Behind the Scenes Franchise Times’ Restaurant 200 The industry’s leading multi-unit, multi-concept franchisees Sponsored by Franchise Times’ Restaurant 200 Restaurant Rank and File Once you’ve read our latest ranking, file it away for future reference. These are the top restaurant franchisees in the country—and there’s a lot more to them than you see here. R emember the days when franchise insiders referred to the relationship between franchisors and franchisees as parent and child? Well no more. We’ve been saying for years that franchisees are becoming more sophisticated and often have operations as large, or larger, than some franchisors. Now we have proof. Once a year our sister publication, the Restaurant Finance Monitor, collects data on the largest restaurant franchisee operations in the U.S. An analysis of their findings by restaurant reporter Jonathan Maze starts on page 32. W hen c ompa r i n g ou r R e st au r a nt 200—“The industry’s leading multi-unit, multi-concept franchisees”­—with Franchise Times’ Top 200 franchise companies, we discovered some interesting trends. The largest U.S. restaurant franchisee, NPC International in Pittsburg, Kansas, has revenues that are slightly higher than Hooters’ 2009 sales as reported in our Top 200 last October. (We’re currently in the process of compiling this year’s list.) Hooters’ $992 million in sales earned it the 79th spot on our franchisor list— ahead of other well-known brands, such as UPS/MailBoxes Etc. and Krispy Kreme. NPC’s revenue was $934 million for 1,136 Pizza Hut restaurants. Sure, Hooters had fewer restaurants earning almost the same revenues, less than half as many at 452. But nobody can argue with the cash register. No. 2 and No. 3 on the franchisee list had revenues that equaled those of the franchisors ranked No. 93 and No. 123, respectively on the Top 200 franchisor list. Apple American Group, based in San Francisco had $671 million from 269 Applebee’s. And No. 3, Bridgeman Foods/ERJ Dining, the largest multi-concept franchisee on the list, had revenues of $508 million from its Chili’s and Wendy’s operations. The company, based in Louisville, Kentucky, operates 161 Wendy’s and 124 Chili’s in multiple states. The smallest of the multi-unit franchisees ranked—Nos. 190 through 200—fall in the $36 million to $40 million revenue range. No. 200, H&K Partners reach its numbers with 37 KFCs and 7 YUM multi-units and is based in Milwaukee. This is somewhat like comparing apples to oranges, because our Top 200 franchisor ranking includes all franchises, not just restaurants. However, in the top 25, 12 are restaurants and two are convenience stores, with some hotels sprinkled in. Imagine what our franchisee list would look like if we had non-restaurant franchisees included. We can only imagine that franchisors might wish they could go to the “kids” to see if they could borrow the keys to the car. So in answer to that other question: “Yes, you can make money in franchising.” —Nancy Weingartner About Franchise Times’ Restaurant 200 R esearch for this feature was conducted by Franchise Times’ sister publication, The Restaurant Finance Monitor. Questionnaires, phone surveys, and in some cases, a review of public documents, such as annual reports and 10Ks, was used to collect data. However, most of the Top 200 companies provided us with their data. Our report ranks companies according to revenue generated by a company’s franchised restaurants. If the company also operates a restaurant concept not franchised, or is the nue, we settled in favor of the company with franchisor of another concept, we did not the most units. include that figure in the overall revenue