It really hard to choose who is my favorite a lot of thems is very good foods .70 % of the fast food restaurant that show on video is my favorite. 🙂🙂🙂🍔🍔🍟🍟🍕🍕🍕🌮🌮🌯🌯🍩🍩🍩🍦🍦🥓🥓mmmmmm foood restaurants.
If you compare in Puerto Rico alone (3500 sq. mi. or so) there were in 2017 (before Hurricane María) 120-130 Mc Donald's and BK's, but ~ 240 Subways (those are in 2021 barely above 200). So it CAN happen. And in some places Starbucks can be as abundant as Subways.
@xxtine Yeah and alot of times subway will put i buildings that are just big enough for the food line. and because of that size they will put multiple subways in a town. My home town wasn't that big, but we had 3 subways, one of them being in walmart. no other restaurant had more then one in our town
According to McDonald's own site, they only had 1 store in 1954 and didn't start adding franchises until after 1955. This chart has them at 358 locations in 1950. It has me questioning all these videos now.
As I’m not American I don’t know if I should feel surprised or not that Subway overtook McDonald’s, but looking at my country (Australia) we have heaps more subway outlets than McDonald’s outlets and this is because Subway expanded into small towns of like 1,000 or 2,000. There’s even a drive thru subway in a town of 700 people about 2 hours from where I live.
@@alkdjfhgks1919 the original owners were swindled out of thier own company by ray croc " the founder" of mcds. Mcds isn't even a fast food company anymore. It's a real estate company. They buy and own the land the restaurant sits on. So if you don't follow what the say, you lose the lease to the stores name, products and plot of land.
This is locations not actual revenue: McDonald's: $37 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Starbucks: $13 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Subway: $10.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Burger King: $10 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Taco Bell: $9.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
One sunny afternoon, old man McDonald and his friend Orange Julius were sitting around in their pizza hut playing dominos when they decided to go out and get something to eat. They took the subway downtown and went into their favorite Mexican restaurant. They rang the taco bell for service, and Wendy the cashier promptly appeared. She informed the duo, that unfortunately, the restaurant had just run-out of burritos, but some excellent fried chickens had just been flown-in from Kentucky. "Fantasic!" exclaimed old man McDonald, "how much do they cost?" "They're five bucks apiece," Wendy replied. "Oh no," old man McDonald said sadly, " I don't have that much cash on hand. Can I pay with credit?" "No," Wendy explained, "we only accept cash." At just that moment their friend the burger king, who lives on the sun, teleported into the restaurant and said, "Don't worry friends, I have a pocket full of star-bucks!"
It is rather impressive that McDonalds had 358 locations in January of 1950. Considering the fact that the franchise did not get founded until 1955 by Ray Crock with 9 locations.
... that's because they weren't known as Starbucks until around 1998. Before this (you may have heard of this name) they were known as 'The Seattle Coffee Company'. Evidently it's not as succinct as Starbucks, which is probably why the name was changed. It was at this point that the whole 'mega coffee chain' thing started to take off outside of America. This was especially noticeable in the UK where I'm from. In the UK we have big domestic rivals to Starbucks - Costa, and also Cafe Nero.....both of which are huge in the UK, and have held their own against Starbucks. Very surprised Starbucks had yet to overtake McDonald's in the US, as it overtook McDonald's here in the UK many years ago. It's been more successful than McDonald's (in the UK) for over a decade now.
@@starmc26 The combination of the enormous clout that supermarkets now have in the British high street, coupled with the strongly established bug coffee chains has seen a huge chunk taken out of McDonald's profits, here in the UK. Domestically, don't underestimate the power of Tesco - they have pushed McDonald's back for sure. I can't speak for the US, only what's happened here in the UK.
Subway had probably the best fast food marketing campaign in history. They were actually able to convince people that their sandwiches were healthy. One of my old co-workers believe that getting a meatball sub twice a week was MUCH better for his health than getting a BigMac twice a week.
@@peterkovach8655 eh say what ya want about what Jared turned into to or got convicted of, but he's probably the 2nd most recognizable fast food mascot behind Ronald McDonald. And that was before everyone knew him for being a pedo.
There is a subway at every truck stop, nearly every Walmart, almost every gas station, every small town. But I never knew it was bigger than McDonald's.
Horse racing commentary on these videos would be epic “And subway is closing the gap on McDonald’s going down the back stretch, and it’s Subway surprisingly surpassing the great Ronald McDonald to take the lead and pulling away fast and it’s SUBWAY winning the Kentucky Fried Derby!!!”
@@michaelv3340 Ah hah! I thought it seemed familiar, but I was pretty sure I'd never seen any restaurants. Now 'Orange Julius' is the only one I don't think I've ever seen.
It should be noted too that an average Subway serves far fewer customers than an average McDonald’s, so even though Subway has more total locations, their sales are probably much lower. And they’ve become very over saturated with stores cannibalizing sales from one another. It’s started to decline pretty significantly.
That's partially it. For the longest time (and, possibly, still) they were the cheapest & easiest to franchise with. My Dad almost bought into one back in the day, and we were by no means rich...
I have been enjoying and sharing these data time-lapses but now question their creditably. McDonald’s is shown with 358 Franchises in 1950 Jan but Ray Kroc started McDonald’s as we know it today in 1955 April. Even when taking into account the original Dick and Mac McDonald’s, they had 14 franchises in 1948. Please help clarify the discrepancy.
