10 W Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91103
Approximately 95-100% of the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill+ Bar restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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Applebee’s began in 1980 in the Atlanta area, founded by Bill and T.J. Palmer. W.R. Grace & Co. acquired the concept in 1983. The restaurant became Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar in 1986. Franchisees Abe Gustin and John Hamra acquired the company in 1988, and Applebee’s became publicly traded in 1989. IHOP Corp. acquired Applebee’s in 2007. The combined parent company became Dine Brands, which is Applebee’s parent company and ultimate parent. Applebee’s is headquartered at 10 W. Walnut Street in Pasadena, California, and has locations in 49 states. More than 80% of the system is franchised. More than 24 large franchisee group operators run Applebee’s. Some also operate other concepts, and many have regional organizations covering an entire state or several states. They are a casual/family dining concept serving American food. Its meal periods are lunch and dinner, while some locations also serve breakfast. Some locations have smaller footprints and others much larger. A typical restaurant has about 200 seats and occupies about 5,000 square feet.
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RestaurantData’s selected archived development trail for Applebee’s begins with a July 1997 report in Seekonk, Massachusetts. Dense multi-state records through the 2000s lead into a later combined history with researched opening years through 2026.
For sales teams and investors, these historical windows help compare current development with earlier activity and place individual locations within the brand’s longer expansion history.
20+ states with signals
35+ states with signals
35+ states with signals
35+ states with signals
Selected location history and opening signals, 1997–2026.
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Vector readout: The 2000–2004 window contains 200+ selected opening signals across 35+ states, followed by 200+ across 35+ states in 2005–2011. The 2012–2026 combined history adds 130+ selected signals across 35+ states under wider research coverage.
Later coverage includes more opening-year research. The 2026 segment is partial, and comparisons between periods should account for that wider source mix.
RestaurantData source trail: Archived RestaurantData house reports provide the development-report trail. Supporting restaurant-location research contributes researched opening-year attributes to the dotted segment. A development report year and an opening year can differ for the same location.
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Source: RestaurantData archived U.S. development reports and supporting restaurant-location research. Headquarters, franchisee offices, unrelated namesakes, renovations, transfers and unresolved addresses are excluded. Signal counts of 10 or more are rounded down to tens; counts from 5 to 9 use that range. State bands of 5 or more are rounded down to multiples of 5. Smaller counts are shown directly. The District of Columbia is identified separately.
The latest included dated evidence is 2026. The 2026 segment is partial. Development reports may describe planned restaurants. The six examples use the date basis shown on each card. A report year is not necessarily an opening year, and location verification dates are not used as opening dates. Historical locations may have closed.
The earlier solid segment uses report dates. Opening-year records enter the later dotted segment under the stated source periods. Markers identify years with selected dated evidence; connecting lines are illustrative between those years. Coverage varies across jurisdictions and years. These selections do not represent complete opening totals, current operating units or net growth. Gaps alone do not establish a pause or contraction.
Last updated November 2026.
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Historical reference: Applebee’s in the 1997 restaurant development archive on RestaurantChains.net.
For additional historical addresses and source details, see the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar location archive on RestaurantChains.net.
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