or unit If you believe your company might make total. In cases where an acquisition took place this list and we’ve missed you (or you know of during the year, we derive pro-forma revenues another company that should be listed), contact Abbi Nawrocki at 612- 767-3200 to be included in calculating the company’s ranking. For companies that did not respond to our in the 2012 ranking. survey, we confirmed the number of units operThis listing, which also runs in The Monitor, ated by the company, and then estimated the is combined with a Second 200 report prepared revenue based on reported chain averages. In by Technomic. The entire Top 400 report can the case of a tie in the amount of total reve- be purchased by visiting RestFinance.com. Wells Fargo Restaurant Finance provides financing to corporate restaurant brands, large multi-unit restaurant franchisees, experienced commercial real estate investors who own restaurant properties, private equity firms, and other investors in restaurant concepts. Our loan products include: syndicated corporate senior financing, fixed and floating rate term loans, acquisition facilities, sale-leaseback financing, bridge/development financing, working capital revolvers, and interest rate swaps. www.wellsfargo.com/restaurants. 24 August 2011 The industry’s leading multi-unit, multi-concept franchisees Franchise Times’ Restaurant 200: TOP 25 # Company # Company Revenue Units* Concepts Revenue Units* Concepts 9 Briad Group (The) $328,187,000 Livingston, NJ 70 42 Pizza Hut 10 Pilot Travel Centers $308,147,000 Knoxville, TN 152 52 Subway Wendy’s Applebee’s 11 Pepper Dining Charlotte, NC 106 Chili’s 12 Doherty Enterprises $286,875,000 Allendale, NJ 61 25 Applebee’s Panera Bread 13 Heartland Food Corp. Downers Grove, IL $270,400,000 256 Burger King 14 ADF Companies $268,200,000 Fairfield, NJ 286 12 Pizza Hut Panera Bread 15 JIB Management* $245,000,000 Fremont, CA 215 29 Jack in the Box Denny’s 16 AmRest Atlanta, GA $242,000,000 103 Applebee’s 17 United States Beef $241,844,000 Tulsa, OK 277 5 Arby’s Taco Bueno 1 NPC International Pittsburg, KS $934,807,000 1,136 2 Apple American Group San Francisco, CA $671,188,000 269 3 Bridgeman Foods$508,000,000 /ERJ Dining, LLC Louisville, KY 161 Wendy’s 124Chili’s 4 Harman Management Corp. $416,362,500 Los Altos, CA 139 119 KFC KFC/A&W 5 Covelli Enterprises $400,000,000 Warren, OH 176 5 Panera Bread O’Charley’s 6 Strategic Restaurants$380,377,000 Acquisition Corp. San Ramon, CA 277 18 Burger King TGI Friday’s 7 Boddie-Noell Enterprises $372,718,000 Rocky Mount, NC 337 9 Hardee’s Moe’s 8 Carrols Restaurant Group Syracuse, NY 305 Burger King $357,073,000 $300,000,000 TGI Friday’s Wendy’s * Total Units Own the Hottest Brand in the Country! • 29 Consecutive Same Store Sales Growth Quarters* • $1,275,058 Average NET Sales* • $264,805 Average EBITDA* • Executive Team with over 60 years combined restaurant experience • Ratio of average investment to first year gross sale 1:3* Winner at the 2010 National Buffalo Wing Festival *This advertisement is not an offering of a franchise. An offering can be made only by prospectus. We only sell franchisees in states where our offering is registered.. Figures reflect averages for lowest and highest sales and EBITDA as submitted by our full service franchised restaurants operating in 2010 as published in item 19 of our April 2011 Franchise Disclosure Document. 