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Prism Finance USA · comparison snapshot

Top Eating Places Stocks in USA

Five U.S.-listed eating places names, read through one evidence stack: market path, official filing history, profitability, readiness, Prism attention and industry context.

Snapshot: 28 August 2026Not investment adviceRanked by Prism readiness
Readiness leaderMcDonald's · 60
Strongest available pathAramark · +134.4%
Widest latest marginMcDonald's · 31.9%
Companies compared5 · U.S.-listed
01 · Readiness ranking

Five companies, one comparable score

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Readiness #1MCD · NYSE

McDonald's

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Eating Places

Founded 1940Oak Brook$187.53B market cap
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60Moderate
Snapshot price$265.0as of page date
Monthly-close return+9.5%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$26.89BMCDONALDS CORP
Net margin31.9%FY2025
P/E snapshot21.5xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention42.4%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+15.8%
$0$9.0B$17.9B$26.9BFY2021: $23.223BFY2022: $23.183BFY2023: $25.494BFY2024: $25.920BFY2025: $26.885B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 3.7%
52-week position6% through range
$259.9$341.8
News mentions71.8K
Community mentions0partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents36
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal64/100
Management stability90/100
Market position59/100
Capital-event signal39/100
Innovation pulse42/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 23 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 56 M&A involvements, 44 asset-acquisition events and 65 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 156 lifetime product-launch events, 17 in the latest 360 days, and 12 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #2CMG · NYSE

Chipotle

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Eating Places

Founded 1993Newport Beach, California$48.12B market cap
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54Moderate
Snapshot price$38.03as of page date
Monthly-close return-2.2%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$11.93BCHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC
Net margin12.9%FY2025
P/E snapshot34.6xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention29.8%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+58.0%
$0$4.0B$8.0B$11.9BFY2021: $7.547BFY2022: $8.635BFY2023: $9.872BFY2024: $11.314BFY2025: $11.926B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 12.1%
52-week position68% through range
$28.04$42.82
News mentions50.5K
Community mentions68.3Kpartial coverage
U.S.-scope patents8
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal69/100
Management stability55/100
Market position3/100
Capital-event signal76/100
Innovation pulse47/100
Management signal

Leadership churn is flagged elevated; 19 key-person events were recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 1 M&A involvements, 0 asset-acquisition events and 18 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 45 lifetime product-launch events, 12 in the latest 360 days, and 38 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #3YUM · NYSE

YUM! Brands

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Eating Places

Founded 1997Louisville$41.99B market cap
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50Moderate
Snapshot price$153.9as of page date
Monthly-close return+15.0%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$8.21BYUM BRANDS INC
Net margin19.0%FY2025
P/E snapshot19.0xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention1.3%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+24.8%
$0$2.7B$5.5B$8.2BFY2021: $6.584BFY2022: $6.842BFY2023: $7.076BFY2024: $7.549BFY2025: $8.214B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 5.7%
52-week position50% through range
$137.3$170.1
News mentions2.2K
Community mentions0partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents0
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 4/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal71/100
Management stability90/100
Market position48/100
Capital-event signal20/100
Innovation pulse14/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 18 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 25 M&A involvements, 14 asset-acquisition events and 18 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 14 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 16 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

Recent available records contain 1 lawsuit, 0 regulatory and 0 layoff events across their stated windows.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #4DRI · U.S. exchange

Darden

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Eating Places

Founded 1938Orlando, Florida$24.48B market cap
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46Cautious
Snapshot price$215.6as of page date
Monthly-close return+40.1%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$12.08BDARDEN RESTAURANTS INC
Net margin8.7%FY2025
P/E snapshot20.2xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention21.5%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+67.8%
$0$4.0B$8.1B$12.1BFY2021: $7.196BFY2022: $9.630BFY2023: $10.488BFY2024: $11.390BFY2025: $12.077B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 13.8%
52-week position77% through range
$169.0$229.8
News mentions36.5K
Community mentions0partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents90
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal62/100
Management stability90/100
Market position28/100
Capital-event signal20/100
Innovation pulse13/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 32 M&A involvements, 13 asset-acquisition events and 2 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 12 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #5ARMK · NYSE

