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Best Food Service Chains Companies in Spain

The 79 best Food Service Chains companies in Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: VICIO.

79companies tracked
$31.6Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
5have raised
Sources & further reading
  • Future Market Insights
  • Mordor Intelligence
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FOOD SERVICE CHAINS × SPAIN

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.

50companies analysed
90%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
1unicorns
2010median founding year
208kcombined LinkedIn audience
51%of audience held by top 3
7companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Food Service Chains companies in Spain

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1VICIO
Chain of limited service restaurant serving burger
$18M38 mo agoSeries AOriol de Pablo Morato
Co-Founder & CEO
2020——
2GoodNews
Internet first brand of coffee
$11M45 mo agoSeries AJan Barthe Cuatrecasas
CEO
2020Cart FunctionalityShopifyShop Pay+181 partnership · 1 expansion
3Healthy Poke
Chain of restaurant serving offering healthy food
$1M38 mo agoSeed—2018WordPressDrupalWordPress Block Editor+36—
4Fudeat
Online marketplace service platform to hire caterers
$828K43 mo agoSeedRaul Marin
Co-Founder
2017Builder.ioSentryGoogle Maps+15—
5Honest Greens
Chain of limited service restaurant serving vegan food
—17 mo agoSeed—2017Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Apple Sign-in+152 job openings · 1 expansion
6AmRest
Multi-brand restaurant franchisees
—54 mo agoPublicHenry McGovern
Founder & CEO
1993DrupalPHPBootstrap+131 internship
7Comess Group
Operator of restaurant chains based in Spain
—65 mo agoLate Stage—1988WordPressZohoMySQL+221 expansion
8Compañía del Trópico
Chain of limited service restaurant
—84 mo agoAcquiredAntonio J. Perez
CEO
—WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+22—

Top 9 Food Service Chains companies in Spain

#1
Series A · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2020 · 55 employees
$18.5Mraised
▾

Chain of limited service restaurant serving burger

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2023Series A$18.5M
Founders & team
Oriol de Pablo MoratoCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
IRIS VENTURES
#2
Series A · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2020 · 130 employees
$10.9Mraised
▾

Internet first brand of coffee. It offers various roaster coffees, coffee blends, coffee decaf and different flavours. It also works on a subscription basis for the customers and has monthly & yearly plans. They also have their own merchandise.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 17k LinkedIn followers — 8.3% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: baristas, Demand Planner
Activity: 2 partnerships · 1 expansions (incl. LA VESTE) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Series A$10.9M
Founders & team
Jan Barthe CuatrecasasCEOAlejandro RieraCo-Founder
Investors
Thomas Meyer, Javier Rubió
Tech stack
Apple PayCart FunctionalityCdnjsCloudflareCore-JsFlickity
#3
Seed · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2018 · 69 employees
$1.4Mraised
▾

Operator of a restaurant chain intended to offer healthy fast food. The company offers different formats for dine-in, takeaway, and delivery as well as ghost brands and dark kitchens, enabling consumers to enjoy delectable food items without compromising on health.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2023Seed$1.4M
Investors
Lanzadera, Buono Ventures
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerCart FunctionalityContact Form 7Core-JsDrupalElementor
#4
Seed · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2017 · 23 employees
$828Kraised
▾

Online marketplace service platform to hire caterers. It allows users to hire caterers by defining the event, comparing and choosing from various caterers, and making payments online. It caters to various occasions such as corporate events, private parties, weddings, birthdays, funerals, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 2.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Seed$828K
  • May 2017Seed$196.7K
Founders & team
Raul MarinCo-FounderJavier MartinCo-FounderBorja BoadaCEO
Investors
Palladium Corporate Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAws Certificate ManagerBuilder.IoCookiebot
#5
Seed · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2017 · 236 employees
—raised
▾

Founded in 2017, Honest Greens is a rapidly growing, fast-casual restaurant group with a mission to improve communities by making healthy living enjoyable, accessible, and affordable through honest food. Daily, throughout our 10 restaurants across Spain and Portugal, our hundreds of staff produce delicious food from products that are ethicallysourced, organic whenever possible, unprocessed and free of artificial preservatives, additives or refined sugars. Over the coming years, we will be scaling our restaurant, geographical and digital footprint to ensure that our customers can interact with our brand wherever they are. Our in-house digital products are driving significant customer and reve

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 21k LinkedIn followers — 10.3% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Jefe/a de Cocina, Jefe/a de Sala
Activity: 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2025Seed—
Investors
Act III Holdings
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssApple Icloud MailApple Sign-In
#6
Public · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 1993 · 3 employees
—raised
▾

Multi-brand restaurant franchisees

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 63k LinkedIn followers — 30.0% of this cohort's audience · 186 engagements/post (4.7× cohort median)
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Henry McGovernFounder & CEO
Investors
Gov.cz, Ihk-Muenchen, Finaccess
Tech stack
AngularApache Http ServerAzureAzure Front DoorAzure MonitorBabel
#7
Late Stage · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 1988 · 68 employees
—raised
▾

Comess Group de Restauración, S.L. owns, operates, and franchises restaurants in Spain and internationally. Its major restaurant brands Lizarran, Cantina Mariachi, Pasta City, Rock & Ribs and China Boom. The company has over 250 restaurants in 23 countries spread across 4 continents. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 12k LinkedIn followers — 5.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 4 expansions announced in 12 mo
Investors
MCH, GED Capital, Oquendo Capital
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContact Form 7CookiebotCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#8
Acquired · Valencia, Valencian Community · 534 employees
—raised
▾

Chain of limited service restaurant

Founders & team
Antonio J. PerezCEOAugusto Méndez De LugoCEO
Investors
Kartesia, H.I.G. Europe
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerBootstrapComplianzContact Form 7Core-JsElementor
#9
Seed · Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana · founded 2017 · 23 employees
—raised
▾

Operator of an urban restaurant chain intended to specialize in providing Japanese food. The company's restaurant chain employs an urban catering concept of takeaway gastronomy and offers a selection of quality and fair-priced boxes and packs prepared daily on the premises by a team of Asian chefs, enabling customers to enjoy authentic Japanese food.

