Spotlight on chains

Who’s who in the global restaurant landscape Meet the Top 25 WORLDWIDE SYSTEM FOODSERVICE SALES Snapshot of the world’s largest non-U.S. brands 2012 2011 (IN MILLIONS) SALES SALES & WORLDWIDE YEAR-END SYSTEM UNITS RANK RANK CHAIN HEADQUARTERS CONCEPT PARENT COMPANY 2012 2011 2010 7-Eleven: Convenience store known for drinks, snack items like 1 1 7-Eleven Tokyo C-Store Seven & i Holdings Co. Ltd. $17,996.5 $16,288.8 $15,050.3 sandwiches and, in some markets, pasta, dumplings and sausages. 49,085 43,782 39,346 Akindo Sushiro: Known for affordable and conveyor belt, 2 2 FamilyMart1 Tokyo C-Store FamilyMart Co. Ltd. $5,193.5 $5,004.8 $4,772.3 self-serve operation. 13,848 19,719 17,208 Costa Coffee: With its focus on quality, handmade coffee, Costa was the first U.K. coffeeshop to commit to sourcing Rainforest Alli- 3 3 Lawson Tokyo C-Store Lawson Inc. $4,500.0 $4,166.5 $3,930.5 ance Certified coffee. 11,496 10,781 10,280 Dicos: Chinese quick-service chain that specializes in Western- 4 4 Sukiya Tokyo LSR/Asian Co. Ltd. $2,121.3 $2,090.0 $1,900.0 style food like fried chicken, burgers and fries. 1,888 1,748 1,530 Shop: Known for 5 5 JD Wetherspoon Watford, England Bar/Pub JD Wetherspoon PLC $1,873.4 $1,777.3 $1,639.9 serving inexpensive, fast coffee 845 803 755 and snacks like sandwiches and 6 6 Fukuoka, Delivery/Takeaway Plenus Co. Ltd. $1,850.4 $1,713.3 $1,663.4 hot dogs to people on the move. 2,663 2,554 2,479 Enterprise Inns: A leased and tenanted pub company that collects 7 7 Osaka, Japan LSR/Bakery Products Duskin Co. Ltd. $1,613.7 $1,635.1 $1,684.9 rent from its pub operators. Tenants purchase alcohol and other 3,764 3,565 3,378 products from Enterprise. 8 8 Tokyo LSR/Asian Yoshinoya Holdings Co. Ltd. $1,612.3 $1,595.8 $1,632.2 FamilyMart: Popular Japanese convenience store offering groceries, 1,748 1,641 1,580 alcoholic beverages like sake and food such as onigiri, or rice balls. Gusto: Family chain that serves both Japanese and Western foods. 9 19 Dicos Changhua, Taiwan Chicken Ting Hsin International Group $1,547.9 $1,146.6 $952.3 Steaks and are some of the concept’s most popular dishes. 1,596 1,214 1,052 Gyoza no Ohsho: Japanese chain known for its dumplings, large 10 9 Paris Baguette Seongnam, LSR/Bakery Products SPC Group $1,529.1 $1,481.4 $1,330.9 portions and being fast and affordable. South Korea 3,160 3,141 2,612 Honke Kamadoya: A chain of supermarkets housing a popular 11 10 MOS Burger Tokyo LSR/Burger Duskin Co. Ltd. $1,458.3 $1,456.7 $1,451.0 Asian deli-style restaurant. 1,674 1,632 1,609 Hotto Motto: A takeaway chain specializing in freshly pre- 12 12 Costa Coffee Bedfordshire, Coffee Shop Whitbread PLC $1,441.3 $1,309.8 $1,108.6 pared food. It opened its first overseas unit in China in 2010. England 2,433 2,126 1,862 IKEA: Cafeterias in this home-goods store offer traditional Swedish 13 11 Gusto Tokyo Casual Dining Skylark Group $1,432.1 $1,410.6 $1,439.2 food, with some variations, in the 40-plus countries IKEA serves. 1,342 1,330 1,363 JD Wetherspoon: A pub chain with a focus on value, a welcoming en- 14 13 Asahi City, Japan Casual Dining Saizeriya Co. Ltd. $1,363.3 $1,302.2 $1,266.3 vironment and responsible environ- 1,074 1,012 936 mental policies. 