Restaurants

11 Booming Chain Restaurants You're Going To See Everywhere In 2026

While the chain restaurant status quo may be in a pretty perpetual state of change, some particularly noteworthy shakeups hit the industry in 2025. Among 13 chain restaurants that lost a bunch of locations in 2025 , for example, were heavy hitters like Denny's and TGI Fridays. Even McDonald's struggled, experiencing its largest drop in revenue since the pandemic, in addition to less traffic than expected after the long-awaited return of the Snack Wrap. It's safe to say, then, that the business of running a chain restaurant changed more significantly in 2025 than in the past few years prior. Such times of change, however, provide unique opportunities for fresh faces and underdogs to ascend to new heights. Ac

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