Editing Chain store (section)

==Restaurant chains==
[[Image:A Picture of a Southern Town- Life in Wartime Reading, Berkshire, England, UK, 1945 D25380.jpg|thumb|Opening the first of its chain of teashops in 1894, branch of [[J. Lyons and Co.|Lyons]] in Reading, Berkshire pictured in 1945]]
[[File:Subway restaurant in the basement of Raffles City Shopping Centre, Singapore - 20060529.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Subway (restaurant)|Subway]] franchise restaurant]]
A '''restaurant chain''' is a set of related [[restaurant]]s in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership or [[franchising]] agreements.<ref name="Jakle Sculle 2002">{{cite book | last1=Jakle | first1=J.A. | last2=Sculle | first2=K.A. | title=Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age | publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press | series=The road and American culture | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-8018-6920-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0nYcgnWKWXgC&pg=PA68 | access-date=December 29, 2017 | page=68– | archive-date=July 27, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727192705/https://books.google.com/books?id=0nYcgnWKWXgC&pg=PA68 | url-status=live }}</ref> Typically, the restaurants within a chain are built to a [[Formula restaurant|standard format]] through architectural prototype development and offer a standard menu and/or services.<ref name="jaffrey_NH" /> [[Fast food restaurant]]s are the most common, but sit-down restaurant chains also exist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/the-20-best-chain-restaurants-in-america-2016-7/#16-buffalo-wild-wings-5|title=The 20 best chain restaurants in America|website=Business Insider France|language=fr-FR|access-date=2017-06-07|archive-date=August 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827103412/http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/the-20-best-chain-restaurants-in-america-2016-7/#16-buffalo-wild-wings-5|url-status=live}}</ref> Restaurant chains locations are often found near [[highway]]s, [[shopping mall]]s and densely populated urban or [[tourist attraction|tourist areas]].

=== Britain ===
In 1896, Samuel Isaacs from [[Whitechapel]], east London opened the first [[fish and chips]] restaurant (as opposed to a take-away) in London, and its instant popularity led to a chain comprising 22 restaurants with locations around London and seaside resorts in southern England including [[Brighton]], [[Ramsgate]] and [[Margate]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jolles |first1=Michael A. |last2=Rubinstein |first2=W. |title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |date=2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |pages=457}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Walton |first1=John K. |title=Fish and Chips, and the British Working Class, 1870-1940 |publisher=A&C Black |page=34}}</ref> In 1864, the [[Aerated Bread Company]] (ABC) began operating a chain of [[Tea in the United Kingdom#Tea rooms|teashops]] in Britain. ABC would be overtaken as the leader in the field by [[J. Lyons and Co.|Lyons]], co-founded by [[Joseph Lyons (caterer)|Joseph Lyons]] in 1884. From 1909 Lyons began operating a chain of teashops which became a staple of the [[High Street]] in the UK, and at its peak, the firm numbered around 200 cafes.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/12/bawden-battenberg-lyons-teashops-lithographs |access-date=26 June 2022 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>