Best Food Service Chains Companies in Michigan, United States
The 41 best Food Service Chains companies in Michigan, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ChickenOut.
Our analysis of 50 Food Service Chains companies
$8.5b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food Service Chains companies in Michigan
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChickenOut Fast food chain in USA | $21M | 286 mo ago | Series B | Doug Jager Founder | 1991 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Mainstreet Ventures Chain of casual dining restaurant offering lunch | $11M | 91 mo ago | Series B | Mike Gibbons CEO & President | 1981 | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | — | — |
| 3 | SaladsUP Chain of limited service restaurant offering salads | $1M | 118 mo ago | Deadpooled | Max Steir Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Greenbush Brewing Chain of breweries | $201K | 92 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | — | — |
| 5 | Daddy's Dough Provider of event catering services | — | 56 mo ago | Funding Raised | Marcqus Wright Owner | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Domino's Pizza Franchised pizza restaurant chain | — | 63 mo ago | Public | — | 1960 | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailNode.js+25 | 2 patents Food preparation and automated topping distribution equipment for pizza production | — |
| 7 | La Casa Del Pollo Loco Provider of catering services for events | — | 71 mo ago | Funding Raised | Idalia Tinoco Owner | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Continental Provides continental foods and event catering services | — | 114 mo ago | Acquired | Matt Hubbard CEO & Board Member | 1989 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+32 | 16 patents Advanced tire rubber compounds and pressure‑loss detection systems for automotive tires. | — |
Top 9 Food Service Chains companies in Michigan
#1
Series B · Ann Arbor, Michigan · founded 1981 · 101 employees$11Mraised▾
Welcome to our distinctive eateries! Each MSVRG restaurant is unique from the décor to the menus. MSVRG fine dining concepts include seafood, steak, Italian, and American cuisines. The MSVRG standard of excellence exemplified at each restaurant is to deliver quality, consistency and enjoyment of each guest’s dining experience.
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$3M
- Jan 2019Series B$11M
#2
Series B · Burton, Michigan · founded 1991 · 106 employees$21.2Mraised▾
Chicken Out is a fast food restaurant chain in the USA. It offers several varieties of fast foods including a wide variety of chicken items, salads, sandwiches, soups, burgers, wraps etc. It has six restaurants located across Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. It claims that the chicken is American Humane Certified and prepares the food without adding artificial additives, chemicals, preservatives or trans fat. The company also has a catering division with caters to various events.
- Oct 2002Series B$21.2M
#3
Deadpooled · Ann Arbor, Michigan · founded 2013 · 16 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Operator of a salad restaurant chain intended to offer a wide variety of salad dishes to customers. The company's restaurants offer various menus such as chicken salad, egg salad, mixed salad, cold-pressed juices, and yogurt, enabling customers to eat healthy food at affordable prices while on the go.
- Oct 2016Seed$1.3M
#4
Seed · Sawyer, Michigan · founded 2011$201Kraised▾
Chain of breweries
- Dec 2018Seed$201K
#5
Funding Raised · Grand Rapids, Michigan · founded 2015—raised▾
Provider of event catering services
- Dec 2021Conventional Debt—
#6
Public · Ann Arbor, Michigan · founded 1960 · 11200 employees—raised▾
Dominos is a pizza restaurant chain and international franchise pizza delivery company. It is the second-largest franchised pizza chain in the United States (after Pizza Hut). The company was sold to Bain Capital in 1998 and went public in 2004. It offers 30-minutes guarantee for orders placed in its stores situated in Colombia, India, Vietnam, Mexico and Turkey. It has approximately 13,000 stores in 75 markets around the world, as of Jan 19. In 2020, the company recorded annual revenues of $4.1 B and a net profit of $491.3 M.
#7
Funding Raised · Grand Rapids, Michigan · founded 2020—raised▾
Provider of catering services for events
- Sep 2020Conventional Debt—
#8
Acquired · Troy, Michigan · founded 1989 · 912 employees—raised▾
Provides continental foods and event catering services
- Feb 2017PE—
- 2014Conventional Debt—
#9
Acquired · Southfield, Michigan · founded 1999 · 2549 employees—raised▾
Chain of casual dining restaurant offering food & liquor
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Tech in Michigan is moving
A read on the academic research around Food Tech in Michigan — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 99 papers.
- Michigan State University81
- University of Michigan12
- University of Michigan–Ann Arbor4
- Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development2
- Michigan Science Center2
- Food security1
- Stock (firearms)1
- Agricultural economics1
- Agriculture1
- Population1
- Food processing1→6
- Agriculture1→6
- Food science1→3
- Postharvest1→3
- Food safety1→3
- Food safety2→11
- Agriculture1→7
- Food security3→8
- Food systems2→6
- Public health1→4
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