Restaurant franchises is one of the Internet's most searched terms, legends abound about the millions that have been made on a unique restaurant franchise opportunity and everyone can name 20 of the top restaurant chain franchise concepts. The dynamics are much the same today as in the 50s when the first big restaurant franchises took off, many of the great hamburger restaurant franchises starting in the Mid-West. Only recently expanding nationally, the Sonic restaurant franchise (sonic in the Sonic restaurant franchise name referring to the speed of service) started in Oklahoma in 1953 prior to McDonalds hamburgers. The choices are almost endless; sushi, chipotle, oops let's say Mexican (Chipotle Mexican Grill is not a restaurant chain franchise), subs, pizza, hamburgers, Italian food for all tastes and budgets. Chipotle was part of a restaurant chain franchise, but was spun-off recently.

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People eat out more often each generation and there seems to always be a new restaurant franchise opportunity popping up. With 300 new franchise concepts overall each year, there most likely is a new restaurant chain franchise added each week.

For a quick overview and stats on hundreds of restaurant franchises (including subs, hamburgers, pizza, sushi, Italian food, Mexican) browse the site, here is a sampling of just a few:

Carl's Jr.
Apple Spice Junction
W.G. Grinders
Rosati's Authentic Chicago Pizza
Baker Brothers American Deli
5 & Diner
Hardee's

According to the Sonic restaurant franchise web-site, the initial investment to own one Sonic restaurant franchise starts at $710,000, that's a lot of hamburgers. Representative of a sushi restaurant franchise opportunity, a Hanakai Sushi Bar starts at $341,000, not including the Blue Fin, and an example from the chipotle genre (Chipotle does not offer restaurant franchises), a Taco del Mar (del stands for delicious) restaurant chain franchise starts at $146,400. In the subs category, a Blimpie (blimp referencing the generous sized subs) restaurant franchise opportunity starts at $114,020, and within the Italian food category, one Fazoli's (faster-fresher-better Italian food) location starts at $525,000. In the ubiquitous pizza segment, Pizza Pizza, (one of great Canadian restaurant franchises) begins at $200,000.

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