McDonalds

The McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of

hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million
customers daily in 119 countries. The company began in 1940 as a
barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald; in
1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using
production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the
company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently purchased
the chain from the McDonald brothers and oversaw its worldwide
growth.
In 2012, McDonald's Corporation had annual revenues of $27.5
billion, and profits of $5.5 billion.
McDonald's primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken,
french fries, breakfast items( in United States) , soft drinks,
milkshakes, and desserts. In response to changing consumer tastes,
the company has expanded its menu to include salads, fish, wraps,
smoothies, and fruit.

Subway
Subway (stylized as SUBWAY) is an American fast food restaurant
franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches (subs) and
salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc. Subway
is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world, with 40,855
restaurants in 105 countries and territories as of January 1, 2014. It
is the largest single-brand restaurant chain and the largest
restaurant operator globally.
Subway's main operations office is in Milford, Connecticut; five
regional centers support Subway's growing international operations.
The regional offices for European franchises are located in
Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Australia and New Zealand locations
are supported from Brisbane, Australia; the Asian locations are
supported from offices located in Beirut, Lebanon, and Singapore;
and the Latin America support center is in Miami, Florida.

Burger King
Burger King, often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger
fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade
County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as InstaBurger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain. After
Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954, its two

Miami-based franchisees, David Edgerton and James McLamore,

purchased the company and renamed it Burger King

KFC
KFC (the name was originally an initialism for Kentucky Fried
Chicken) is a fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried
chicken and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
(US). It is the world's second largest restaurant chain (as measured
by sales) after McDonald's, with over 18,000 outlets in 120 countries
and territories as of December 2012. The company is a subsidiary of
Yum! Brands, a restaurant company that also owns the Pizza Hut
and Taco Bell restaurant chains.
KFC was founded by Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began
selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin,
Kentucky, during the Great Depression.

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international

franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes
including salad, pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, garlic bread and
desserts.
Corporately known as Pizza Hut, Inc., it is a subsidiary of Yum!
Brands, Inc., the world's largest restaurant company.
As of 2012, there were more than 6,000 Pizza Hut restaurants in the
United States, and more than 5,139 store locations in 94 other
countries and territories around the world.
Pizza Hut was founded on June 15, 1958 by brothers Dan and Frank
Carney in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas. When a friend
suggested opening a pizza parlorthen a raritythey agreed that
the idea could prove successful, and they borrowed $600 from their
mother to start a business with partner John Bender.

Taco Bell
Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in
Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., they serve a
variety of Tex-Mex foods including tacos, burritos, quesadillas,
nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "Value menu" items.
Taco Bell serves more than 2 billion customers each year in more
than 6,500 estaurants mostly in the U.S., more than 80 percent of
which are owned and operated by independent franchisees.

Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell, who first opened a hot dog
stand called Bells Drive-In in San Bernardino, California in 1946
when he was 23 years old. Six years later, he sold the stand and
opened a new one two years later, this time selling tacos under the
name of Taco-Tia. Over the next few years Bell owned and operated
a number of restaurants in southern California including four called
El Taco. Bell sold the El Tacos to his partner and built the first Taco
Bell in Downey in 1962. In 1962, he sold Taco-Tia. Kermit Becky, a
former Los Angeles police officer, bought the first Taco Bell franchise
from Glen Bell in 1964, and located it in Torrance. The company
grew rapidly, and by 1967, the 100th restaurant opened at 400
South Brookhurst in Anaheim. In 1970, Taco Bell went public with
325 restaurants.