Subway
Subway also hasn’t been immune to the closing of restaurants in the last few years. Subway closed a total of 1,100 branches in the US in 2018 alone. There were more closures, too, in 2019. Yet, don’t worry. Subway is the world’s largest chain-restaurant. The company is actively leaving open the most profitable branches.
Chipotle
Chipotle shut down 50 separate stores in 2019. Despite the increasing popularity of the chain, a few heavy setbacks over the past few years have placed a dent in the reputation of the firm. The restaurant had been hit with some poor ads a few years ago: customers got sick with E. Coli during two outbreaks attributed to food that they had consumed at Chipotle. A cyber-attack in 2019 left personal data of customers at risk. Now, there are more than 150 branched new ones that opened in 2019, and something has to go right.