RANKED · 864 BRANDS QUALIFY · FDD FILINGS 2016–2026
What are the largest franchises in the U.S.?
Ranked by franchised outlets at the latest fiscal year end, from Table 1 of each brand's latest FDD Item 20 — system size as the franchisor itself discloses it.
Brands are ranked by franchised outlets at the end of the latest fiscal year disclosed in Table 1 of their latest real FDD Item 20, descending. Company-owned outlets are excluded from the ranking figure. Counts reflect each brand's own disclosure year, so fiscal years may differ by a year across rows.
Universe: every brand tracked here whose latest filing is a verified extraction from a public FDD (state regulator portals, chiefly Minnesota CARDS), filed 2016–2026. Sample/seed data never enters a ranking. Each row's “FDD” link is the official document the figure came from; each brand link leads to the full sourced profile. See the site methodology for extraction and confidence rules.
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