Aramark

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Eating Places

Founded 2005Philadelphia, Pennsylvania$15.34B market cap
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38Cautious
Snapshot price$58.18as of page date
Monthly-close return+134.4%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$18.51BAramark
Net margin1.8%FY2025
P/E snapshot41.3xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention5.0%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+53.0%
$0$6.3B$12.6B$18.9BFY2021: $12.096BFY2022: $16.327BFY2023: $18.854BFY2024: $17.401BFY2025: $18.506B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 11.2%
52-week position84% through range
$35.07$62.65
News mentions8.5K
Community mentions1.3Kpartial coverage
U.S.-scope patents16
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 7/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal65/100
Management stability65/100
Market position29/100
Capital-event signal20/100
Innovation pulse0/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 20 M&A involvements, 5 asset-acquisition events and 20 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 3 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

Recent available records contain 0 lawsuit, 2 regulatory and 0 layoff events across their stated windows.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

02 · Side-by-side

The comparisons that change the picture

Every bar preserves its own meaning. Price return, revenue scale, profitability and attention are deliberately not blended into one recommendation.

Available monthly-close return

Dated window printed on each company card; not a forecast.

Aramark
+134.4%
Darden
+40.1%
YUM! Brands
+15.0%
McDonald's
+9.5%
Chipotle
-2.2%

Latest revenue

USD billions, official filing scope shown on each company card.

McDonald's
$26.89B
Aramark
$18.51B
Darden
$12.08B
Chipotle
$11.93B
YUM! Brands
$8.21B

Latest profit margin

Company-card labels distinguish continuing-operations and net-income scope.

McDonald's
31.9%
YUM! Brands
19.0%
Chipotle
12.9%
Darden
8.7%
Aramark
1.8%

Prism news attention

Normalized share across these five names; attention is not quality.

McDonald's
42.4%
Chipotle
29.8%
Darden
21.5%
Aramark
5.0%
YUM! Brands
1.3%
03 · Prism readout

What the signals say—and what they do not

The headline share is normalized eating places news attention across these five names. Partial community coverage and U.S.-scope patent records are displayed separately and are not blended into it.

Scale + attention

McDonald's leads the conversation

It holds 42.4% of measured eating places news attention and also carries the basket's largest revenue base at $26.89B.

Price path

Aramark leads the available price paths

Its monthly-close return is +134.4% for the five-year window. At the other end, Chipotle is -2.2% for its five-year window. Windows printed on each card must be compared carefully; price history is not a forecast.

Profitability

McDonald's has the widest latest margin

Its FY2025 net margin is 31.9%. Its revenue history in this snapshot spans only the periods printed on its card, so longer histories are not treated as equivalent.

Price vs operating signals

YUM! Brands shows why one ratio is not a verdict

It has the basket's lowest snapshot P/E at 19.0x while its five-year window price return is +15.0%. Valuation, price path and readiness answer different questions.

04 · Research areas

Deeper Prism readout where coverage is dense

Shown only for companies with more than 800 available Prism news records. Counts describe the available research corpus, not company quality.

Areas of research · MCD

McDonald's

71,782available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
342
Macro demand & rates
234
Earnings & financial performance
224
Capital allocation & transactions
219
Leadership & governance
198

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

-29.2%6,680 latest 12m vs 9,433 prior 12m
2024-02: 564 mentions2024-03: 603 mentions2024-04: 468 mentions2024-05: 622 mentions2024-06: 515 mentions2024-07: 565 mentions2024-08: 568 mentions2024-09: 535 mentions2024-10: 1,375 mentions2024-11: 721 mentions2024-12: 752 mentions2025-01: 1,122 mentions2025-02: 1,105 mentions2025-03: 845 mentions2025-04: 663 mentions2025-05: 564 mentions2025-06: 458 mentions2025-07: 725 mentions2025-08: 1,472 mentions2025-09: 729 mentions2025-10: 369 mentions2025-11: 503 mentions2025-12: 494 mentions2026-01: 437 mentions2026-02: 596 mentions2026-03: 629 mentions2026-04: 784 mentions2026-05: 563 mentions2026-06: 98 mentions2026-07: 6 mentions2024-022026-07

