MOD Pizza tops the list this year. In the chain's first time making the cut as one of the 200 largest chains in the US, MOD grew sales a whopping 80%, reaching $270 million.
MOD opened 110 new locations, reaching 297 restaurants across the US. In January, the company announced it had raised another $73 million, bringing the fast-casual pizza chain's equity capital raised to more than $185 million.
"We're going to continue to grow at the rate we have been growing — which is really fast," CEO and co-founder Scott Svenson told Business Insider at the time.