5400 Trinity Rd, Ste 309, Raleigh, NC 27607
Approximately 95-100% of the Golden Corral restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
Public profile metrics.
Golden Corral began in 1973 when James Maynard and William Carl opened the first restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The company is headquartered at 5400 Trinity Rd in Raleigh and manages the Golden Corral buffet system. About three-quarters of its restaurants are franchised, with the remainder company-operated. The brand has locations across many U.S. states and does not operate in Canada. Golden Corral serves breakfast, lunch and dinner through a buffet format. Cuisines include Steakhouse, American and Steak. A representative restaurant has about 250 seats and occupies approximately 7,000 square feet. Older family-steakhouse buildings, large buffet-and-grill restaurants and newer designs can vary considerably in capacity, floor plan and total footprint.
RestaurantPipeline activity
A weekly cut is a selected portion of RestaurantPipeline’s broader location-development research. This profile may show selected examples when the indexed company appears in that week’s research.
Weekly RestaurantPipeline activity cut
November Week 1
2250 Tyrone Blvd · St. Petersburg, FL 33710
Additional examples may be added
Selected records from later weekly cuts may appear here; not every matching record will be shown.
The public profile introduces the enterprise. Subscribers can explore the connected records behind it.
See parent, ultimate-parent, concept, franchise, and related-company relationships in one connected structure.
Access researched executive and C-suite contacts associated with the parent company and linked concepts.
Move from the parent organization to its concepts, operating markets, and linked restaurant-location records.
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 Certain sales and location totals are presented as estimates when companies do not publish a single current figure.
2025 FDDs in process. Units will be updated periodically as available.
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.
Unlock the full ownership hierarchy, all concepts, executive contacts, linked restaurant locations, geographic coverage, and change monitoring for Golden Corral and other companies in the Restaurant Enterprise Index.