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Crestview Hills, KY 79 Applebee’s 21 Quality Dining, Inc. $229,000,000 Mishawaka, IN 114 48 Burger King Chili’s 40 T-Bird Restaurant Group 63 La Jolla, CA Outback Steakhouse 22 Thomas and King $223,432,000 Lexington, KY 89 6 Applebee’s Carino’s 41 Caspers Company Tampa, FL 51 McDonald’s 23 Sunshine Restaurant Partners North Miami Beach, FL $220,000,000 153 IHOP 42 REE Inc Beaumont, TX 73 McDonald’s 24 DavCo Restaurants, Inc. Crofton, MD $217,607,000 156 Wendy’s 25 K-MAC Enterprises $215,535,000 Ft. Smith, AR 144 22 Taco Bell KFC/Taco Bell Franchise Times’ Restaurant 200: TOP 26-200 # Company Units* Concepts $185 Million to $210 Million $125 Million to $150 Million 43 Jan Companies (The) Cranston, RI 97 2 Burger King Popeyes 44 Hamra Management Company Springfield, MO 47 Panera Bread 28Wendy’s 45 Pacific Bells Inc Vancouver, WA 81 4 Taco Bell Taco Bell/LJS 46 Casual Restaurant Concepts Tampa, FL 49 Applebee’s 47 B & B Consultants Las Cruces, NM 144 48 Metro Corral Partners Orlando, FL 27 49 Restaurant Management Co. Wichita, KS 130 Pizza Hut 16 Long John Silvers 50 Wisconsin Hospitality Group Wauwatosa, WI 82 40 Pizza Hut Applebee’s Sonic 26 D. L. Rogers Corp. N Richland Hills, TX 198 Sonic 27 JRN, Inc. Columbia, TN 174 14 KFC KFC/Taco Bell 28 Interfoods of America, Inc. Miami, FL 144 21 Popeyes Burger King 29 Fugate Enterprises Wichita, KS 205 70 Pizza Hut Taco Bell 147 Wendy’s Carlisle Corporation Memphis, TN Wendy’s Cedar Enterprises, Inc. Columbus, OH 51 97 30 31 Southern California Pizza Company Corona, CA 222 Pizza Hut 52 Apple Gold Group Raleigh, NC 73 6 Applebee’s Burger King 32 Sun Holdings, LLC Irving, TX 72 45 53 BR Associates, Inc. Jasper, IN 104 Long John Silver 33 Wendy’s 54 Friendly Franchisees Corporation64 Carl’s Jr. La Palma, CA 18Denny’s 55 Apple-Metro, Inc. 34 Harrison, NY Applebee’s 56 Sizzling Platter, Inc. Murray, UT 92 22 Little Caesars Sizzler 57 Pizza Properties, Inc. El Paso, TX 40 Peter Piper Pizza 38 Burger King Popeyes Burger King $150 Million to $175 Million 33 Valenti Management Tampa, FL 112 17 34 Rose Group (The) 59 Newtown, PA 4 26 Wendy’s Wendy’s Chili’s Applebee’s Corner Bakery Café 35 Border Foods Companies Golden Valley, MN 90 74 Taco Bell Pizza Hut 36 T.L. Cannon Management Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 61 Applebee’s August 2011 Golden Corral $100 Million to $125 Million 58 Palo Alto, Inc. Denver, CO 73 39 Taco Bell Pizza Hut The industry’s leading multi-unit, multi-concept franchisees # Company Units* Concepts 59 Carolina Restaurant Group 83 Charlotte, NC Wendy’s 60 Quality Restaurant Concepts 58 Birmingham, AL Applebee’s 61 Apex Restaurant Mgmt., Inc. Plano, TX 94 53 LJS/A&W KFC 62 SSCP Management Inc. Dallas, TX 39 18 Applebee’s Burger King 63 Fourteen Foods Bloomington, MN 119 Dairy Queen 64 Wendy’s of Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO 74 9 Wendy’s Golden Corral 65 PJ United Birmingham, AL 123 66 Pennant Foods Knoxville, TN 91 Wendy’s 67 By the Rockies Lakewood, CO 84 15 Hardees Carl Jr. 68 Desert De Oro Foods, Inc. Kingman, AZ 77 40 Taco Bell Pizza Hut 69 Scarbrough Management San Ramon, CA 69 5 Burger King Chili’s 70 Concord Hospitality, Inc. Lincoln, NE 42 4 Applebee’s Village Inn 71 Strang Corporation Cleveland, OH 15 30 Applebee’s Panera Bread 72 Falcon Holdings, LLC 156Church’s Westlake, TX Chicken 73 Pacific Island Restaurants, Inc. Honolulu, HI 50 38 Pizza Hut Taco Bell 74 ACG Texas, L.P. Richardson, TX 61 IHOP 75 Frisch’s Restaurants Inc. Cincinnati, OH 35 Golden Corral 76 RPM Pizza Gulfport, MS 135 Domino’s Pizza 77 QK, Inc. Scottsdale, AZ 77 5 Papa John’s Denny’s Del Taco # Company Units* Concepts 78 42 McEssy Investment Co. Lake Forest, IL McDonald’s $90 Million to $100 Million 79 Tar Heel Capital Boone, NC 75 Wendy’s 80 Southern Multifoods, Inc. Jacksonville, TX 55 17 Taco Bell Taco Bell/KFC 81 Luihn Food Systems, Inc. Morrisville, NC 33 