directories & online services
The Directory of Restaurant & Fast Food Chains in Canada provides you with information on chains with 3 or more locations in Canada and includes restaurants with plans to expand.
Frequency
- print directory is published annually in the month of December
- online service database is uploaded in October (retail chains) and December (restaurant & fast food chains)
Statistics
- Breakdown of number of chains in each category
- Breakdown of number chains with locations in each province
Each listing includes:
- corporate name and head office address
- phone, fax, e-mail and web address
- ownership: private, public, co-op
- stock symbol and trading
- sales (categories: LT $1 million, $1-5 million, $5-10 million, $10-50 million, $50-100 million, GT $100 million)
- number of employees
- total locations in Canada
- total locations in USA
- parent company name and address
- contacts names and titles including president, leasing, marketing, information systems, operations and merchandising
- leasing policy (handled by head office or uses agent), leasing agent name and contact
- chain name
- total locations in Canada
- year first location opened in Canada
- ownership (example: corporate - 1, franchised - 10)
- average sales per sq.ft. per year (categories: LT $100, $100-250, $250-500, $500-1,000, GT $1,000)
- total square footage of all locations
- menu types/specialty (Chinese, pub fare, etc.)
- service types (buffet, cafeteria, catering, delivery, drive-thru, sit-down, table service, take-out)
- average seats per location
- average prices for breakfst, lunch and dinner
- liquor license type (beer, wine, liquor)
- expansion planned within next 12 months
- location types and average sizes (eg. shopping centres - 2,000 sq.ft., power centres 6,000 sq.ft.)
- provincial locations, projected openings, closing and remodelings
- location addresses (exclusive to Online subscribers)
The online service provides you with a combined database of retail and foodservice chains in Canada. You can search, sort, print and download key contacts. The contact list can then be imported into your own contact management system. You can easily filter the online database of chains. (Note: non-contact information is not included in downloaded file).
Click here to view search page which shows different criteria available to filter the database.