@@Fordry They were just a local Seattle chain in the early 80s and we only considered the Pike Place store as real. Things went south as they expanded since the hand picked, small batch ethos of the original couldn't be replicated on the large scale they've become. I used to love their coffee and now I despise it.
Holy shit I cannot believe I see Hunts Brothers Pizza on this list. My first job was making those pizzas in the back of a convenient store in the middle of NOWHERE Chauncey, Georgia. Idk where this pizza originated but every other convenient store in Georgia sells it. It’s unavoidable. The wings they make are amazing. The pizza is really good when it’s fresh.
Shout-out to those who built up these restaurants and those who continue to work their butts off in them to keep serving fast food. It can't be easy, today's heros are fast food, Amazon warehouse and grocery store workers
I’ve never heard of Orange Julius. Was surprised to see it hold on so long before dropping off. I’m not surprised about Subway and it’s very quick rise. I love Subway and eat there often.
Orange Julius: I used to be one of the top restaurant chains in the world until February 2009 where I was forgotten and now everyone only knows me as the nondairy item at dairy queen
i'm pretty sure they took such a big hit, because during the 2000s a story got released about how their genetically modified their chickens to have no mouths or buttholes... And that spread like wildfire. I remember people talking about it a LOT. I think thaty might have had something to do with the drop
KFC at my city closed for a year or 2 (Maybe even 3) Something happened with raw chicken or the chicken machine wasn't working, maybe I forgot now cuz it's been open back for awhile now.
KFC was big in New Zealand a solid decade before McDonalds and 15 years before Burger King. Having said that the numbers in this video, particularly the early 1950's, are all fake.
Yes, Subway surpassed McDonald's in restaurants because they don't need to cook everything making their restaurant size smaller and able to fit in more places like plazas and inside Walmarts
I'm actually shocked that Orange Julius was once the USA's largest food franchisor. I only see OJ locations in NYC now, and although I spent many years as a trucker, I don't recall seeing Orange Julius places anywhere else.
The actual reason there’s so many subways is that it’s cheap to start a subway, it only costs like 200 000$, where as opening a mcdonalds costs 1-2 million
I do love A&W since I was in Canada. I miss it in Europe. Fun thing is, here in Germany nearby every McDonald's there is a Burger King. I am surprised there are so much less stores.
where i live burger king is considered pretty shitty. but i’ve had mcdonalds when i lived in germany, and your mcdonalds is vastly inferior to American/Canadian mcdonalds, while your burger king isnt half bad
When I came to Germany first time, I thought Burger King is a German name for McDonalds (Ok, I was from USSR, so not very versed in brands, but I just saw McDonalds in US, and Burger King in Berlin looked identical besides the name)
Never heard of Orange Julius before. Also kind of surprised Subway has more locations than Mcdonalds. I know they're super cheap to open compared to most franchises. I also didn't expect Starbucks to be so far below
The amount of people employed by these companies if you count franchises is 410,000... That's more people working for them than many countries have citizens.
The reason Subway is on the top is because you only need chilled buffet servers/display and a microwave and a couple of people to run a Subway. The other franchises on the list such as KFC and McDonald's need much more capital and equipment and an army of workers to run even the smallest shop in the chain.
wow.. this is one of the most interesting ones I have seen. Watching the founder and just always hearing the Mcdonalds story I always assumed they were the of fast food franchises. Its crazy to see how long they were an underdog. Orange Julius really kinda of blows my mind, you never hear of their story. i never would've guessed they were such a prominent franchise for such a long time. you only ever see them in malls anymore, don't know if I've ever actually been to one tho
I recall when you could have a raw egg added to your Orange Julius. (This was 70s/80s) It made it taste kind of richer the way Egg Nog would be parallel to that. Of course they stopped that at some point due to health codes/food safety. Everyone always went there when going to the mall. It was almost a given.
Fun fact: KFC actually didn't start in Kentucky, it started in Utah. Col. Sanders was from Kentucky and had a restaurant there, but the KFC name didn't exist yet. After meeting Pete Harman at a restaurant convention, he introduced Harman to his fried chicken recipe. Harman began selling it in his own restaurant, referring it to as "Kentucky Fried Chicken," which he said was "Finger lickin' good." It was so popular, Sanders began licensing the name and recipe all across the country.
Fun fact: KFC sued Sanders because he trashed their food in interviews because they changed some of the recipes. He also traveled around to locations, walked in, walked behind the counter and started making the chicken himself to teach employees proper way to make it, even though he was just a spokesman and face of the business
You hunt people down and force them to make your pizza for you. Similar to the greatest game but with pizza. Pretty fun. You win prizes for how many people you can hunt down. I made this up.
I was surprised Dominos didn't surpass Pizza Hut. Around here Pizza Huts have largely disappeared and Dominos is definitely the most visible pizza chain. I actually don't even have a Pizza Hut that delivers to me right now.
My only experiences there are super dry fried chicken and biscuits. Also, my parents have commented on them having poor hires. Id honestly prefer Popeyes.
Most of KFC restaurants are franchised and KFC take a cut off the profits from those Franchises. Since KFC was a had a lot of competition with other fast food restaurants so many choose different restaurants during that time. Resulting less people to profit form so many locations failed. Not until 2008 Economic crash, where many of KFC competition started to fail so KFC was able to gain back from it's downfall. IDK, that's the right reason but been watching a lot of Company Man videos so that's the best I can do.
