Popularity ranking · United States

The 100 most popular Restaurants in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest restaurants in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 336 restaurants tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Chick-fil-A, Texas Roadhouse and Panda Express lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 168M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 9.8M, and the largest, Chick-fil-A, reaches around 63M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each restaurants, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

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

Audience size

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

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. 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 United States, 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 United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Shake Shack 12M 38.2 50.8% Restaurants
27 Hot Topic 10M 29.6 71.2% Restaurants
28 Tropical Smoothie Cafe 9.9M 37.3 65.5% Restaurants
29 Zaxby's 9.8M 35.8 52.2% Restaurants
30 Golden Corral 9.6M 41.4 57.3% Restaurants
31 Carl's Jr. 9.3M 36.9 48.1% Restaurants
32 Jollibee 8.7M 38.3 57.5% Restaurants
33 Din Tai Fung 7.8M 38.8 65.3% Restaurants
34 Red Robin 7.7M 40.7 50.6% Restaurants
35 Hardee's 7.6M 35.9 50.7% Restaurants
36 White Castle (restaurant) 7.1M 37.6 52.7% Restaurants
37 Sweetgreen 6.7M 41.4 56.7% Restaurants
38 Del Taco 6.6M 38.5 51.5% Restaurants
39 Party City 6.1M 41.6 73.5% Restaurants
40 CiCi's Pizza 5.8M 34.1 50.1% Restaurants
41 Noodles & Company 5.7M 36.4 62.5% Restaurants
42 Papa Murphy's 5.5M 39.3 57.3% Restaurants
43 Checkers 5.2M 36.0 61.3% Restaurants
44 Cheddar's Casual Café 5M 42.5 63.6% Restaurants
45 Church's Chicken 5M 36.5 50.0% Restaurants
46 Steak 'n Shake 5M 37.7 47.1% Restaurants
47 Pollo Campero 4.9M 36.2 47.5% Restaurants
48 Ruth's Chris Steak House 4.6M 43.7 57.7% Restaurants
49 Bonefish Grill 4.4M 41.2 56.3% Restaurants
50 Carrabba's Italian Grill 4.2M 46.6 60.2% 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 United States 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 United States?

Chick-fil-A currently leads with an estimated audience of 63M people in United States.

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