Machine-classified coverage tone

66.2% positive+7.0 pp vs preceding four quarters
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Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

mcdonald's 444hamburger chains 339burger restaurants 330discount meals 320meal deals 312promotional burgers 291burger combos 241meal toys 181

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-07-27 · trend and themes shown through 2026-07
Areas of research · CMG

Chipotle

50,508available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Macro demand & rates
465
Leadership & governance
454
Earnings & financial performance
400
Price action & investor response
396
Capital allocation & transactions
198

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

-4.9%6,071 latest 12m vs 6,383 prior 12m
2024-02: 491 mentions2024-03: 325 mentions2024-04: 501 mentions2024-05: 432 mentions2024-06: 421 mentions2024-07: 423 mentions2024-08: 822 mentions2024-09: 379 mentions2024-10: 690 mentions2024-11: 429 mentions2024-12: 411 mentions2025-01: 504 mentions2025-02: 828 mentions2025-03: 470 mentions2025-04: 625 mentions2025-05: 473 mentions2025-06: 232 mentions2025-07: 520 mentions2025-08: 1,088 mentions2025-09: 599 mentions2025-10: 382 mentions2025-11: 596 mentions2025-12: 464 mentions2026-01: 383 mentions2026-02: 638 mentions2026-03: 449 mentions2026-04: 692 mentions2026-05: 704 mentions2026-06: 74 mentions2026-07: 2 mentions2024-022026-07

Machine-classified coverage tone

77.8% positive+5.4 pp vs preceding four quarters
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25Q1
25Q2
25Q3
25Q4
26Q1
26Q2
26Q3

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

burrito fast food 300coffee subscriptions 287stock performance 269coffee shop design 242ceo change 204restaurant coupons 106meal deal vouchers 101mexican drive-thrus 89

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-06–2026-07-31 · trend and themes shown through 2026-07
Areas of research · YUM

YUM! Brands

2,223available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
126
Leadership & governance
91
Capital allocation & transactions
51
Earnings & financial performance
51
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
19

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

-29.4%295 latest 12m vs 418 prior 12m
2024-01: 20 mentions2024-02: 8 mentions2024-03: 7 mentions2024-04: 7 mentions2024-05: 14 mentions2024-06: 9 mentions2024-07: 10 mentions2024-08: 19 mentions2024-09: 7 mentions2024-10: 16 mentions2024-11: 16 mentions2024-12: 5 mentions2025-01: 39 mentions2025-02: 184 mentions2025-03: 35 mentions2025-04: 35 mentions2025-05: 22 mentions2025-06: 30 mentions2025-07: 10 mentions2025-08: 19 mentions2025-09: 25 mentions2025-10: 18 mentions2025-11: 28 mentions2025-12: 14 mentions2026-01: 24 mentions2026-02: 49 mentions2026-03: 16 mentions2026-04: 45 mentions2026-05: 40 mentions2026-06: 7 mentions2024-012026-06

Machine-classified coverage tone

88.5% positive+0.0 pp vs preceding four quarters
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24Q4
25Q1
25Q2
25Q3
25Q4
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26Q2

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

ceo change 26stock performance 16pizza franchises 13profit statement 8earnings report 8quarterly results 7pizza chains 7market reaction 6

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-18–2026-06-07 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06
Areas of research · DRI

Darden

36,506available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Macro demand & rates
579
Earnings & financial performance
388
Price action & investor response
378
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
216
Leadership & governance
155

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

-32.7%3,459 latest 12m vs 5,139 prior 12m
2024-03: 449 mentions2024-04: 348 mentions2024-05: 439 mentions2024-06: 323 mentions2024-07: 341 mentions2024-08: 231 mentions2024-09: 509 mentions2024-10: 280 mentions2024-11: 274 mentions2024-12: 374 mentions2025-01: 262 mentions2025-02: 451 mentions2025-03: 1,220 mentions2025-04: 387 mentions2025-05: 296 mentions2025-06: 309 mentions2025-07: 333 mentions2025-08: 444 mentions2025-09: 443 mentions2025-10: 281 mentions2025-11: 248 mentions2025-12: 325 mentions2026-01: 333 mentions2026-02: 478 mentions2026-03: 383 mentions2026-04: 508 mentions2026-05: 382 mentions2026-06: 76 mentions2026-07: 1 mentions2026-08: 1 mentions2024-032026-08