Unlucky In my town of like 7,600 people we have a McDonald's a subway and an Irish pizza chain called Apache Pizza thats our chain stores we used to have a KFC but it was in the outskirts of the town bad location cause it was too rural and out of walking distance for most of the town cause like if your gonna get lunch you ain't gonna walk like 3km out to KFC
Growing up in the 70's I remember that Taco Bells, at least where I lived had a fire going outside their restaurants. It was a raised brick structure that was filled with lava rocks, the fire was from natural gas burners. I'm not sure why they got rid of them but if I had to guess someone complained about them wasting natural gas. I would guess that most people have never even heard of Orange Julius and I can verify that during the 70's KFC was very popular.
I like how A&W was like, hey I made it on the board. Funny thing, they tried to beat the Quater Pounder by selling I believe a 1/3lb for the same price. But people didn't know math and thought it was less.
Not sure what exactly they're measuring, but Subway has a very low startup cost compared to other franchises. They also do. not regulate their stores like McDs does.
I worked for Starbuck in 1988 we were ONLY the 33rd Starbucks in the world when we opened in 1988 in Bellevue, WA . In fact, I don't believe Starbuck expanded outside of Washington state until 1991. If the Starbuck numbers are WAY out of line I now question ALL other numbers.
It's not that amazing. At the end of each year he puts in the restaurant chains with the highest numbers. Then has a computer count up to that number and the bar graphic slides accordingly. He doesn't go month to month like he should
Now its incredibly popular in Japan a Christmas thing that started there was buying KFC except you need to pre order your KFC for Christmas generally a month in advance
I didn’t know Starbucks was around that long. I thought it was a 90’s thing! The first time I went to one was in 1995 when I visited my grandma in Santa Barbara. I had a hot chocolate and thought it was the best in the world. Then I had a few sips of my moms Mocha Frappuccino! I guess Starbucks is my favorite🙂
DQ should be bigger IMO. My local DQ is awesome, it's the only place where the workers don't leave for lunch, they eat there. The McD, KFC and other workers leave for lunch. I don't eat at Subway anymore since the bread and meat scandal.
@@russellpearce3749 This is locations not actual revenue: McDonald's: $37 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Starbucks: $13 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Subway: $10.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Burger King: $10 billion in system-wide U.S. sales. Taco Bell: $9.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
I had no idea Starbucks existed all the way back in the '70s. I never even heard of the place until well after the turn of the century. I'm also surprised that DQ, BK, and Taco Bell aren't closer to McDonald's at the end. They all feel pretty equal to me.
I live in Finland and the first time I saw burger king was 10 years ago, taco bell 5 years ago. They are not that common here. McDonalds has been here always in every city corner and still has at least 10x or even 100x more stores.
I remember going to the mall and my brother getting an Orange Julius. I just thought it was a drink (milk + OJ), I didn't know if was a popular franchise.
I find it fascinating that Orange Julius was the biggest franchise for like 20 years straight. I remember when McDonald's used to be in all of the Walmart stores and then in the late 2000s or early 2010s they switched them into Subways which kinda symbolizes the transition of power there.
Wiki: Orange Julius is an American chain of beverage stores, known for a frothy fruit drink also called an Orange Julius. The chain has been in business since the late 1920s. The signature beverage is a mixture of ice, orange juice, sweetener, milk, powdered egg whites and vanilla flavoring. Most stores are located inside shopping malls.
It’s really upsetting knowing dunk n donuts is one of the biggest fast food chains in the US and yet my local dunk N Donuts shut down in 2012 due to nobody buying the store once the owner retired. The building was abandoned for 8 years later that building was turned into Jersey Mikes
You mean the Philippines they won't do well in countries with no Filipinos I mean really spaghetti that won't do well many countries already produce similar products or even better then jolibee
When I was a kid we had a subway in our town not a good location cause no parking then we went a good while without one but one eventually opened in the shopping center pre covid mcdonalds across the way was so busy and even if it was jam packed people would still pile into it vrs Subway where you'd be lucky to see 4 people inside I think eventually it will collapse
Which is your favorite fast food restaurant?
Burger King ❤️❤️ I visited BK only 2 times but it was pretty good
SOOUBWAY!
only KFC!!!
It really hard to choose who is my favorite a lot of thems is very good foods .70 % of the fast food restaurant that show on video is my favorite. 🙂🙂🙂🍔🍔🍟🍟🍕🍕🍕🌮🌮🌯🌯🍩🍩🍩🍦🍦🥓🥓mmmmmm foood restaurants.
Kfc gang
When I tell you my jaw actually dropped when Subway surpassed McDonald's *and actually held that spot.* That, I did not expect
If you compare in Puerto Rico alone (3500 sq. mi. or so) there were in 2017 (before Hurricane María) 120-130 Mc Donald's and BK's, but ~ 240 Subways (those are in 2021 barely above 200).
So it CAN happen. And in some places Starbucks can be as abundant as Subways.
its around the time Walmart dropped McDonalds and picked up Subway as a restaurant inside their stores, I'm pretty sure. so it makes sense
The concept of „making“ your own food is fucking cool
Even Jared couldn't take that away.
@xxtine Yeah and alot of times subway will put i buildings that are just big enough for the food line. and because of that size they will put multiple subways in a town. My home town wasn't that big, but we had 3 subways, one of them being in walmart. no other restaurant had more then one in our town
I’ve never heard of orange Julius in my life.
1 year update: 4.4k- more likes than the pinned comment lol
If you order a smoothie at dairy queen you might see its logo on the cup
It was the most famous food franchise in North America back in the 60s nowadays it's dead
Must be young, they were big for awhile but kind of disappeared. Seriously good smoothies
The best smoothies money can buy lol. I had no idea they were so old tho.
