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The 100 most popular Restaurants in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest restaurants in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 219 restaurants tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Barbeque Nation, Global Desi and Cafe Coffee Day lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 7.5M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 127k, and the largest, Barbeque Nation, reaches around 3.2M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each restaurants, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Barbeque Nation 3.2M 32.3 37.4% Restaurants
2 Global Desi 2.6M 28.8 64.6% Restaurants
3 Cafe Coffee Day 1.7M 25.8 38.0% Restaurants
4 Costa Coffee 501k 29.4 34.4% Restaurants
5 Papa John's Pizza 465k 28.7 32.9% Restaurants
6 Hard Rock Cafe 255k 28.9 29.0% Restaurants
7 Whataburger 208k 26.3 39.3% Restaurants
8 Sizzler 204k 35.4 41.2% Restaurants
9 The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf 198k 30.9 35.0% Restaurants
10 Checkers 164k 27.1 40.8% Restaurants
11 Pizza Pizza 148k 26.7 40.6% Restaurants
12 nandos 138k 26.5 43.5% Restaurants
13 Jollibee 136k 27.6 50.7% Restaurants
14 McCafé 122k 37.7 32.5% Restaurants
15 Dairy Queen 120k 31.1 25.6% Restaurants
16 Little Caesars 117k 30.4 35.3% Restaurants
17 Buffalo Wild Wings 110k 29.4 45.2% Restaurants
18 Chick-fil-A 110k 28.1 36.9% Restaurants
19 Waffle House 109k 30.0 42.0% Restaurants
20 White Castle (restaurant) 94k 29.0 30.7% Restaurants
21 Chipotle Mexican Grill 85k 30.1 40.1% Restaurants
22 Freshii 71k 27.2 72.0% Restaurants
23 Shake Shack 69k 27.2 43.2% Restaurants
24 Panera Bread 63k 29.3 47.2% Restaurants
25 Wagamama 51k 26.4 48.4% Restaurants

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular restaurants compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each restaurants by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest restaurants in India?

Barbeque Nation currently leads with an estimated audience of 3.2M people in India.

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