Walking through the doors of a 7/11 on a hot summer day and grabbing a self-serve slurpee should be a memory in everyone's childhood. With over 62,000 franchise locations around the world, it would come as a surprise if you had never stepped foot in one. With that many physical stores around the world, 7/11 tops this list as the graph below shows. Created with information from the Top 100 Global Franchise List from Franchise Direct, there are many fast-food restaurants and other big-name stores and hotels you will know. What may come as a surprise is Subway has more store locations than McDonald's by quite a large margin (7370)! Below is the top ten of this top 40 list of businesses with the most physical store locations in the world and when they were founded:
7-Eleven: 62,105 (1927)
Subway: 44,610 (1965)
McDonald’s: 37,240 (1955)
Starbucks: 29,324 (1971)
Kumon: 25,860 (1958)
KFC: 20,825 (1939)
Burger King: 16,770 (1956)
Dollar General: 15,000 (1939)
Dollar Tree: 15,000 (1953)
Pizza Hut: 15,000 (1958)