15 18 Akindo Sushiro Osaka, Japan LSR/Asian Akindo Sushiro Co. Ltd. $1,261.9 $1,147.2 $956.0 Jollibee: Serving American-style 341 327 294 fast food with Filipino influences, 16 15 Quick Berchem, Belgium LSR/Burger Quick Restaurants S.A. $1,225.0 $1,211.1 $1,294.3 Jollibee specializes in hamburgers and spaghetti. 478 471 469 Lawson: Although this c-store concept got its start in Ohio, it has 17 14 Sunkus Inazawa, Japan C-Store Uny Co. Ltd. $1,199.0 $1,236.1 $1,229.9 thrived in its new home base of Japan, where it sells a number of 2,982 3,118 3,198 prepared foods. 18 21 IKEA Delft, Netherlands Cafeteria Inter Ikea Systems B.V. $1,163.1 $1,100.1 $1,039.8 Matsuya: With operations in Shanghai and throughout Japan, this 347 340 327 restaurant chain serves rice bowls and curry dishes. 19 20 Gyoza no Ohsho Kyoto, Japan Casual Dining Osho Food Service Corp. $1,160.5 $1,115.4 $1,071.5 Ministop: Billing itself as a “refreshment station,” this Japanese 656 612 581 convenience store sells a number of prepared food products, in- cluding sandwiches and bento boxes. 20 16 Honke Kamadoya Kobe, Japan Delivery/Takeaway Honke Kamadoya Co. Ltd. $1,140.7 $1,164.3 $1,228.2 Mister Donut: Like Lawson, this chain was originally headquar- 1,850 1,900 2,010 tered in the United States. It now 21 17 Enterprise Inns Solihull, England Bar/Pub Enterprise Inns PLC $1,134.3 $1,161.0 $1,217.0 serves its doughnuts, muffins, 5,900 6,157 6,800 pastries and coffee mostly in its 22 23 Jollibee Pasig City, LSR/Filipino Jollibee Foods Corp. $1,077.6 $981.5 $921.6 main market of Japan. Philippines 821 769 742 MOS Burger: A burger chain 23 22 Doutor Coffee Tokyo Coffee Shop Doutor Nichires $1,076.8 $1,056.0 $1,082.9 with units throughout East Asia. Its eponymous menu item is a top- Shop Holdings Co. Ltd. 1,123 1,126 1,128 seller. 24 25 Ministop Chiba, Japan C-Store AEON Co. Ltd. $1,043.4 $969.1 $896.8 Paris Baguette: With major penetration in South Korea, this bakery 4,366 4,067 3,720 brand focuses on quality, freshness and customer service. It has international stores in China and the United States. 25 24 Matsuya Tokyo LSR/Asian Co. Ltd. $1,019.2 $970.6 $907.1 Quick: This quick-service burger chain says it has adopted the 991 870 786 American fast-food model for European tastes. SALES TOTALS: $58,034.6 $54,491.3 $51,666.9 Saizeriya: A Japanese chain specializing in family-style Italian cui- YEAR-OVER-YEAR SALES PERCENT CHANGE: 6.50% 5.47% sine. UNITS TOTALS: 116,471 114,805 106,045 Sukiya: This concept specializes in gyudon and donburi, which are YEAR-OVER-YEAR UNITS PERCENT CHANGE: 1.45% 8.26% rice-bowl dishes, as well as curry.

1: CONVERTED APPROXIMATELY 7,000 LOCATIONS IN SOUTH KOREA TO THE CU BRAND IN JUNE 2012 SOURCE: EUROMONITOR INTERNATIONAL Sunkus: A convenience-store chain that also sells onigiri, or rice balls, and bento boxes. NOTE: RANKED CHAINS REPRESENT NON-U.S./CANADA-BASED CHAINS WITH HIGHEST WORLDWIDE SYSTEMWIDE FOODSERVICE SALES, BASED ON ACTUAL : A quick-service chain specializing in gyudon, or rice- RESULTS, ESTIMATES OR PROJECTIONS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2012. SALES FIGURES REFLECT TOTAL PRICE PAID BY CONSUMERS, INCLUDING VALUE Yoshinoya ADDED TAXES, WHERE APPLICABLE. ALL SALES FIGURES ARE IN U.S. DOLLARS, FIXED AT 2012 EXCHANGE RATES. YEARS REPRESENT CALENDAR YEARS. and-beef bowls.

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