Usually in malls. they had the best smoothies.
According to McDonald's own site, they only had 1 store in 1954 and didn't start adding franchises until after 1955. This chart has them at 358 locations in 1950. It has me questioning all these videos now.
That’s the McDonald’s franchise business that we know today with the Golden Arches but the original started in 1940
And Starbucks only had 4 stores in 1980....lies!
@@jordanbrock8856 who said that ?
@@stefy82 James B. Lincoln Founder of the FOL project.
Why would you have trusted them to begin with?
I'm shocked at how long it took McDonald's to get going and I'm also shocked that Subway overtook them soooo fast.
As I’m not American I don’t know if I should feel surprised or not that Subway overtook McDonald’s, but looking at my country (Australia) we have heaps more subway outlets than McDonald’s outlets and this is because Subway expanded into small towns of like 1,000 or 2,000. There’s even a drive thru subway in a town of 700 people about 2 hours from where I live.
@@alkdjfhgks1919 the original owners were swindled out of thier own company by ray croc " the founder" of mcds. Mcds isn't even a fast food company anymore. It's a real estate company. They buy and own the land the restaurant sits on. So if you don't follow what the say, you lose the lease to the stores name, products and plot of land.
This is locations not actual revenue:
McDonald's: $37 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Starbucks: $13 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Subway: $10.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Burger King: $10 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Taco Bell: $9.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Sub way is also in almost every walmart and stuff like that
they havent subway in my area is bare mcdonalds always packed.
Subway: Excuse me, sorry excuse me. Coming through.
I love this
Yeah I work at subway
Subway died down a bit in the end
@@ieatdeath-7724 yeah.
*Sooubway
McDonalds: You can’t defeat me
Wendy’s: I know, but he can
**S U B W A Y**
.......THEY HAVE PRETTY CHEAP REQUIREMENTS,THOUGH
.....MCDONALDS IS FAR MORE RESPONSIBLE IN THAT THING
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SOUUBWAY
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One sunny afternoon, old man McDonald and his friend Orange Julius were sitting around in their pizza hut playing dominos when they decided to go out and get something to eat. They took the subway downtown and went into their favorite Mexican restaurant. They rang the taco bell for service, and Wendy the cashier promptly appeared. She informed the duo, that unfortunately, the restaurant had just run-out of burritos, but some excellent fried chickens had just been flown-in from Kentucky. "Fantasic!" exclaimed old man McDonald, "how much do they cost?" "They're five bucks apiece," Wendy replied. "Oh no," old man McDonald said sadly, " I don't have that much cash on hand. Can I pay with credit?" "No," Wendy explained, "we only accept cash." At just that moment their friend the burger king, who lives on the sun, teleported into the restaurant and said, "Don't worry friends, I have a pocket full of star-bucks!"
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Yes,
Nailed it
A moment of silence for orange Julius
I love this
It is rather impressive that McDonalds had 358 locations in January of 1950. Considering the fact that the franchise did not get founded until 1955 by Ray Crock with 9 locations.
Yeah, the McTimeTravel Machine was developed at McDonald's enabling them to do that.
That is the bullshit origin myth mcdonalds tells people on their website. Truth can be found on Wikipedia
@@HunterShows LMAO Unseen gold right here!
I was thinking the same thing. "McDonalds in 1950?, uh?". I guess you exposed 'Data is Beautiful', they're just making stuff up! 😂
The first McDonald’s was opened by Dick and Max McDonald in 1940. Ray Kroc purchased it from them in 1961. Where did you get that information?
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Another surprise was Starbucks being around in the early 80s never heard of them until the 2000s
... that's because they weren't known as Starbucks until around 1998. Before this (you may have heard of this name) they were known as 'The Seattle Coffee Company'. Evidently it's not as succinct as Starbucks, which is probably why the name was changed. It was at this point that the whole 'mega coffee chain' thing started to take off outside of America. This was especially noticeable in the UK where I'm from.
In the UK we have big domestic rivals to Starbucks - Costa, and also Cafe Nero.....both of which are huge in the UK, and have held their own against Starbucks.
Very surprised Starbucks had yet to overtake McDonald's in the US, as it overtook McDonald's here in the UK many years ago. It's been more successful than McDonald's (in the UK) for over a decade now.
@@robtyman4281 wow, not true.
@@starmc26 The combination of the enormous clout that supermarkets now have in the British high street, coupled with the strongly established bug coffee chains has seen a huge chunk taken out of McDonald's profits, here in the UK. Domestically, don't underestimate the power of Tesco - they have pushed McDonald's back for sure. I can't speak for the US, only what's happened here in the UK.
@@robtyman4281 Starbucks was never the Seattle coffee company.
@@robtyman4281 mcd's =19 billion in sales last year.
Subway had probably the best fast food marketing campaign in history. They were actually able to convince people that their sandwiches were healthy. One of my old co-workers believe that getting a meatball sub twice a week was MUCH better for his health than getting a BigMac twice a week.
That was quickly followed by perhaps the worst marketing campaign in fast food history....
@@peterkovach8655 eh say what ya want about what Jared turned into to or got convicted of, but he's probably the 2nd most recognizable fast food mascot behind Ronald McDonald. And that was before everyone knew him for being a pedo.
I still remember the five dollar foot long commercials. I remember they emphasized the color green and had a Godzilla!
Followed by having to make everybody forget about the pedophile spokesman they had for years.
@@marks2807 Subway went downhill wayyyy before that scandal because people started to realize their "healthy" food wasnt healthy at all.