Machine-classified coverage tone

57.9% positive+12.6 pp vs preceding four quarters
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Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

money laundering investigations 529narcotics smuggling operations 263heroin smuggling routes 227drug courier profiling 222illicit drug supply chains 185stock performance 178money laundering 176international drug smuggling 167

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-08-01 · trend and themes shown through 2026-08
Areas of research · ARMK

Aramark

8,536available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
122
Leadership & governance
104
Earnings & financial performance
89
Macro demand & rates
83
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
55

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

-19.1%876 latest 12m vs 1,083 prior 12m
2024-02: 65 mentions2024-03: 59 mentions2024-04: 77 mentions2024-05: 88 mentions2024-06: 79 mentions2024-07: 119 mentions2024-08: 105 mentions2024-09: 79 mentions2024-10: 80 mentions2024-11: 44 mentions2024-12: 26 mentions2025-01: 79 mentions2025-02: 173 mentions2025-03: 73 mentions2025-04: 209 mentions2025-05: 74 mentions2025-06: 40 mentions2025-07: 101 mentions2025-08: 175 mentions2025-09: 50 mentions2025-10: 52 mentions2025-11: 60 mentions2025-12: 47 mentions2026-01: 39 mentions2026-02: 92 mentions2026-03: 116 mentions2026-04: 131 mentions2026-05: 101 mentions2026-06: 12 mentions2026-07: 1 mentions2024-022026-07

Machine-classified coverage tone

70.4% positive+10.2 pp vs preceding four quarters
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Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

multiple victim shooting 131campus violence 115campus shootings 104student homicides 99mass shooting victims 96campus assault 93school homicide 81student assault 77

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-01–2026-07-15 · trend and themes shown through 2026-07
05 · Community discussion

Common topics where conversation clears the gate

Shown only above 25 entity-matched mentions. Coverage is partial and topic counts exclude identified namesake noise.

CMG

Chipotle

68,331 mentions
Products, pricing and logistics
43,570
Stock and valuation
8,900
Workplace and hiring
7,677
Other company context
160

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 68,331 records remained after filtering.

ARMK

Aramark

1,314 mentions
Workplace and hiring
467
Products, pricing and logistics
318
Stock and valuation
136
Other company context
6

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 1,314 records remained after filtering.

06 · Company event log

Common news types and recent highlights

Event patterns and selected recent headlines come from available Prism company-event records since 2023. Obvious forecast, holdings, duplicate and retrospective noise is filtered.

MCD

McDonald's

through 2026-05-04
Company announcements 272Earnings releases 58Leadership changes 57Regulatory 14Business contracts 13
  1. Earnings releases

    Revenue (TTM): $26.9 billion

  2. Business contracts

    The newly signed brands include Badami's, McDonald's, The BBQ Company, Sardari, Rubarru (The Beer Mug), Funky Island, Blaaze, and I Luv Food (food court).

  3. Company announcements

    McDonald’s will expand its crafted drinks – among them Dirty Dr Pepper and Mango Pineapple Refresher – starting in May, according to QSR Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

CMG

Chipotle

through 2026-04-30
Company announcements 127Earnings releases 77Leadership changes 67Lawsuits 28Business contracts 8
  1. Company announcements

    Much of the momentum from the company’s positive Q1, however, came from its “High Protein Menu,” launched in December and featuring items with between 15 and 81 grams of the nutrient.

  2. Earnings releases

    Chipotle Mexican Grill kicked off the first quarter of 2026 with a pivot back to transaction growth, overcoming a difficult consumer environment to deliver $3.1 billion in revenue.

  3. Leadership changes

    She has been promoted to senior vice president of brand marketing, according to a Chipotle spokesperson.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

YUM

YUM! Brands

through 2026-05-03
Company announcements 64Earnings releases 54Leadership changes 52Business contracts 9M&A 6
  1. Earnings releases

    First-quarter results and brand performance CFO Ranjith Roy said Yum! system sales grew 6% in the first quarter, driven by 5% unit growth and 3% global same-store sales growth.

