Category: Restaurant

DoorDash

About DoorDash, Inc. (NASDAQ: DASH) is the largest on-demand food delivery platform in the United States, headquartered at 303 2nd Street, Suite 800 (South Tower, 8th Floor), San Francisco, California 94107 — in the Rincon Hill neighborhood adjacent to the Embarcadero waterfront and the South of Market (SoMa) district. DoorDash was founded in January 2013 by Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore — Stanford University students who identified hyperlocal logistics as the critical infrastructure gap preventing restaurant delivery from scaling — launching initially under the name “Palo Alto Delivery.” DoorDash holds a commanding 56% share of the US food delivery market as of 2024–2025, ahead of Uber Eats (23%) and Grubhub (17%). The platform connects 37M+ monthly

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Jersey Mike’s Subs

About Jersey Mike’s Subs — legally operating as A Sub Above, LLC (parent entity) and Jersey Mike’s Franchise Systems, Inc. (franchise operations) — is an American submarine sandwich franchise headquartered at 2251 Landmark Place, Manasquan, New Jersey 08736, on the Jersey Shore coast of Monmouth County — approximately 3 miles from the original Point Pleasant, NJ founding location. Jersey Mike’s was founded in 1956 as Mike’s Subs — a small sub shop opened by Mike in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, a Jersey Shore beach community — before being acquired in 1971 by Peter Cancro, then a 17-year-old student who borrowed money from his football coach to buy the shop. Cancro renamed the brand Jersey Mike’s Subs and built it into

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Burger King

About Burger King Corporation is an American multinational fast-food hamburger restaurant chain headquartered at 5707 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami, Florida 33126 — a purpose-built 150,000 sq ft, five-story corporate campus adjacent to Miami International Airport, which Burger King moved into in 2018. Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida as Insta-Burger King by Keith Cramer and Matthew Burns, before being acquired in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton — who rebranded it Burger King and relocated headquarters to Miami. Miami has remained Burger King’s home ever since, making it one of the most iconic corporate presences in South Florida. Burger King is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International, Inc. (NYSE/TSX: QSR) — the Canadian-headquartered

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The Cheesecake Factory

About The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated is an American restaurant company and bakery distributor headquartered at 26901 Malibu Hills Road, Calabasas Hills (also addressed as Agoura Hills), California 91301 — a LEED-certified corporate campus featuring corporate offices, a Learning Center, and one of its two on-site bakery production facilities. The company traces its origins to 1940s Beverly Hills, where Evelyn Overton perfected her original cheesecake recipes; her son David Overton opened the first The Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Beverly Hills, California in 1978, and the company moved its headquarters to Calabasas Hills in 1986 when it opened a 16,400 sq ft bakery production facility there. The company went public on NASDAQ under the ticker CAKE in 1992. The Cheesecake Factory operates

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Arby’s

About Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. is the second-largest sandwich restaurant brand in the world, headquartered at 3 Glenlake Parkway NE, Sandy Springs, Georgia 30328 — a suburb of Atlanta that uses Atlanta mailing addresses. Arby’s shares this campus with Inspire Brands, its parent company, which also owns Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Sonic Drive-In, Jimmy John’s, and Baskin-Robbins under the same roof. Arby’s was founded on July 23, 1964 by brothers Forrest and Leroy Raffel in Boardman, Ohio — the name “Arby’s” derived from the initials “R.B.” standing for Raffel Brothers. The brand built its identity around slow-roasted beef sandwiches and expanded nationally over the following decades before being acquired by Wendy’s/Arby’s Group (later renamed Arby’s Restaurant Group) and eventually becoming

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McDonald’s

About McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world’s largest fast food restaurant chain, headquartered at 110 North Carpenter Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607 — a purpose-built, nine-story, 580,000-square-foot global headquarters in Chicago’s vibrant West Loop neighborhood, constructed on the former site of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios and opened on June 4, 2018. McDonald’s was founded on April 15, 1955 by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois — though the original McDonald’s restaurant was opened in 1940 by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, whose system-driven operations Kroc franchised and eventually purchased outright in 1961. McDonald’s was first headquartered in Chicago’s downtown Loop before moving to Oak Brook, Illinois in 1971, where it operated for 47 years from “McDonald’s

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Panda Express

About Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. — the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn, and Hibachi-San — is the largest Asian-American restaurant company in the United States, headquartered at 1683 Walnut Grove Avenue, Rosemead, California 91770, in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. Panda Express was founded on December 9, 1983 by Andrew Cherng and his wife Peggy Tsiang Cherng, when they opened the first Panda Express in the Glendale Galleria food court in Glendale, California — building on the success of Andrew’s father’s upscale sit-down restaurant, Panda Inn, which had opened in Pasadena in 1973. Andrew was born in China and raised in Taiwan; Peggy was born in Myanmar and raised in Hong Kong — both immigrated

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Sonic Drive-In

About SONIC Drive-In — operating as Sonic Corp. — is the largest drive-in fast-food restaurant chain in the United States, headquartered at 300 Johnny Bench Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, operating as the “Inspire Brands Oklahoma City Support Center.” Sonic was founded in 1953 by Troy Smith Sr. in Shawnee, Oklahoma, when he converted a root beer stand — originally called “Top Hat Drive-In” — into a self-service drive-in with intercoms and carhops, introducing the iconic format that has defined the brand for over 70 years. The name “SONIC” was adopted in 1959. Sonic grew steadily through franchise expansion from its Oklahoma roots, reaching 3,600+ locations by 2018 and generating $4.4 billion in systemwide sales. In December 2018, Inspire Brands

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Raising Cane’s

About Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers (Raising Cane’s Restaurants, L.L.C.) is the fastest-growing quick-service restaurant chain in the United States, with its founding and Louisiana corporate headquarters at 100 North Street, Suite 802, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, and its primary operational headquarters at 6800 Bishop Road, Plano, Texas 75024. Raising Cane’s was founded in 1996 by Todd Graves — who famously raised startup capital by working as a boilermaker in an oil refinery in California and commercial fishing in Alaska — when he opened the first Raising Cane’s near the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, serving a deliberately simple menu: chicken fingers, crinkle-cut fries, coleslaw, Texas toast, and Cane’s Sauce. The “ONE LOVE®” single-focused menu model has become Raising Cane’s

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In-N-Out Burger

About In-N-Out Burger, Inc. is an American privately owned fast-food hamburger chain currently headquartered at 4199 Campus Drive, Suite 900, Irvine, California 92612 — but announced in February 2025 that it will close the Irvine office by the end of 2029, consolidating its West Coast corporate operations to Baldwin Park, California (the city of its 1948 founding, less than a mile from its original restaurant) and opening a new East Coast/eastern territory headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee (expected to open in late 2026). In-N-Out was founded on October 22, 1948 in Baldwin Park, California by Harry and Esther Snyder — making it the first drive-through hamburger stand in California and one of the pioneering fast-food concepts in American history. The chain

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