HADM 4510/5510: Restaurant Development: Company Research

Technomic Ignite is a leading database for researching chain restaurants. Find sales figures, menus, franchise information, rankings, news, industry publications, and more. Top reports include the Technomic Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report, which is an annual ranking of the 500 largest restaurant chains in the US by annual system sales.

Capital IQ is a major financial platform used to find data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. It includes financials for over 88,000 public companies and 825,000 private companies.

PitchBook is a private equity and venture capital database with in-depth information and statistics on companies, deals and investors. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, find real time data on deals, identify and analyze comparables, and search investor details. Users must create an account using your Cornell email address. Log in > Log in with SSO > [Cornell email address].