24 KFC Taco Bell 82 Treadwell Enterprises, Inc. Springfield, MO 84 3 KFC Ruby Tuesday 83 Daland Corporation Wichita, KS 95 8 Pizza Hut Sonic 84 MRCO, LLC 68 Brentwood, TN 15 Taco Bell Taco Bell /Pizza Hut 85 BurgerBusters Inc. Virginia Beach, VA 81 11 Taco Bell Pizza Hut 86 Paradigm Investment Group San Diego, CA 88 1 Hardee’s TGI Friday’s 87 Austaco, Inc. Austin, TX 77 Taco Bell 88 Bistro Group (The) Cincinnati, OH 31 5 TGI Friday’s McAlister’s 89 Morgan’s Foods, Inc. Cleveland, OH 72 9 KFC KFC/Taco Bell 90 V&J Holding Inc. Milwaukee, WI 65 36 Pizza Hut Burger King 91 Southern Bells, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 63 5 Taco Bell KFC $80 Million to $90 Million 92 CLP Corporation Homewood, AL 93 AppleCreek Management Co., Inc. 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Multi 98 Missoula Mac Inc Poynette, WI 42 McDonald’s 99 CFRA, Inc. Concord, NC 46IHOP $70 Million to $80 Million 28 Units* Concepts McDonald’s $60 Million to $70 Million 118 Trigo Hospitality St. Joseph, MI 29 20 Pizza Hut Panera Bread 119 Apple Core Enterprises, Inc. Minot, ND 24 2 Applebee’s Village Inn 120 Gala Corporation Costa Mesa, CA 18 7 Applebee’s Famous Dave’s 121 JDK Management Co. Bloomsberg, PA 40 3 Perkins Quaker Steak 122 First Sun Management Corp. 51 Clemson, SC Wendy’s 100 Emerald Foods, Inc. Columbus, OH 74 Wendy’s 123 J&B Restaurant Partners Ronkonkoma, NY 33 8 Friendly’s Taco Bell 101 Patterson & Associates Inc. Louisville, KY 52 Wendy’s 124 Team Schostak Family Restaurants Livonia, MI 59 3 Burger King Del Taco 102 Meritage Hospitality Group Grand Rapids, MI 69 3 Wendy’s O’Charley’s 125 B & G Food Enterprises, LLC Morgan City, LA 40 6 Taco Bell KFC 103 Mancha Development Company Corona, CA 36 27 Burger King Denny’s 126 High Plains Pizza 75 Liberal, KS Pizza Hut 104 Stanton & Assoc., Inc. Jackson, MI 62 Wendy’s 127 Janus 1 Unlimited Inc 31 Houston, TX McDonald’s 105 Duke & King Acquisition Corp Burnsville, MN 87 Burger King 128 Carisch, Inc. 71 Naples, FL Arby’s 106 Goldco, Inc. Atlanta, GA 63 Burger King 129 Apple J, LP 32 Greenville, SC Applebee’s 107 AB Enterprises Redding, CA 13 11 Burger King Applebee’s 130 Bros. Management Inc. 26 Knoxville, TN McDonald’s 108 Benton Properties, Inc. Springdale, AR 65 Sonic 131 Hallrich Inc. 81 Kent, OH Pizza Hut 109 Restaurant Management Group Kingsport, TN 42 39 Hardee’s Little Caesars 110 FourCrown, Inc. Oakdale, MN 58 111 Austin Sonic Inc Austin, TX 18 8 Applebee’s Famous Dave’s Wendy’s 133 Dolan Foster Enterprises, LLC 62 Pleasanton, CA Taco Bell 64 Sonic 134 Oerther Foods Inc 25 Orlando, FL McDonald’s 112 Platinum Corral LLC Jacksonville, NC 30 Golden Corral 113 KBP Foods Inc. Overland Park, KS 49 16 KFC Taco Bell 114 MarLu Investment Group Sacramento, CA 44 Church’s Chicken 21 Jack in the Box 115 Retzer Resources, Inc. Greenville, MS 30 McDonald’s 116 WKS Restaurant Corp. Lakewood, CA 53 3 El Pollo Loco Denny’s August 2011 132 William Tell, Inc. Salt Lake City, UT 135 RGT Management, Inc. Collierville, TN 53 12 Taco Bell LJS/LAW 136 Ansara Restaurant Group, Inc. Farmington Hills, MI 22 5 Red Robin Big Boy $50 Million to $60 Million 137 Romulus, Inc. 34 Phoenix, AZ IHOP 138 Apple Corps, L.P. 25 Witchita, KS Applebee’s The industry’s leading multi-unit, multi-concept franchisees # Company Units* Concepts 139 Hunt Enterprises Inc 27 Hauppauge, NY McDonald’s 140 Original Bread, Inc. 31 Wichita, KS Panera Bread # Company Units* Concepts 148 West Quality Food Service Inc Laurel, MS 70 4 KFC Rally’s/Checkers 149 Cutchall Management Company Omaha, NE 16 7 Sonic Famous Dave’s 141 Kades Corporation Pasadena, TX 29 McDonald’s 150 DiPasqua Enterprises Winter Park, FL 96 