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THE QSR 50 | AMERICA’S HOTTEST CHAINS CHAINS BY SYSTEMWIDE SALES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 CHANGE IN SYSTEMWIDE SALES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 CHAINS BY TOTAL UNITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 CHAINS BY AUV GROWTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 DYNAMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 QUICK CASUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 THE SEGMENT LEADERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 A Special Annual Feature in Association with GE Capital Franchise Finance (GECFF) WITH REPORTING BY GREG SANDERS, SHERRI DAYE, AND CAL CHANG YOCUM hen Duke University School of Law fell out of the top 10 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of top American law schools, the school’s dean and its students held an emergency session to discuss the implications of no longer being a “top-10 school.” Despite the panic, one suspects the students will still get good jobs. And yet it’s human nature to want to see how we compare to our peers. Numbers don’t tell the whole story, but they tell an important part of it, and it’s with that in mind that QSR, in cooperation with GECFF, presents its fifth annual ranking of the top quick-service chains. The stories the numbers tell this year range from same-ol’ same-ol’ to major change in landscape. Read on. www.qsrmagazine.com | QSR AUGUST 2002 41 T H E

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