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Chick-fil-A has 3,140 U.S. locations, the fewest of any chain in the top 15 fast food rankings for 2026.
It also generates an average of $8.5 million in revenue per location, the highest of any chain in the same ranking.
That’s the highlight of today’s data visualization.
In the chart above, we show the top 15 U.S. fast food chains sized by their total locations, and compared by the average revenue per location in millions of dollars.
It is based on data from StatsPanda Location Intelligence, along with QSR 50 and SEC 10-K filings.
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Subway has 16,177 U.S. locations, the largest fast food footprint in the country by a significant margin.
It also generates $0.49 million in average revenue per location, the lowest figure on record.
For context, a single Chick-fil-A location generates approximately 17.3 times more revenue than a single Subway location.
Subway’s model of low franchise barriers and aggressive expansion has produced the widest footprint and the thinnest per-unit economics in American fast food simultaneously.
The two facts are almost certainly connected.
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