I find the chart info way more interesting. Subway has nearly double the stores yet makes a sixth per store what McDonalds does.

Subway, Chick-fil-A, and Dunkin’ own zero of their own stores, 100% franchised. Dairy Queen owns 2 out of 4406 stores which is an oddly low number. Chipotle and In-n-Out are the only chains to own all their stores; White Castle owns all but 3 of their 375 . Starbucks owns about 60% of theirs and has nearly 900 more stores than McDonalds.

Panera makes almost as much per store as McDonalds, despite being the polar opposite business .

Whataburger, In-n-Out, Raising Canes, and Chick-fil-A are all above McDonalds on per-store revenue, with CFA absolutely clobbering the rest at over a million per store more than anyone else on the list.

Pizza Hut has 1600 more stores than Dominos yet makes $250k less per store. Little Caesar’s makes nearly the same per store as Pizza Hut at $874k per store (to PH’s $878k) , although having 3000 less stores. Don’t buy into the pizza game, it’s not very lucrative compared to other choices.

Speaking of franchise industries not to get into besides pizza, ice cream is dead last on the list with Baskin Robbins bringing in a sad $240k per store. Auntie Anne’s is in bad shape as well at $538k per store. Firehouse Subs, Jersey Mike’ s, Jimmy John’s, all of which are doing better than Subway (who is dead last on savory foods, above just Baskin Robbins) but none of which are doing as well as any donut chain, so stay out of the sandwich game. Stick with chicken or burgers it seems, maybe buy a Taco Bell or Del Taco as those do fairly well .