Investors
Lanzadera, Angels Capital
Tech stack
CloudinaryCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle WorkspaceHstsIonos

Funding & investor landscape

$31.6Mtotal disclosed funding
4companies funded
5disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Lanzadera4 rounds
Act III Holdings1 rounds
AmRest1 rounds
Arta Capital1 rounds
Buono Ventures1 rounds
European Capital1 rounds
Finaccess1 rounds
GED Capital1 rounds
Gov.cz1 rounds
Gtak Capital1 rounds

Notable founders

Oriol de Pablo Morato
Co-Founder & CEO · VICIO
Jan Barthe Cuatrecasas
CEO · GoodNews
Alejandro Riera
Co-Founder · GoodNews
Raul Marin
Co-Founder · Fudeat
Javier Martin
Co-Founder · Fudeat
Henry McGovern
Founder & CEO · AmRest
Antonio J. Perez
CEO · Compañía del Trópico
Augusto Méndez De Lugo
CEO · Compañía del Trópico
Prism market signals · Spain · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,384,965 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Food Service Chains coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Spain

How research on Food Technology is moving in Spain

A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,068 Spain-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201120202026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and softening — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 38% → 35% across 2011–2026.
top research entities
  • Universidade de Vigo56
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas52
  • Ministry of Health46
  • Universidad de León42
  • Universitat de València41
leading researchers
Barcenilla, Coral · Cobo-Díaz, José F. · Puente, Alba · Valentino, Vincenzo · De Filippis, Francesca · Allende, Ana · José M. Lorenzo · EFSA BIOHAZ Panel
▲ Breakthroughs68 · 6%
▲ 0%→7% share
0 median citations97% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→7% of field), led by Food science.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food science1→6
Newly emergingFood safety 0→7 · Food packaging 0→5 · European union 0→5
Landmark Sustainable food packaging: An updated definition following a holistic approach · 70 cites
◆ Advancements352 · 33%
▲ 29%→34% share
▲1.2× share momentum0 median citations92% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (29%→34% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety6→66
  • Food processing5→52
  • Food science5→43
  • Shelf life3→36
  • Production (economics)1→33
Newly emergingIngredient 0→18 · Antimicrobial 0→16 · Antioxidant 0→15
Landmark Microbiological food safety assessment of high hydrostatic pressure processing: A review · 385 cites
▼ Concerns371 · 35%
▼ 50%→33% share
▼0.7× share momentum1 median citations86% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (50%→33% of field), led by Food safety.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Food safety9→74
  • Agriculture1→37
  • Food processing10→44
  • Sustainability2→36
  • Food security3→34
Newly emergingFood systems 0→26 · Quality (philosophy) 0→15 · Product (mathematics) 0→15
Landmark The role of life cycle assessment in supporting sustainable agri-food systems: A review of the challenges · 630 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Spain

Where food tech is researched across Spain

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Madrid139 · +0.07
Hot · Risk assessmentAdvancing · Carbon footprintOpportunity · Food contaminantConcern · Health benefits
Valencia67 · +0.23
Hot · FermentationAdvancing · Raw materialOpportunity · AgricultureConcern · Food preservation
Barcelona37 · +0.12
Hot · Redistribution (election)Advancing · Food systemsOpportunity · Corporate governanceConcern · Sustainability
Zaragoza35 · +0.08
Hot · Food wasteAdvancing · Biochemical engineeringOpportunity · Supply chainConcern · European union
Cerdanyola del Vallès32 · +0.09
Hot · Listeria monocytogenesAdvancing · Food scienceOpportunity · Production (economics)Concern · Agriculture
Santiago de Compostela31 · +0.25
Hot · Food packagingAdvancing · Biochemical engineeringOpportunity · Food scienceConcern · European union
Seville23 · +0.18
Hot · Food safetyOpportunity · Food processing
Granada20 · +0.14
Hot · Environmental healthOpportunity · AgricultureConcern · Food safety
Pamplona9 · +0.12
Opportunity · Food processing
Leioa9 · +0.18
Opportunity · Sustainability

Common questions

How many Food Service Chains companies are there in Spain?
Radar tracks 79 indexable Food Service Chains companies headquartered in Spain that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Food Service Chains companies in Spain?
The Food Service Chains companies in Spain on this list have raised a combined $31.6M in disclosed equity funding across 4 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Food Service Chains company in Spain?
VICIO is the highest-funded Food Service Chains company in Spain, with $18.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Food Service Chains companies in Spain are funded?
4 of the 79 Food Service Chains companies in Spain on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Food Service Chains unicorns are there in Spain?
None of the Food Service Chains companies in Spain on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Spain Food Service Chains companies?
The most active investors in Spain Food Service Chains companies on this list include Lanzadera, Act III Holdings, AmRest, Arta Capital, Buono Ventures.
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