  2. Leadership changes

    Yum! Brands, Inc. today announced the appointment of Kathleen (Leeny) K. Oberg, former Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Development of Marriott International, Inc., to its Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2026.

  3. Company announcements

    Pizza Hut parent Yum! Brands said in February that it will close about 250 underperforming stores as part of its “Hut Forward” turnaround plan.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

DRI

Darden

through 2026-04-27
Earnings releases 69Company announcements 19M&A 19Leadership changes 18Asset acquisitions 2
  1. M&A

    The parent company of Olive Garden and eight other full-service chains said Friday it had closed the deal for 101-unit Chuy’s, bringing its portfolio to 10 brands. The all-cash transaction was worth about $605 million.

  2. Earnings releases

    Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI – Get Free Report) updated its FY 2026 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 10.570-10.674 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 10.570. The company issued revenue guidance of $13.2 billion-$13.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.2 billion.

  3. Company announcements

    Darden Restaurants, Inc. just announced it is closing all of its remaining Bahama Breeze locations.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

ARMK

Aramark

through 2026-04-27
Earnings releases 21Company announcements 8Lawsuits 4Leadership changes 3M&A 3
  1. Business contracts

    Aramark said it has entered into a multi-year agreement with a top global hyperscaler to provide hospitality and facilities services across multiple data center locations.

  2. Earnings releases

    Reports Q1 revenue $4.83B, consensus $4.76B.

  3. Board updates

    Dichter said the board nominated 11 directors—Cameron, Creed, DelGhiaccio, Dreiling, Heller, Keverian, King, Lopez, Sadove, Wills, and Zillmer—to serve until the 2027 annual meeting or until successors are elected and qualified.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

07 · Industry landscape

Eating Places Industry in USA

A bottom-of-page sector lens combining Prism's exact U.S. market-growth extraction with tightly matched U.S.-primary eating places news. It adds context to the stock basket without turning industry signals into a recommendation.

Prism market forecast extraction

food service market

17 sources91.3% extraction confidence
2024 extracted base$822.60B–$1.07T
2034 extracted forecast$4.27T
Implied source CAGR7.8%
Inflation in Demand for Outsourcing Servicesshift from unorganised to organised in foodwork that food aggregators are doing

Multi-source card returned by Prism's /special_extraction market-growth service. Extracted geography mix: Global, United States, India, USA. This is a dated market benchmark, not a forecast for the five-stock basket.

Prism news insights

U.S. Eating Places news pulse

167,678available Prism news records
Latest 12m volume+0.8%72111 vs 71537 records
Positive classified tone55.9%+0.2 pp vs prior four quarters
2024-01: 5,531 mentions2024-02: 4,612 mentions2024-03: 4,650 mentions2024-04: 4,414 mentions2024-05: 4,823 mentions2024-06: 4,251 mentions2024-07: 4,466 mentions2024-08: 4,102 mentions2024-09: 4,680 mentions2024-10: 6,263 mentions2024-11: 5,563 mentions2024-12: 5,006 mentions2025-01: 6,443 mentions2025-02: 11,699 mentions2025-03: 7,501 mentions2025-04: 6,149 mentions2025-05: 5,414 mentions2025-06: 3,738 mentions2025-07: 6,925 mentions2025-08: 18,195 mentions2025-09: 6,797 mentions2025-10: 6,182 mentions2025-11: 5,380 mentions2025-12: 4,237 mentions2026-01: 2,491 mentions2026-02: 5,009 mentions2026-03: 5,425 mentions2026-04: 7,163 mentions2026-05: 569 mentions2024-012026-05
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Available U.S.-primary Prism records matching eating, place, food. Metadata counts can overlap; coverage volume and tone are not measures of industry output.

Recurring Prism themes

employee benefits and workplace culture initiatives
15,199
workforce reductions and layoff announcements
9,457
corporate social responsibility (csr) programs
8,487
climate-related displacement and refugee crises
6,589
food safety regulation compliance
6,334
seafood and shellfish categories
6,005

Metadata occurrences; one record can contribute more than one theme.

