McAlister’s Deli
5620 Glenridge Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30342-1334
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Approximately 95-100% of the McAlister’s Deli restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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Cuisines
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McAlister’s Deli began in 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi, and is headquartered at 5620 Glenridge Drive NE in Atlanta, Georgia. The concept grew from a neighborhood gathering place into a fast casual restaurant system. GoTo Foods is the parent company, while Roark Capital Group is its ultimate parent. Its cuisines are Sandwich and Deli. Menus include sandwiches, spuds, soups, salads, desserts and sweet tea. Locations serve lunch and dinner and also provide catering. Almost all restaurants are operated by independent franchisees. A typical McAlister’s has about 150 seats and occupies approximately 3,500 square feet. Restaurant designs support dine-in and takeout service, while newer or nontraditional locations can use different footprints, seating layouts and ordering channels.
McAlister’s Deli Growth History
McAlister’s Deli Vector Profile
McAlister’s Deli’s selected history begins with RestaurantData’s August 2000 development record in Greenville, South Carolina. The trail shows multi-state activity in 2007–2009, a denser run of opening signals in 2016–2018, and additional records across several states in 2024–2026. The later dotted segment adds researched opening years to the continuing development-report trail.
For investors and sales teams, the history provides context for examining established multi-state presence, later market activity and the locations behind the research.
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Recent arc in development. Additional verified records may extend this view.
Vector readout: The 2016–2018 window contains 60+ selected opening signals across 15+ states, compared with 20+ signals across 15+ states in 2007–2009. The 2024–2026 window contains 5–9 selected opening signals across 5+ states. These windows describe RestaurantData’s selected research trail and do not establish complete opening totals or a change in the brand’s actual growth rate.
RestaurantData source trail: Archived development reports draw on state and legal filings, permits, local publications and other dated evidence. From 2015, Atlas by RestaurantData™ opening-year research supplements the continuing report trail. These years describe a location’s researched opening history, not when the data was collected. A report-period date and a researched opening year can differ for the same address.
Restaurant location examples along the expansion arc
- 2000Researched opening year
McAlister’s Deli
618 NW 60th St
Gainesville, FL 32607
Alachua County - 2004Researched opening year
McAlister’s Deli
8355 E 116th St · Ste 101
Fishers, IN 46038
Hamilton County - 2006Researched opening year
McAlister’s Deli
7130 W Maple St · Ste 320
Wichita, KS 67209
Sedgwick County - 2016Researched opening year
McAlister’s Deli
356 Great Northern Mall
North Olmsted, OH 44070
Cuyahoga County - 2022Researched opening year
McAlister’s Deli
1720 Pole Line Rd E
Twin Falls, ID 83301
Twin Falls County - 2024Development record year
McAlister’s Deli
1860 Adams St
Mankato, MN 56001
Blue Earth County
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Source: RestaurantData U.S. restaurant-location research. Headquarters and franchisee headquarters are excluded from location evidence. Window bands count distinct restaurant addresses within each selected development-record window. Signal volumes use rounded bands, including a 5–9 band for the smaller recent window; state counts are rounded down. They are not counts of currently operating units or every opening.
The 2026 development-record segment runs through September Week 2. A development record may describe a planned location. Atlas reverification dates establish status at the stated check and are not used as opening dates. The 6 example locations were recorded as open at source verification dates in 2025–2026. Mankato’s 2024 label identifies the archived research period.
Source availability varies across jurisdictions and years, including the pandemic and its aftermath. Gaps or thinner coverage do not by themselves establish an expansion pause or contraction.
The six displayed restaurant examples were cross-checked against Google Maps on November 3, 2026 and showed operating listings. Their year labels identify historical research periods or researched opening years, separate from this status check.
Read the Restaurant Vector™ overview for the research method and source definitions.
Historical reference: McAlister’s Deli in the 2009 Fast Casual Landscape report on RestaurantChains.net.
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