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Solutions for Quick Service Restaurants

Open QSR Locations Faster and Hold the Build Quality

Quick service restaurant brands need to open locations at speed and scale. RolloutIQ™ helps QSR development teams manage drive-thru builds, franchise standards, and high-volume rollouts from a single command center.

Quick Service Restaurants

The Challenge

What slows a QSR development pipeline

High-Volume Rollout Pace

Wingstop added 493 net new restaurants in 2025, which means dozens of projects in flight at any moment and handoffs between real estate, construction, and operations that are easy to drop.

Drive-Thru Complexity

Chipotlane-style digital pickup lanes, dual drive-thru lanes (Taco Bell Defy), and digital menu board geometries require different stacking, payment, and headset configurations than traditional drive-thrus. Site constraints often force prototype variants not in the original CD set.

Franchisee Schedule Visibility Gap

Corporate sets the prototype and the milestones, and franchisees own execution. When franchisee status arrives by email or spreadsheet, corporate learns about a slipping project late.

Prototype Replication

Scaling a proven store prototype to new markets means adapting to local codes while maintaining the speed and consistency your brand demands.

Platform Features

Everything a QSR development team needs

RolloutIQ™ helps QSR brands open at volume and hold every store to the same brand standard.

Prototype Playbooks

Build a schedule template for each store prototype, with tasks owned by role that land on whoever holds the role on that project.

Closure Photos and Critical Items

Punch walks run from templates with pass or fail criteria on every item. You can require a closure photo, and a walk cannot be completed while critical items stay open.

Multi-Region Pipeline

See the whole development pipeline on a map or in a table, from a planned site to an open store, filtered by region and market.

Velocity Reporting

Filter on-time openings and median cycle time between phases to a brand, region, or market, and find the phase where projects stall.

For franchise groups

For QSR franchisees running development at scale

At many QSR brands, franchisees do most of the building. FRANdata reports that existing franchisees developed more than 95% of the Wingstop restaurants opened in 2025. RolloutIQ gives those groups one place to run their development agreements and the franchisor approvals and reimage waves that come with them.

Development agreement deadlines

Record each committed site's agreement deadline as a custom field, and line it up against the planned opening date in Portfolio Explorer.

Reimage waves

Run a franchisor's reimage program as one remodel project per store, started from the new prototype's template, with each budget governed through approval.

Every brand in one workspace

Brand is a field on every store, so reports and the project list narrow to one brand or group across all of them.

Single Source of Truth

One source of truth for your Quick Service Restaurants portfolio

As your Quick Service Restaurants footprint grows across sites, the same store ends up spread across separate spreadsheets and point tools, and the numbers drift apart. RolloutIQ™ keeps one durable record per store from the first deal through opening day, so your Quick Service Restaurants rollout runs on one set of numbers every team can trust across the whole multi-site portfolio.

See how RolloutIQ™ is the single source of truth

Inside the Platform

See Your Rollout in One Place

The same RolloutIQ™ system of record that runs the whole program, from deal to grand opening across every store.

RolloutIQ™ portfolio dashboard with live schedule and budget health across every store project
RolloutIQ™ critical-path project schedule with a Gantt and deliverables list

By the numbers

Public figures from company filings, trade associations, research firms and federal data on how this industry is building, and none of them are RolloutIQ™ results.

350 to 370

new restaurants Chipotle plans to open in 2026

Chipotle, 2026

493

net new Wingstop restaurants in 2025

Wingstop 8-K, 2026

1,100

Burger King remodels still planned through 2028

Restaurant Dive, 2024

$8.5B

in rent relief and capital McDonald's is offering franchisees to reinvest through 2036

McDonald's, 2026

Scale Your QSR Pipeline Faster

See how RolloutIQ™ helps QSR brands open more locations with tighter timelines and higher quality. Book a personalized demo.