There is a subway at every truck stop, nearly every Walmart, almost every gas station, every small town. But I never knew it was bigger than McDonald's.
Never heard of hunt brothers and sure as hell never heard of orange Julius
Orange julius is now partnered with DQ
Same. Never heard of Dairy Queen either
What! Orange Julius and Dairy Queen are awesome
Edit it’s basically ice cream and smoothies
ElectricDude we’re the hell you live for not knowing Dairy Queen??
Is like Johny Rockets (and they sell Ice cream and hamburgers)
Never heard of Hunt Brother's Pizza either.
I have heard of Orange Julius, just didn't know how big they were at the beginning
Be honest who actually thought subway would be at the top 🤔
Yeah its really at the top lol
It is on a top
It's the cookies
They have a lot of resteraunts but lots or most of them don’t make much of a profit.
I have never been there and I won't, I can make my own food at home cheaper
Horse racing commentary on these videos would be epic
“And subway is closing the gap on McDonald’s going down the back stretch, and it’s Subway surprisingly surpassing the great Ronald McDonald to take the lead and pulling away fast and it’s SUBWAY winning the Kentucky Fried Derby!!!”
Not gonna lie, I have never heard hunt brothers pizza
They're gas station pizza. I've never eaten one, but about half the convenience stores around here sell them.
Same as well as orange Julius 😐
Gas Station Pizza. It's not bad.
I had it once and its pretty good ngo
@@michaelv3340 Ah hah! I thought it seemed familiar, but I was pretty sure I'd never seen any restaurants. Now 'Orange Julius' is the only one I don't think I've ever seen.
The reason for so many Subway restaurants: expansion into smaller towns often bypassed by other fast food chains.
You can also very easily build them into a gas station.
It should be noted too that an average Subway serves far fewer customers than an average McDonald’s, so even though Subway has more total locations, their sales are probably much lower.
And they’ve become very over saturated with stores cannibalizing sales from one another. It’s started to decline pretty significantly.
I agree. Also, don't forget the massive Walmart expansion.
I would like to add in the low franchise costs to open one.
That's partially it.
For the longest time (and, possibly, still) they were the cheapest & easiest to franchise with.
My Dad almost bought into one back in the day, and we were by no means rich...
I have been enjoying and sharing these data time-lapses but now question their creditably. McDonald’s is shown with 358 Franchises in 1950 Jan but Ray Kroc started McDonald’s as we know it today in 1955 April. Even when taking into account the original Dick and Mac McDonald’s, they had 14 franchises in 1948. Please help clarify the discrepancy.
A lot of the data in this had me scratching my head.
Starbucks popping up with hundreds of locations in the 70s is completely wrong.
I thought dick and mac only had 6 locations in total before Ray Kroc stole the company. Guess all the movies are wrong??
I was going to ask what the number meant. Does it mean number of franchises, or $ sales, or what?
@@Fordry They were just a local Seattle chain in the early 80s and we only considered the Pike Place store as real. Things went south as they expanded since the hand picked, small batch ethos of the original couldn't be replicated on the large scale they've become. I used to love their coffee and now I despise it.
Holy shit I cannot believe I see Hunts Brothers Pizza on this list. My first job was making those pizzas in the back of a convenient store in the middle of NOWHERE Chauncey, Georgia. Idk where this pizza originated but every other convenient store in Georgia sells it. It’s unavoidable. The wings they make are amazing. The pizza is really good when it’s fresh.
Everybody gangsta until amazon launches a fast food franchise
Koala hamburger
for real
Or Facebook.
Amazon eats
Delivering straight to your door in the same package with your thongs
As a kid in the 90s my mom would take me to the mall once a month or so for an orange julius and an original cookie. Those were slightly better times.
We have one in our mall too
Hi you are like 21 now
try mid 30s
We had one in our mall too, very small town though, but they have the best fries. We get our smoothies at Jumbo Juice in my generation.
@@kevinwang2723 You live Such a Great life
Shout-out to those who built up these restaurants and those who continue to work their butts off in them to keep serving fast food. It can't be easy, today's heros are fast food, Amazon warehouse and grocery store workers
I’ve never heard of Orange Julius. Was surprised to see it hold on so long before dropping off. I’m not surprised about Subway and it’s very quick rise. I love Subway and eat there often.
Orange Julius: I used to be one of the top restaurant chains in the world until February 2009 where I was forgotten and now everyone only knows me as the nondairy item at dairy queen
I think DQ bought them out
That moment when KFC starts going backwards
F
i'm pretty sure they took such a big hit, because during the 2000s a story got released about how their genetically modified their chickens to have no mouths or buttholes... And that spread like wildfire. I remember people talking about it a LOT. I think thaty might have had something to do with the drop
@Douglas Brown but atleast it’s still in my favorite restaurant list tho
1:21 My man KFC be like let me introduce myself. Then 6:12 KFC is like, get trolled i, back
F
KFC at my city closed for a year or 2 (Maybe even 3) Something happened with raw chicken or the chicken machine wasn't working, maybe I forgot now cuz it's been open back for awhile now.
I honestly would have never thought that Kentucky Fried Chicken was once the world’s largest restaurant chain.
KFC was big in New Zealand a solid decade before McDonalds and 15 years before Burger King. Having said that the numbers in this video, particularly the early 1950's, are all fake.
