Growth for the Mexican category moderated slightly in 2025, with total sales of $23.4 billion from 13 franchises ranked on the Franchise Times Top 400. That’s a 5.3 percent increase over 2024 but a dip from the 6.7 percent increase the category generated from 2023 to 2024.
Americans 65 and older own a sizable portion of the country’s homes at more than 34 percent.
After closing on its sale to c-store company RaceTrac last fall, Potbelly finished 2025 strong with $601 million in system sales across 468 restaurants in the United States. That’s a 7.2 percent sales increase over 2024’s $560 million and a 6.1 percent unit increase year over year.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe announced this year its next phase of growth would be headlined by experienced, multi-brand franchisees. The smoothie giant found just that in New York-based operator Aurify Kingstar, which owns 57 Five Guys stores, 32 Wingstops and 69 Le Pain Quotidien locations and a…
Remodeled restaurants and improvements to the Whopper and nuggets were joined by technology enhancements to help drive Burger King’s global 7.6 percent systemwide sales growth during the third quarter of 2026.
Home services are a family affair for Dawn and Bill Hester and Pam and Jay Griffith, who are Empower Brands franchisees.
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Ever wonder how consumers feel about your franchise? Editorial staffers Laura Michaels, Andy Tellijohn, Matthew Liedke, Alyssa Huglen and Emilee Wentland trade off checking out three brands in a different genre each month and report back.
Krish Patel was about 3 years old when his family moved from Philadelphia to upstate New York, where his father opened what is now the Philly Bar.
The team at The Toasted Yolk, a 58-unit southern brunch franchise, always envisioned a smaller-sized spinoff.
In her monthly "Grab Bag" column, Editor in Chief Laura Michaels asks the tough questions—What superhero power w…
Fast-casual Mediterranean concept Little Greek Fresh Grill is tapping into nontraditional growth as it looks to …
For nearly 20 years, Krystle Molite has held several roles with the Goddard School, from teacher to director and…
TGI Fridays is restarting unit growth at home while setting up additional development abroad. As part of a new s…
Actions taken by one of the largest Wendy’s franchisees and its franchisor are setting up a legal battle that co…
Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream keeps things simple.
Tim Hortons has been trying to establish a foothold in the United States for decades.
Zaxbys, the legacy chicken brand with more than 1,000 locations, signed its largest nontraditional development d…
When Andrew Bick and Larissa Reis developed ProteinHouse in 2012, they prided themselves on carving a new space …