There are a number of ways to measure the largest restaurant businesses in the world. If you go by the number of locations, privately-owned Subway has been dethroned in recent years. According to the company's website, it had under 38,000 stores worldwide, which puts its fast-food nemesis Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) on top with more than 50,000 stores in operation.
But let's divvy out the prizes based on a different metric: total sales. Based on this measure, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is far and away the biggest of the big among restaurant stocks.
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The World's 5 Largest Restaurant Stocks in 2021