The QSR 50 Pizza/Pasta Segment [1]
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CiCi's Pizza [3], Competition [4], Consumer Trends [5], Denise Lee Yohn: QSR's Marketing Guru [6], Domino's [7], Emerging Concepts [8], Fast Casual [9], Growth [10], Ingredients & Dayparts [11], Little Caesars [12], Papa John's [13], Papa Murphy's [14], Pizza [15], Pizza Hut [16], Sam Oches [17]
In 2012, Chick-fil-A surpassed KFC to become the best-selling chicken chain, Jimmy John’s and Five Guys joined the billion-dollar-brands club, and fast-growing Wingstop and Moe’s Southwest Grill climbed into the limited-service industry’s upper echelon for the first time. McDonald’s, meanwhile, maintained its stranglehold on the No. 1 position, nearly tripling runner-up Subway’s domestic sales. Dig deep into the data driving the quick-service and fast-casual restaurant industries with this year’s QSR 50.
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Rank [28] | QSR 50 Rank [29] | Segment [30] | Chain [31] | 2012 Sales [32] | 2012 Average Sales [33] | 2012 Franchise Units [34] | 2012 Company Units [35] | 2012 Total Units [36] | 2011 Unit Change [37] |
| 1 | 8 | pizza/pasta | Pizza Hut | $5,666.0 | $883.0 | 5,757 | 452 | 6,209 | 156 |
| 2 | 13 | pizza/pasta | Domino's Pizza | $3,500.0 | $710.2 | 4,540 | 388 | 4,928 | 21 |
| 3 | 17 | pizza/pasta | Papa John's | $2,402.4 | $829.0 | 2,483 | 648 | 3,131 | 130 |
| 4 | 22 | pizza/pasta | Little Caesars* | $1,684.0 | $465.0 | 3,175 | 550 | 3,725 | 207 |
| 5 | 33 | pizza/pasta | Papa Murphy's | $738.0 | $574.9 | 1,270 | 59 | 1,329 | 79 |
| 6 | 46 | pizza/pasta | CiCi's Pizza* | $505.0 | $915.0 | 540 | 10 | 550 | -23 |