Frequent industry keywords

food rescue donations 4,640workplace vaccination requirements 4,588public health orders vaccines 4,505vaccine policy controversies 4,463vaccine mandate legislation 4,382vaccine mandate compliance 4,318vaccine policy ethics 3,904meal distribution funding 3,557

Counts cover the matched industry corpus, not the broader company-news totals above.

Curated signal map

Opportunity and caution, side by side

Evidence prompts—not probabilities.

Opportunity · market driver

Inflation in Demand for Outsourcing Services

17 forecast sources

A recurring driver in the extracted market evidence provides a measurable research thread for the sector.

Prism /special_extraction market-growth card
Opportunity · demand

employee benefits and workplace culture initiatives

15,199 matched theme records

The largest current Prism news theme shows where sector attention and reported activity are concentrating.

Prism U.S. news metadata
Opportunity · innovation

Innovation and product activity

4,850 matched news records

Technology, product and R&D metadata provide an auditable view of the sector's innovation conversation.

Unique news records matching the curated innovation rule
Caution · market restraint

Catering to Client Expectations

4,362 macro/risk records

The extracted restraint and the measured macro-news pulse belong in the downside research frame.

Prism market-growth restraint plus U.S. news metadata
Caution · news pulse

Coverage growth can reverse

+0.8% news volume

The latest 12 months contain 72,111 matched records versus 71,537 in the previous window.

Available Prism coverage through 2026-05-05
Caution · sentiment

Classified tone is not demand

55.9% positive · +0.2pp

Machine-classified news tone is useful context, but it is not revenue, output or a return forecast.

Eight-quarter Prism sentiment series

Opportunity and caution cards are curated research prompts grounded in the counts shown; they are not probabilities, recommendations or forecasts. News coverage runs 2024-01-01–2026-05-05; the latest quarter may be partial.

Explore the broader U.S. industrial landscape →
08 · Scope and sources

How to read this snapshot

Basket and ranking

Five currently eligible U.S.-listed issuers classified under SEC SIC 5812 (Eating Places). The builder rechecks price, filing and Prism evidence before assembling the basket. This is a focused research comparison, not a complete sector index.

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Evidence used

  • Official annual filingsFY revenue history and latest profitability
  • U.S. exchange market snapshotDated price, 52-week range, P/E, market capitalisation and monthly-close return
  • Fliar BI PrismReadiness, company and industry news, community context and U.S.-scope patent records
  • Prism market-growth extractionDated third-party Eating Places Industry in USA market benchmark with source-count, geography and confidence context
Important: Research and educational information only. Not investment advice, a recommendation, or a live-price service. Market figures are dated as of 28 August 2026.
09 · Final derived analysis

Conclusions, comparisons, anomalies, explanations and decisions

A final evidence-linked synthesis of the metrics already displayed above. Every named company opens its actual Companies Radar profile.

Conclusions

Scale and margin leadership sit with McDonald's and McDonald's

McDonald's has the largest displayed latest revenue at $26.89B; McDonald's has the widest displayed latest margin at 31.9%.

Comparisons
Anomalies

YUM! Brands has the widest attention-readiness rank gap

It ranks #5 by measured news attention (1.3%) and #3 by Prism readiness. The gap is a review flag, not evidence that either measure is wrong.

Chipotle shows a price-operating divergence to inspect

Its displayed filing-revenue change is +58.0% while its available monthly-close return is -2.2%. The signs differ, but the two measures cover different windows and do not establish causality.

Explanations

Attention measures coverage volume, not quality

McDonald's's 42.4% share says it appears most often in the matched Prism corpus. It does not score whether that coverage is favourable or whether the company is investable.

Different windows explain why signals can disagree

Revenue comes from the printed filing periods, price paths use the dated monthly-close windows, and Prism signals use their stated event windows. No causal attribution is made across them.

Research decisions

Verify the readiness leader in Companies Radar

Open McDonald's's company profile and inspect the underlying management, market-activity, innovation and risk evidence before relying on the 60/100 score.

Method boundary: These are deterministic comparisons of the displayed snapshot fields. They flag relationships for further research, do not establish causality and are not investment recommendations.
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