It makes a lot of sense that there were so many McDonalds in 1950, considering they were founded in 1955
This must be by amount of restaurants because I’m sure McDonald’s brings in more money then subway
Asia their huge their main reason why their is more android users
Yes it is amount of restaurants
@@cyrusk9617 ? Android and food restaurants are two different things! 😂
Yes, Subway surpassed McDonald's in restaurants because they don't need to cook everything making their restaurant size smaller and able to fit in more places like plazas and inside Walmarts
mark rine most subways have like 1 person and McDonalds has like five at all times I think
Mah favorite restaurant is probably my 'mom's kitchen'
I also like to eat in your moms kitchen, after I’m done I usually get something to eat.
Anybody else think that McDonald's food is like so fake
Same!
My fav restaurant is my dads kitchen c:
@k k
I also love your
Moms kitchen and her, of course I’m yet to try the food, but everything else was top notch.
I'm actually shocked that Orange Julius was once the USA's largest food franchisor. I only see OJ locations in NYC now, and although I spent many years as a trucker, I don't recall seeing Orange Julius places anywhere else.
They are in every mall in Canada, but I always thought it is fairly recent 'new age' brand
orange julius was on the list for nearly 60 years. that is what surprised me the most. I knew all the big name places would be there.
That's why I see Subway everywhere.
@@raisy6091 its the cookies
but I don't😂
For real. My town is only 32,000 people. it's 2 and half hours away from the next "Big City" and we have 3 freaking Subways.
I always see a subway empty i never saw a subway with people
@@brayanguel5430 me too.
People: Its just subway
Me: *S O O U B W A Y*
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Biggest takeaway for me... had no idea Orange Julius kept growing until subprime collapse in 2008, and then dropped off a cliff.
Would’ve been really cool to see the logos change over time as well
Everyone: Orange Julius is the best and the most popular
Me: I’ve never heard of it..
I’ve only ever seen them in a random mall foodcourt and usually attached to a Dairy Queen
Same.
@@darcelmccoy because they partnered with DQ
You must be young, it was really popular, but it’s kinda dead
Julius was the OG
Subway: yo we healthy
World: ight
Subway: **zoom**
They really aren't though. None of their shit is fresh. Jimmy John's, Jersey Mike's, or literally any local sandwich shop are infinitely better.
The actual reason there’s so many subways is that it’s cheap to start a subway, it only costs like 200 000$, where as opening a mcdonalds costs 1-2 million
I do love A&W since I was in Canada. I miss it in Europe.
Fun thing is, here in Germany nearby every McDonald's there is a Burger King. I am surprised there are so much less stores.
where i live burger king is considered pretty shitty. but i’ve had mcdonalds when i lived in germany, and your mcdonalds is vastly inferior to American/Canadian mcdonalds, while your burger king isnt half bad
When I came to Germany first time, I thought Burger King is a German name for McDonalds (Ok, I was from USSR, so not very versed in brands, but I just saw McDonalds in US, and Burger King in Berlin looked identical besides the name)
Orange Julius? Damn, that's urban legend.
Credit to orange Julius for starting the fast food franchise even though I’ve never heard of it
Orange Julius and a pint of vodka on your lunch break.
@Huma17 doesnt exist in england, so maybe they live there
White Castle has been around since, I think, the 30s.
@@sbyrstall Steak and Shake was also started in the 30s
@Huma17 bay area，never heard
I always liked Orange Julius original smoothie... I never knew it was so old and big at one point.
I love these kinds of graphic videos.
Props to Pepsi for building kfc, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut
They bought them
Don’t forget Long John Silver’s
Pepsi taking so many L’s at this point
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@@m.dewylde5287 bruh all of em are bomb, wtf are u talking bout
To be honest I just went to Subway and their sandwiches are so delicious
Agreed
It's like quiznos and Jim's fell off the face of the planet lol😂
They are rlly good
At least Jared Fogle (which I call Shitted Down Angry Video Game Nerd) isn't spokesperson there anymore.
I never ate subway
I like these videos, they are interesting. I am curious, are these built in Tableau?
Never heard of Orange Julius before. Also kind of surprised Subway has more locations than Mcdonalds. I know they're super cheap to open compared to most franchises. I also didn't expect Starbucks to be so far below
Thumbnail: Mcdonald figure wearing Burger King hat
**Visible Confusion**
And holding Starbucks
@@oliviaspecht7228 -confusion intensifies-
Hmmmm
With subway sandwich cofused screaming
You mean a mcdonald clown 😑
The amount of people employed by these companies if you count franchises is 410,000... That's more people working for them than many countries have citizens.
You mean to tell me that Orange Julius was the largest fast food restaurant at some point?
The real winner is diabetes
Diabetes ? Lul its cancer
If you live in America... Yes
where's cluckin bell? big smoke would be mad
Don’t forget Burger Shot
That is not even a real restaurant
@@SeismosVideoCorner R/wooosh
“I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda”
Gta 5 be like
The reason Subway is on the top is because you only need chilled buffet servers/display and a microwave and a couple of people to run a Subway. The other franchises on the list such as KFC and McDonald's need much more capital and equipment and an army of workers to run even the smallest shop in the chain.
They're also big because people think it's a healthy option to the others, when often (cough cough footlong meatball) they're not.
This is pure hokum. It's doesn't matter how many stores a chain has, it's sales, Sales, SALES!
This video would be that 'Super Size Me' guy's worst nightmare.
Morgan needs to be self-aware of this.
McDonald's: Nobody can beat me!
Subway: are you sure about that?
