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Recipe Unlimited

199 Four Valley Dr, Vaughan, ON L4K OB8

Track This Company Profile reviewed September 2026

Recipe Unlimited has multiple concepts. We link units at the concept level in the Atlas platform.

Enterprise Snapshot
(US & CAN)

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~1,165 Restaurant locations
18 Concepts or Entities
~$2.4B System sales (US & CAN)
30+ C-suite connections

Concepts

3 of 18 shown
Anejo Bier Markt Blanco Cantina View All

Cuisines

5 of 5 shown
Burger American Chicken Bbq Italian

States & Provinces

3 of 27 shown
AB AL AZ View All

Summary

Recipe Unlimited traces its history to the Canada Railway News Company, founded in 1883. The company is headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario. Recipe owns, manages and franchises a large restaurant portfolio across the United States and Canada. It is the parent company of Añejo, Bier Markt and Blanco Cantina, along with others. Each child concept retains its own restaurant format and operating model. The portfolio includes company-operated and franchised restaurants and is concentrated in casual/family dining. Lunch and dinner are the principal meal periods. Cuisines include American, Bar Food, Burger, Café and Chicken. A representative location has about 200 seats and occupies approximately 5,000 square feet. Those figures vary widely because the portfolio includes everything from quick serve counters to full-service dining rooms.

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  • 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.

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  • Collection: Filings and public records are gathered through intake procedures.
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  • 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.
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