Subway 142 DORO, Inc. Eau Claire, WI 58 5 Hardee’s Taco John’s 151 Verlander Enterprises El Paso, TX 10 10 Applebee’s Village Inn 143 Cotti Foods Corp Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 59 Taco Bell 152 Fowler Foods Inc. Jonesboro, AR 37 15 KFC KFC/Taco Bell 144 Den-Tex Central, Inc. 58 San Antonio, TX Denny’s 153 Howley Bread Group, Ltd. Westlake, OH 21 Panera Bread 154 Mirabile Investment Corp. (MIC) Memphis, TN 45 5 Burger King Popeyes 145 J.S. Ventures, Inc. Wichita, KS 25 Applebee’s 146 LDF Food Group, Inc. Wichita, KS 42 Wendy’s 155 Koning Restaurants International Miami, FL 62 Pizza Hut 147 KC Bell Inc. Wichita, KS 52 Taco Bell 156 DRM, Inc. Omaha, NE 71 Arby’s * Total Units Have an appetite for success? Proudly serve the world’s finest ice cream and desserts. ownashop@icecream.com • 612.337.3314 • www.haagendazs.com/franchiseinfo www.facebook.com/haagendazsshops www.twitter.com/haagendazsshops ©HDIP, Inc. August 2011 29 Currents / Times’ Franchise a constant Restaurant ebb and 200 flow of news # Company Units* Concepts # Company 157 Parrish Foods Dallas, TX 25 McDonald’s 179 J & S Restaurants 42 Hardee’s Cleveland, TN 158 Bailey Company, LLP (The) Golden, CO 56 1 Arby’s Good Times 180 Northcott Company Chanhassen, MN 159 Whit-Mart, Inc. 25 Charleston, SC 160 LeHigh Valley Restaurant Group Allentown, PA 21 4 Perkins Houlihan’s Applebee’s 181 RREMC, LLC 36 West Palm Beach, FL Denny’s 17 Red Robin 182 PFC/Classic Dining Crystal Lake, IL 161 OCAT, Inc. Modesto, CA 37 1 162 RLC Enterprises, Inc. Northbrook, IL 31 1 Denny’s Ruby Tuesday Taco Bell YUM! Multi 183 RedKing Foods, LLC 36 Minnetonka, MN Burger King 47 9 Taco Bell KFC 184 Primary Aim, LLC 29 Zanesville, OH Wendy’s 163 S-Group Companies 33 Sandusky, OH Wendy’s 185 VKC Group 78 Sugar Land, TX Subway 186 R & L Foods, Inc. San Antonio, TX $40 Million to $50 Million 164 Miller Apple Limited Partnership Flint, MI 21 2 Applebee’s Sonic 165 BMW Management, Inc. 23 Temecula, CA Sizzler 166 Frandeli Group, LLC 66 Orange, CA Papa John’s 167 U.S. Restaurants, Inc. 35 Blue Bell, PA Burger King 168 RoHoHo, Inc. Charleston, SC 55 3 Papa John’s Jersey Mike’s 169 Lal Restaurant Group Queens, NY 37 6 Popeyes Dunkin’ Donuts 170 Restaurant Partnership of Central Texas 21 Houston, TX Applebee’s 171 MetzGroup Dallas, PA 12 3 TGI Friday’s Krispy Kreme 172 Shamrock Co, Inc. Hinsdale, IL 25 12 30 KFC/Taco Bell 187 L & K Hodge 64 McKinleyville, CA Papa Murphy’s 188 Apple Investors Group Chino Hills, CA 27 17 Applebee’s IHOP 189 Pizza Hut of Southern Wisconsin 34 Madison, WI Pizza Hut $36 Million to $40 Million 190 Diversified Restaurant Holdings 21 Southfield, MI 191 Ryan Restaurant Corp. Billings, MT 7 6 192 Bartlett Management Services Clinton, IL 35 8 Buffalo Wild Wings Applebee’s Famous Dave’s KFC YUM! Multi 193 Rawson Foodservice Inc 21 Rocky Hill, NJ Wendy’s Taco Bell KFC 194 WMCR Co. Alpena, MI KFC Taco Bell 173 Wendco Group 38 Pensacola, FL Wendy’s 195 Tricorp Food Services, Inc. 12 Chesterfield, MO TGI Friday’s 174 C&R Management Co 26 West Jordan, UT McDonald’s 196 Century Fast Foods Inc. 33 Los Angeles, CA Taco Bell 175 Thomas 5 Ltd. 33 Dublin, OH Wendy’s 197 Wendy’s of Montana 23 Billings, MT Wendy’s McAlister’s Deli Pinkberry 198 Waterloo Restaurant Ventures, Inc. 12 Vancouver, WA 176 Saxton Group (The) Dallas, TX 27 4 40 2 Romano’s Macaroni Grill 177 Brodersen Management Corp. 34 Popeyes Chicken Glendale, WI 199 C & P Restaurant Company, LLC Macon, GA 12 6 Captain D’s Cheddar’s 178 Bullard Restaurant Group Raleigh, NC 200 H & K Partners Milwaukee, WI 37 7 KFC YUM! Multi 20 Burger King 8 Smithfield Chicken * Total Units 30 Units* Concepts August 2011