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The 100 most popular Restaurants in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest restaurants in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 238 restaurants tracked in South Africa, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Checkers, Omoda and nandos lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 3.8M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 46k, and the largest, Checkers, reaches around 2.3M people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each restaurants, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa 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 South Africa who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Checkers 2.3M 36.7 62.2% Restaurants
2 Omoda 836k 43.4 91.5% Restaurants
3 nandos 647k 37.2 49.4% Restaurants
4 Babies "R" Us 221k 34.1 81.3% Restaurants
5 Pepes 61k 39.5 47.8% Restaurants
6 Cinnabon 41k 28.4 81.8% Restaurants
7 White Castle (restaurant) 29k 38.2 65.1% Restaurants
8 Waffle House 28k 36.4 74.4% Restaurants
9 Chick-fil-A 23k 35.3 66.5% Restaurants
10 H&M Home 23k 38.4 65.5% Restaurants
11 Whataburger 23k 31.4 65.3% Restaurants
12 Hard Rock Cafe 22k 30.6 60.2% Restaurants
13 Party City 18k 31.4 86.1% Restaurants
14 CiCi's Pizza 17k 37.3 52.5% Restaurants
15 Costa Coffee 16k 30.6 62.1% Restaurants
16 Panera Bread 15k 36.5 74.4% Restaurants
17 Pizza Pizza 15k 29.7 65.1% Restaurants
18 Shake Shack 13k 32.9 61.1% Restaurants
19 Jollibee 12k 32.6 60.7% Restaurants
20 The Melting Pot (restaurant) 12k 29.0 83.2% Restaurants
21 Little Caesars 12k 40.2 47.9% Restaurants
22 Bennigan's 11k 33.4 67.5% Restaurants
23 CoolCat 11k 29.0 86.2% Restaurants
24 McCafé 10k 34.1 60.5% Restaurants
25 Red Ribbon (bakeshop) 10k 48.1 68.6% 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 South Africa 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 South Africa?

Checkers currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.3M people in South Africa.

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