Russia: top restaurant groups by unit numbers 2021 | Statista (2024)

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Leading restaurant groups in Russia in 2021, by number of establishments. Street and quick service restaurant group Marcon had the most units in Russia, at over 1.1 thousand as of October 2021.

Compass Group and Starbucks are the two largest restaurant companies as of 2023. McDonald's is the largest fast-food chain. Yum! Brands is based in China and is the largest quick-service restaurant company in the world.

McDonald's locations are on top of the world

Once again, though, the behemoth that is McDonald's cannot be beat. It doesn't have the highest number of locations in the U.S., but McDonald's does have the highest number of locations globally, presumably because it exists in more markets than both Starbucks and Subway.

Given fast food's major market presence, it is no surprise to see its value share increase in the face of Russian financial turmoil. In 2011, before recession really hit Russia, fast food held a 47% value share of total consumer food service sales. This figure rose to 54% in 2015.

The number of McDonald's stores in Russia exceeded 850 as of February 2022, steadily increasing over the observed period.

The five largest foodservice groups in Europe — McDonald's, Compass Group, Sodexo, Elior, and Yum! Restaurants International — account for nearly half the sales of the region's top 50 foodservice companies. McDonald's and Yum! are in the QSR segment, but the other three focus on the contract segment.

McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant chain.

McDonald's was the most valuable fast food brand in the world with an estimated brand value of about 191 billion U.S. dollars in 2023.

In 2022, McDonald's was the leading chain restaurant in the United States in terms of sales. The world renown burger chain amassed over 48.6 billion U.S. dollars in sales that year, which was around 20 billion more than Starbucks.

Subway is the largest and the fastest-growing restaurant chains in the world with 42,998 restaurants in 112 countries and territories. Subway fast-food restaurant in the US alone has about 25,549 outlets.

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Street and quick service restaurant group Marcon had the most units in Russia, at over 1.1 thousand as of October 2021. Yum!, which operates several restaurant brands, such as KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, ranked second, followed by Coffee Like and McDonald's.

Shutdown, replacement and aftermath

McDonald's has a 15-year option to buy its former restaurants back from the new Russian chain. Alexander Govor replaced the brand with Vkusno i tochka ("Simply Delicious"). The restaurants offer replacements for all menu items, but most are rebranded.

Brands Exit from Russia Complete. April 17, 2023 – Yum! Brands has completed its exit from the Russian market by selling its KFC business in Russia to Smart Service Ltd., a local operator led by Konstantin Yurievich Kotov and Audrey Eduardovich Oskolkov.

While Burger King remains open for business in Russia, its biggest rival McDonald's, which corporately owned most of its restaurants, has managed to leave the country. KFC's parent company Yum! Brands has also sold more than 100 restaurants to a local operator in Russia, which were rebranded as Rostic's in April.

Did Starbucks leave Russia? yes, they closed all 130 cafes and exited the Russian market. See 5/23/2022 on US Top News and Analysis article “Starbucks will exit Russia after 15 years, closing 130 licensed cafes.”

Flynn Group - Largest Franchisee Operator in the US.

So, for a chef with such a lengthy and decorated career, how many restaurants does he actually own? As of January 2023, Ramsay has 58 restaurants across a variety of names.