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 386 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With 10 properties and more than 800 employees, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group (TKRG) has grown from one restaurant to a large family of businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 379 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SHONEYS is a restaurants company based out of 226 S Pike W, Sumter, South Carolina, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since first partnering in 2009, Chef Andrew Carmellini, Josh Pickard, and Luke Ostrom have opened a national portfolio of restaurants and culinary services at preeminent hotels…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Flagship Restaurant Group is a collection of restaurant and hospitality concepts created by lifelong industry professionals who believe dining out should always feel like an…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kaskaid Hospitality is a privately held, Twin Cities based restaurant company founded in 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Grove, Inc.(TGI) is the destination for all your favorite brands, providing unrivaled service that nourishes people and communities in high volume locations across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Off Hospitality Group is the management company for avec, avec river north, The Publican, Publican Quality Meats, Publican Quality Bread, Big Star, Big Star Wrigley and West…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It started in 1995.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bar Louie is a national collection of neighborhood bars featuring hand-crafted cocktails and spirits, delectable food and an inviting atmosphere for people to enjoy time with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jon & Vinny’s is a fast-paced, high-volume, all-day restaurant serving several LA communities seven days a week.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PB & J Restaurant Group is a restaurant consulting, owning and management company that was founded in 1987 by Paul Khoury.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2012, Three Oaks Hospitality is a collection of community-driven restaurants and bars including: Steelbach, Ciro’s, M.Bird, Stones Throw, BAR AW, Butcher n’ Barbeque…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hospitality group with a diverse portfolio of concepts including: FWD Day + Nightclub - Cleveland, OH SeeSaw Kitchen + Bar - Columbus, OH Garden City - Shaker Heights, OH Bell &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tavern Hospitality Group is a Denver-based company, originating in 1997, comprised of five restaurant/bar concepts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TRUST Restaurant Group creates a food and beverage experience that’s right for you and your guests.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Golden Age Hospitality is a vertically integrated hospitality group overseeing the design, development, operations, and consulting of some of New York’s most successful food and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SDCM is a nationally acclaimed, San Diego based restaurant group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Georges Of Galilee is a Food and Beverage company located on 250 Sand Hill Cove Rd, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Big Onion Hospitality is a collection of restaurants and sports bars rooted in the heart of Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We welcome the sojourner that charts their own course, stirs conversation, inspires change, believes in dreams, and embraces the past.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mama Stortini's Restaurant and Bar is a casual, full service restaurant famous for innovative high quality food and beverage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Birmingham” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bonanno Concepts is a Colorado restaurant group from chef and proprietor Frank Bonanno.” 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: restaurant bar 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 restaurant bar operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of restaurant bar operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name restaurant bar 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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Restaurant bar operators 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 733 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 restaurant bar 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “restaurant bar 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 restaurant bar 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 restaurant bar operators, 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, 593 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.
Restaurant bar operators by metro
- Restaurant bar operators in New York38
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 restaurant bar 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 restaurant bar operators are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 733 restaurant bar operators 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?
Saltgrass Steak House, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most restaurant bar operators?
New York leads with 38 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (18) and Houston (13).
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 593 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 733 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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