Skip to content
Back to Restaurant Enterprise Index
231

Authentic Restaurant Brands

450 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022

Track This Company Profile reviewed September 2026

Enterprise Snapshot
(US & CAN)

Public profile metrics.

~225 Restaurant locations
5 Concepts or Entities
~$800M System sales (US & CAN)
7+ C-suite connections

Concepts

3 of 5 shown
Mambo Seafood PJW Restaurant Group Pollo Tropical View All

Cuisines

4 of 4 shown
Mexican/Latin American Bar Food Seafood

States & Provinces

3 of 11 shown
CT FL MA View All

Summary

Authentic Restaurant Brands came together in 2022 as a multi-concept restaurant operator managing several well-known casual dining banners. Its headquarters is at 450 Park Ave in New York, New York. Concepts include Mambo Seafood and Pollo Tropical, along with others. It also owns the PJW Restaurant Group. As a multi-concept restaurant parent, it oversees company-operated brands rather than franchising a single system. Locations operate in multiple U.S. states with no Canadian presence. Restaurants are casual/family and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner with American, bar-food, Mexican or Latin and seafood menus. Size and seating vary by concept, with a typical footprint around 7,000 square feet and about 250 seats.

What the Complete Profile Includes

The public profile introduces the enterprise. Subscribers can explore the connected records behind it.

Ownership & Concepts

See parent, ultimate-parent, concept, franchise, and related-company relationships in one connected structure.

Contacts & Leadership

Access researched executive and C-suite contacts associated with the parent company and linked concepts.

Locations & Markets

Move from the parent organization to its concepts, operating markets, and linked restaurant-location records.

How This Profile Is Built

RestaurantData combines corporate disclosures, franchise documentation, public filings, company websites, location research, and proprietary verification. Parent-level figures may aggregate linked concepts. Certain sales and location totals are presented as estimates when companies do not publish a single current figure.

About This Enterprise Profile

Research Notes

Locations linked directly to this company may include franchised restaurants it operates and locations of its wholly owned concepts that do not have separate headquarters records. Those with a substantial number of locations generally have their own headquarters record, while smaller concepts may be linked directly to this company.

The Restaurant Enterprise Index is RestaurantData’s research framework for organizing major restaurant enterprises, including franchisors, franchisees, multi-concept operators, and parent organizations.

Certain sales and location totals are presented as estimates when companies do not publish single current figures.

Yes, if you represent a company please click here to submit comments/suggestions or opt-out request.

Yes! For entities that believe they qualify for inclusion in the Restaurant Enterprise Index, please click here to submit verification details for review.

The Restaurant Enterprise Index focuses primarily on companies with a substantial role in restaurant operations. Investment firms, financial sponsors, and other ownership partners are generally not included unless they also play a meaningful operating role; an otherwise qualifying entity may also be omitted when sufficient reliable information is unavailable.

The ownership hierarchy follows the entity structure from the bottom up, showing the profiled entity in relation to its parent organizations, including its ultimate parent. When the entity owns or operates concepts beneath it, up to three are displayed.

Verify Our Data Methodology

  • Foundation: Active state business registries form the primary backbone of every record.
  • Sources: Publicly available filings throughout, including public Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs).
  • Integrity: Zero proprietary third-party databases utilized.
  • Verification: Entity/concept records are validated at the source by our in-house research team.

Leveraging Human-Verified Connections

  • Collection: Filings and public records are gathered through intake procedures.
  • Verification: In-house researchers review every record before it enters the database.
  • Ownership Chain: Where relationships can be established, researchers work upward from a concept headquarters or single concept through parent, grandparent, and ultimate parent, resolving operators into one connected structure.

Maintaining the Longitudinal Record

  • Duration: Continuous tracking since 1997. Twenty-nine years of unit-level history.
  • Method: Same methodology applied across the full period so year-over-year comparisons hold.
  • Change Tracking: Openings, closures, ownership transfers, and operator consolidation are recorded as they occur, not backfilled.
  • Result: Expansion and contraction trends visible over decades, not snapshots.
Subscribe

Explore the Complete Enterprise

Unlock the full ownership hierarchy, all concepts, executive contacts, linked restaurant locations, geographic coverage, and change monitoring for Authentic Restaurant Brands and other companies in the Restaurant Enterprise Index.

70+ parent-level data points Complete ownership hierarchy Executive contacts Concept and location records Enterprise change alerts