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Top 25 Restaurant chains based in Atlanta, United States
RevenueBase identified 58 restaurant chains headquartered in Atlanta, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 157,048 professional contacts across them, including 5,826 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers restaurant chains headquartered in Atlanta, 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 19, 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 chains based in Atlanta, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44,395 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chick-fil-A, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 30,969 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SONIC®, America’s Drive-In®, is part of the Inspire Brands family of restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 20,175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Buffalo Wild Wings, founded in 1982, is the largest sports bar brand in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 19,749 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Papa Johns seeks people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and share our philosophy for success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 16,930 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arby’s, founded in 1964, is the second-largest sandwich restaurant brand in the world with more than 3,400 restaurants in seven countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7,258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,641 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,603 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1989, McAlister’s Deli® is a fast casual restaurant chain known for its genuine hospitality, sandwiches, spuds, soups, salads, desserts and McAlister’s Famous Sweet…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,458 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,300 Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John's, and SONIC…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Schlotzsky’s® is a fast-casual restaurant franchise that started in 1971 and is home to The Original® oven-baked sandwich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 334 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Krispy Krunchy Chicken® (KKC) operates over 3,500 quick-serve locations in all 48 of the contiguous United States, selling over a million pounds of chicken every week.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Story Few things bring people together like good food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 286 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rocket Farm Restaurants is a family of chef-driven restaurants throughout the southeast and Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atlanta-based and nationally acclaimed Buckhead Life Restaurant Group, owns and operates 8 award-winning extremely popular restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia and 4 in South Florida.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen shows off its New Orleans heritage with authentic spicy & mild fried chicken, chicken tenders, seafood and signature sides like red beans and rice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BIG THINGS COME IN SMALLS PACKAGES Our founder Brandon Landry has always been a big fan of cheeseburger sliders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global Franchise Group, LLC was a strategic brand management company with a mission of championing franchise brands and the people who build them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SPH is a group of passionate restauranteurs who will stop at nothing to create unforgettable guest experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What’ll ya have… What’ll ya have?" There’s no friendlier greeting than the one you’ll receive when you step up to the counter at The Varsity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to PONKO Chicken!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1996 by Aziz Hashim, National Restaurant Development, Inc.(NRD) started with 1 quick service restaurant in downtown Atlanta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From our popular spots in midtown, to our rustic vibes out in East Cobb, there’s a little something for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 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 restaurant chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of restaurant chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name restaurant 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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Restaurant chains based in Atlanta, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Atlanta, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Atlanta, over 58 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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Atlanta, United States whose own description of what they do matches “restaurant 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 restaurant 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 restaurant chains, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Atlanta 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, 5,826 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 19, 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 chains by metro in the United States
- Restaurant chains in New York92
- Restaurant chains in Atlanta58
- Restaurant chains in Houston50
- Restaurant chains in Chicago43
- Restaurant chains in Dallas42
- Restaurant chains in Los Angeles34
- Restaurant chains in San Francisco26
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 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 restaurant chains are there based in Atlanta, United States?
RevenueBase identified 58 restaurant chains headquartered in Atlanta, 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 restaurant chains?
New York leads with 92 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (58) and Houston (50).
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 5,826 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 58 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 19, 2026.
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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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