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Bloomberg ranked fast-food companies based on total number of establishments.
The number of fast-food stores were collected for the following brands: KFC, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Popeyes, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Domino's Pizza, Papa John's, Quiznos, Subway, Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins, Haagen-Dazs, Dairy Queen, Krispy Kreme and Auntie Anne's. For this ranking, global emerging consumer markets were defined as countries with more than $2,000 GDP per capita, 2 percent GDP growth and 2 percent household-consumption growth, all using rounded averages from 2000 to 2010. Excluded were countries with populations of fewer than 5 million as of 2010, countries classified as developed by either the FTSE or MSCI and countries with fewer than a total of 50 of the stores considered. Data were latest available.
Bloomberg, companies, World Bank, International Monetary Fund
July 23, 2012
Rank | Brand | Total stores | U.S. stores | Stores outside the U.S. | Stores in global consumer emerging markets | U.S. stores as a percentage of total | Stores outside the U.S. as a percentage of total | Emerging-market stores as a % of total | Emerging-market stores as a % of non-U.S. stores |
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1 | Subway | 37,016 | 25,000 | 12,016 | 2,987 | 68% | 32% | 8% | 25% |
2 | McDonald's t | 33,510 | 14,098 | 19,412 | 5,942 | 42% | 58% | 18% | 31% |
3 | KFC | 17,401 | 4,780 | 12,621 | 8,701 | 27% | 73% | 50% | 69% |
4 | Starbucks t | 17,243 | 10,821 | 6,422 | 2,074 | 63% | 37% | 12% | 32% |
5 | Pizza Hut | 13,782 | 7,600 | 6,182 | 2,820 | 55% | 45% | 20% | 46% |
6 | Burger King | 12,512 | 7,212 | 5,300 | 1,470 | 58% | 42% | 12% | 28% |
7 | Dunkin' Donuts | 10,083 | 7,015 | 3,068 | 1,354 | 70% | 30% | 13% | 44% |
8 | Domino's Pizza | 9,742 | 4,907 | 4,835 | 1,593 | 50% | 50% | 16% | 33% |
9 | Baskin-Robbins | 6,711 | 2,457 | 4,254 | 1,279 | 37% | 63% | 19% | 30% |
10 | Wendy's | 6,594 | 5,900 | 694 | 186 | 89% | 11% | 3% | 27% |
11 | Dairy Queen | 6,000 | 4,800 | 1,200 | 931 | 80% | 20% | 16% | 78% |
12 | Taco Bell | 5,817 | 5,620 | 197 | 50 | 97% | 3% | 1% | 25% |
13 | Quiznos | 4,000 | 3,440 | 560 | 116 | 86% | 14% | 3% | 21% |
14 | Papa John's | 3,853 | 3,001 | 852 | 207 | 78% | 22% | 5% | 24% |
15 | Popeyes | 2,035 | 1,687 | 348 | 151 | 83% | 17% | 7% | 43% |
16 | Auntie Anne's | 1,128 | 878 | 250 | 172 | 78% | 22% | 15% | 69% |
17 | Haagen-Dazs | 900 | 200 | 700 | 310 | 22% | 78% | 34% | 44% |
18 | Krispy Kreme | 694 | 234 | 460 | 209 | 34% | 66% | 30% | 45% |