Top 100 Biggest Restaurant Chains 2021

Context

This Dataset contains the data compiled by Technomic and reported by Restaurant Business magazine, the top 100 most popular restaurant chains in the United States in terms of the latest 2020 sales which were responsible for three-fourths of the total industry sales growth last year.

Content

The data was obtained from the Restaurant Business magazine website. The columns contain stats such as position of restaurant chains, 2020 U.S. sales, YOY sales change, 2020 U.S. units, YOY unit change, segment and menu types. This data can be found from the website https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/top-500-chains with detailed analysis.

Inspiration

While 2016 was a rough year for chain restaurants, more than half of the industry wealth of $521.9 billion still comes from the Top 500 chains and nearly 94% of those dollars and 93% of those units are represented in the Top 250. These stats have made me curious to find out interesting profit patterns from this dataset.

Dataset Usage

This Dataset can be used to study interesting patterns using various classification techniques and arrive at some exciting conclusions. One can create amazing visualisations using the different columns of the dataset. We can also find out and design an effective business model from the given dataset and take one step closer to your most successful restaurant chain startup ever!