Coalition of Franchisee Associations

August 12, 2015

Chipotle Vs. McDonald's

Which fast food chain is really the best?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is that average unit volume of Chipotle is 10.5M? C'mon.

Richard Adams said...

That's not average volume but the publication's estimate of the "value of each location". I assume they divided the market cap of the company by the number of locations. That calculation would have little to do with the average unit volume or the resale of the individual business.

Anonymous said...

Same thing I would sell today if I could get an average sale price of $2.9mil.

Richard Adams said...

Feel free to check my decimals here - MCD market cap divided by 36,000 stores is only $2.6 million per store but if you divide the enterprise value (resale value) of the entire McDonald's system, which as of today is over $107 Billion, it comes to $2.97 million per store.