Publicly traded restaurant brands that monetize a portfolio of branded units through some mix of company-operated sales (CMG, TXRH, SBUX U.S. company stores) and franchised royalties / supply-chain margins / advertising-fund pass-throughs (MCD, YUM, QSR, DPZ, WING). All names share the same operating engine: a comparable / same-store sales metric run against a unit base that is itself growing thro
| Ticker | Company | Their metric | Period | YoY | A year ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CMG | Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. | New restaurants with a Chipotlane | FY2026-Q2 | +70.2% | +2.2% |
| NDLS | Noodles & Company | Company-Owned Comparable Restaurant Sales | FY2026-Q2 | +9.9 pts | +0.2 pts |
| VVV | Valvoline Inc. | Total System-Wide Stores | FY2026-Q3 | +15.6% | +8.3% |
| BROS | Dutch Bros Inc. | Total System Shop Count | FY2026-Q2 | +17.4% | +14.4% |
| CAVA | CAVA Group, Inc. | Total CAVA Restaurants | FY2026-Q2 | +19.6% | +16.7% |
| BLMN | Bloomin' Brands, Inc. | Outback Steakhouse comparable restaurant sales | FY2026-Q2 | +2.0 pts | -0.5 pts |
| GTIM | Good Times Restaurants Inc. | Bad Daddy’s Same-Store Sales | FY2026-Q3 | -0.9 pts | -2.6 pts |
| SHAK | Shake Shack Inc. | System-Wide Sales | FY2026-Q2 | +13.8% | +13.7% |
| YUMC | Yum China Holdings, Inc. | Restaurant margin (Q4) | FY2026-Q2 | +0.0 pts | +0.6 pts |
| KRUS | Kura Sushi USA, Inc. | Restaurants at the end of the period | FY2026-Q3 | +19.7% | +20.6% |
| PZZA | Papa John's International, Inc. | Total System-Wide Restaurants | FY2026-Q3 | +0.1% | +1.5% |
| SBUX | Starbucks Corporation | International store count | FY2026-Q3 | +2.5% | +5.1% |
| TXRH | Texas Roadhouse, Inc. | Comparable restaurant sales at company restaurants | FY2025-Q3 | -2.4 pts | +0.3 pts |
| PLAY | Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. | Dave & Buster's Branded Stores | FY2026-Q3 | +1.1% | +5.4% |
| WING | Wingstop Inc. | Total system-wide restaurants | FY2026-Q2 | +15.5% | +19.8% |
| DRI | Darden Restaurants, Inc. | Darden continuing-operations company-owned restaurants | FY2026-Q4 | +2.0% | +6.3% |
| FWRG | First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. | Company-Owned Restaurants | FY2026-Q2 | +10.4% | +15.7% |
| WEN | The Wendy's Company | Global Systemwide Sales | FY2026-Q2 | -8.1% | -0.8% |
| MCD | McDonald's Corporation | International Operated Markets comparable sales | FY2026-Q2 | -2.5 pts | +5.1 pts |
| EAT | Brinker International, Inc. | International franchise same-store sales | FY2026-Q4 | -5.0 pts | +3.1 pts |
| SG | Sweetgreen, Inc. | Net New Restaurant Openings | FY2026-Q2 | -77.8% | +125.0% |
A side-by-side appears only when three or more companies report the same metric in the same unit under their own definition. Companies are listed in value order, not ranked: whether a higher number is better is not asserted.