Fast Food

Restaurant Chains That Expanded Too Fast And Paid The Price By Jet Burnham Oct. 29, 2025 2:40 pm EST

The grand opening of a popular restaurant's new location can be quite a spectacle: lots of balloons, lots of hype, and lots of people willing to wait in line for hours for their first taste of the food they've only heard about, or to see if the food still tastes as good as they remember from when they ate there in their childhood or on vacation.

According to restaurantdata.com , there are 550-650 restaurant grand openings every week in the U.S. For some, it's the first location; for others, it's the 1,000th. While some restaurants grow at a slow pace, others seem addicted to the thrill of rapid expansion. But there is such thing as too much of a good thing, and rest

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