Growth: store-count history
Cumulative curves are rebuilt from per-store opening dates (GCIS business registry + news archives, every date cited). They count currently-open stores only — closed stores are invisible (survivor bias) and stores without a citable opening date are excluded, so early-year levels are understated; coverage is stated on each chart. Point markers and quarterly series are cited point-in-time counts (MOPS, SEC filings, wayback snapshots). Updated 2026-11-13.
Taiwan — cumulative openings (currently-open stores)
Dated coverage: McDonald's 379/420 · Starbucks 458/614 · Burger King 76/102. Undated stores excluded; closures invisible. KFC (2/200 dated) and MOS (4/295) lack enough cited opening dates to chart — MOS has cited period counts below instead.
MOS Burger Taiwan — cited store counts
Each point is a dated citation (CNA / 工商時報 / 經濟日報 et al. via financials dataset) — not a continuous register; x-axis is time-proportional, so wide gaps are real citation gaps. Net count peaked at 304 and drifted to 296 while revenue per store rose: cull-and-upgrade.
Shake Shack international — cumulative openings by market
Lines: monthly cumulative openings of currently-open stores from cited per-store dates (72/73 dated; HK New Town Plaza undated, excluded). Dots: independent cited snapshots (wayback store lists, live locators, register); FY counts plotted at year end. Dots sitting ABOVE a line are the honest gap: stores open then that have since closed/relocated (HK Metro Plaza, original Macau) or stores the register lacks (JP Nishi-Shinjuku, undated HK New Town Plaza). JP wayback counts were re-counted 2026-11-13 excluding non-store page slugs; locator omissions can also push a dot below a line — the 2022–2024 JP locator omitted The Park Front Hotel store (open since 2022-10-27 per Shack JP's own announcement). KR dots derive from the same register, so they sit on the line by construction.
Shake Shack — licensed shacks worldwide (SEC-filed, quarterly)
SHAK 10-Q/10-K licensed-unit counts at period end (US airports/roadside + all international licensed markets incl. KR/JP/HK/SG/CN/ME/UK). 151 → 311 over five years (+106%). Empty slots (2024Q4, 2025Q4, 2026Q1) = filing not parsed; gaps shown, never interpolated.