2002: McDonald's left the Chat
No problem Jason boy
u mean 2003
Mcdonalds champ 1981-2003 subway 2003 present.
this is the amount of restaurants lol
Subway more like sooubway
wow.. this is one of the most interesting ones I have seen. Watching the founder and just always hearing the Mcdonalds story I always assumed they were the of fast food franchises. Its crazy to see how long they were an underdog. Orange Julius really kinda of blows my mind, you never hear of their story. i never would've guessed they were such a prominent franchise for such a long time. you only ever see them in malls anymore, don't know if I've ever actually been to one tho
I recall when you could have a raw egg added to your Orange Julius. (This was 70s/80s) It made it taste kind of richer the way Egg Nog would be parallel to that. Of course they stopped that at some point due to health codes/food safety. Everyone always went there when going to the mall. It was almost a given.
Fun fact: KFC actually didn't start in Kentucky, it started in Utah. Col. Sanders was from Kentucky and had a restaurant there, but the KFC name didn't exist yet. After meeting Pete Harman at a restaurant convention, he introduced Harman to his fried chicken recipe. Harman began selling it in his own restaurant, referring it to as "Kentucky Fried Chicken," which he said was "Finger lickin' good." It was so popular, Sanders began licensing the name and recipe all across the country.
And boy did he.
He dressed like a plantation slave owner.
Not long afterwards they started charging $10 for two pieces of anorexic chicken and I've never been back since....
Fun fact: KFC sued Sanders because he trashed their food in interviews because they changed some of the recipes. He also traveled around to locations, walked in, walked behind the counter and started making the chicken himself to teach employees proper way to make it, even though he was just a spokesman and face of the business
My first job was at KFC and we had a plastic statue of Col. Sanders in our lobby. It didn't last very long.
2008 recession: happens
Orange Julius: lmao bye y'all
Subway , I just say , has gotten better these days
The best part for me is tapping out 10 years ago and not missing fast food 1 bit.
Me waiting for Popeyes be like:
👁_______________👁
Yeah, where’s Popeyes!
Tbh there still relatively new and niche compared to the likes of mcdonalds
KFC: "Now I'm gonna leave you guys...or maybe not"
90 percent of the KFC's around where I live closed or turned into Popeyes, and Popeyes is 100 percent better. KFC went to shit
@@gnarkiller KFC is for some reason more popular outside of America
Somehow McDonald’s had more than 300 restaurants five years before Ray Kroc started franchising
1:21 KFC really said DEJA VU
Never in my life heard of Hunt Bros Pizza
Same lmao
You hunt people down and force them to make your pizza for you. Similar to the greatest game but with pizza. Pretty fun. You win prizes for how many people you can hunt down.
I made this up.
@@thecensoredmuscle563 well I'm sold haha. you should be a game developer.
Wow. Starbucks was around since the 70s, I didn't know that one. I never heard of Orange Julius.
It’s where your mom used to go to mix her vodka
@@Phil-ui4tm not everyone's mother was a drunk bro speak for yourself lol
@@CATMANJess, *social drinker
*drunk
@@CATMANJess, functional alcoholic
I was surprised Dominos didn't surpass Pizza Hut. Around here Pizza Huts have largely disappeared and Dominos is definitely the most visible pizza chain. I actually don't even have a Pizza Hut that delivers to me right now.
Never had Dominoes and Pizza hut does not really exist in Ireland
Great vid-jo!
Awesome seeing the rise of Subway.
And Taco Bell is my favorite of all fast food restaurants!
What happened to KFC from 1991 to 2009 can anybody explain?
My only experiences there are super dry fried chicken and biscuits. Also, my parents have commented on them having poor hires. Id honestly prefer Popeyes.
Most of KFC restaurants are franchised and KFC take a cut off the profits from those Franchises. Since KFC was a had a lot of competition with other fast food restaurants so many choose different restaurants during that time. Resulting less people to profit form so many locations failed. Not until 2008 Economic crash, where many of KFC competition started to fail so KFC was able to gain back from it's downfall. IDK, that's the right reason but been watching a lot of Company Man videos so that's the best I can do.
ummm no😂
They started losing money and had to sell some of their eateries
Well their food is good but it's still fast food, however chic fil a is the best even tho they're not necessarily fried chicken
The only 2 subways we had in town were closed in the pandemic. I want to cry
Unlucky In my town of like 7,600 people we have a McDonald's a subway and an Irish pizza chain called Apache Pizza thats our chain stores we used to have a KFC but it was in the outskirts of the town bad location cause it was too rural and out of walking distance for most of the town cause like if your gonna get lunch you ain't gonna walk like 3km out to KFC
Growing up in the 70's I remember that Taco Bells, at least where I lived had a fire going outside their restaurants.
It was a raised brick structure that was filled with lava rocks, the fire was from natural gas burners.
I'm not sure why they got rid of them but if I had to guess someone complained about them wasting natural gas.
I would guess that most people have never even heard of Orange Julius and I can verify that during the 70's KFC was very popular.
I remember in the 90s seeing some older Taco Bells with those structures - never knew they used to have fires in them, that's awesome
I like how A&W was like, hey I made it on the board. Funny thing, they tried to beat the Quater Pounder by selling I believe a 1/3lb for the same price. But people didn't know math and thought it was less.
true story
Been there once. Ok
@@TheCrazierz mega bean sprout fart mempingus chachingus POOOOOO LOOOOOOL sh1fely raging cattlespring
@@cattle-vd4tu yes
Subway? There is rarely any line ups when i go there
Asian markets. There huge in many Asian markets.
Not sure what exactly they're measuring, but Subway has a very low startup cost compared to other franchises. They also do. not regulate their stores like McDs does.
Karen Sieradski this is probably based on the amount of locations
Its in locations and honestly i really like subway
Thats because its in store counts and also subway has had a big decline over the past few years causing them to shut down thousands of locations
That explains why we had 2 subways in a small town of like 1500.
6:34 I remember at the time people thought Jared getting arrested would hurt Subway but they stayed strong.
why would it hurt them? they didn't know.
People: The war is between Burger King and McDonald's!
McDonald's and Subway: *Sure kid*
No Wendy's and McDonald's
Wut
Very surprising to see burger king so low through the whole timeline. They never even got close to McDs.
@oscar daniel I agree.
@@shinigami146 they did
Can you show what units use in graphs, because sometimes I have no idea.
Locations I assume but yes there should be a legend. Even if it's obvious
@@swy334 Yeah I agree with you, that would be really interesting to show us the units ^^
yeah
It's the quantity of restaurants
Yes but it's easier to see it
McD's: Ha! Goodbye Mall Orange Juice! I RULE this world!
McD's: Wait. Why do i hear boss music?
Interesting to see the chart, thanks for sharing!
Can we just appreciate the fact that this guy uploads amazing content!
I worked for Starbuck in 1988 we were ONLY the 33rd Starbucks in the world when we opened in 1988 in Bellevue, WA . In fact, I don't believe Starbuck expanded outside of Washington state until 1991. If the Starbuck numbers are WAY out of line I now question ALL other numbers.
It's not that amazing. At the end of each year he puts in the restaurant chains with the highest numbers. Then has a computer count up to that number and the bar graphic slides accordingly. He doesn't go month to month like he should
McDonalds - nobody can ever beat me
Subway - HERE I COME I AM CINNAMON
Dude some of these restaurants have been open for waaaay longer than i thought!
I know, some at 7am 😲
KFC blew up in 09 when they opened up everywhere in Asia.
It is visited by USAmericans when the visit Asia.
Now its incredibly popular in Japan a Christmas thing that started there was buying KFC except you need to pre order your KFC for Christmas generally a month in advance
I didn’t know Starbucks was around that long. I thought it was a 90’s thing! The first time I went to one was in 1995 when I visited my grandma in Santa Barbara. I had a hot chocolate and thought it was the best in the world. Then I had a few sips of my moms Mocha Frappuccino! I guess Starbucks is my favorite🙂
DQ should be bigger IMO. My local DQ is awesome, it's the only place where the workers don't leave for lunch, they eat there. The McD, KFC and other workers leave for lunch. I don't eat at Subway anymore since the bread and meat scandal.
Mcdonald’s: nuh subway don’t take #1 pls
Subway: haha sandwich machine go brrrr
the fact that anybody caught and passed McDonalds is amazing to me.
Re-watch the video I think you'll see something called Subway
@@russellpearce3749 This is locations not actual revenue:
McDonald's: $37 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Starbucks: $13 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Subway: $10.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Burger King: $10 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
Taco Bell: $9.8 billion in system-wide U.S. sales.
I had no idea Starbucks existed all the way back in the '70s. I never even heard of the place until well after the turn of the century. I'm also surprised that DQ, BK, and Taco Bell aren't closer to McDonald's at the end. They all feel pretty equal to me.
I live in Finland and the first time I saw burger king was 10 years ago, taco bell 5 years ago. They are not that common here. McDonalds has been here always in every city corner and still has at least 10x or even 100x more stores.
I remember going to the mall and my brother getting an Orange Julius. I just thought it was a drink (milk + OJ), I didn't know if was a popular franchise.
1:50 and then Mc Donald’s woke up.
3:53
and then after that......
Subway woke up
@@duh_its_aloy6474 yep
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I find it fascinating that Orange Julius was the biggest franchise for like 20 years straight. I remember when McDonald's used to be in all of the Walmart stores and then in the late 2000s or early 2010s they switched them into Subways which kinda symbolizes the transition of power there.
Great point!
It also shows that people would rather eat pork and cake (Subway bread is sugar cake) instead of 100% beef with regular bread.
Wiki: Orange Julius is an American chain of beverage stores, known for a frothy fruit drink also called an Orange Julius. The chain has been in business since the late 1920s. The signature beverage is a mixture of ice, orange juice, sweetener, milk, powdered egg whites and vanilla flavoring. Most stores are located inside shopping malls.
It’s really upsetting knowing dunk n donuts is one of the biggest fast food chains in the US and yet my local dunk N Donuts shut down in 2012 due to nobody buying the store once the owner retired. The building was abandoned for 8 years later that building was turned into Jersey Mikes
Jollibee : *Why are we still here, just to suffer 😭*
They just need to open more stores across the world and not just California 😒
You mean the Philippines they won't do well in countries with no Filipinos I mean really spaghetti that won't do well many countries already produce similar products or even better then jolibee
@@steveboy7302 theres a lot of Filipinos in America but for some reason they put majority of them in California
Can't wait to go to Mars for some delicious Hunt Brothers Pizza!
😂😂😂😂 Right!!!
Starbucks & Subway were practically unheard of here in Ireland up until 10 years ago, now they are in every city and town moreorless
When I was a kid we had a subway in our town not a good location cause no parking then we went a good while without one but one eventually opened in the shopping center pre covid mcdonalds across the way was so busy and even if it was jam packed people would still pile into it vrs Subway where you'd be lucky to see 4 people inside I think eventually it will collapse
No company will ever match the consistency of McDonald's! No matter which one you go to, they all taste the same. It's incredible.
4:11
KFC: go my child defeat McDonalds