MTY Food Group

MTY Food Group Inc.
Formerly
  • Golden Sky Resources (1986–1994)
  • Golden Sky Ventures International (1994–2000)
  • iNsu Innovations Group (2000–2003)
Company typePublic
TSX: MTY
Founded1979; 45 years ago (1979) as Le Paradis du Pacifique
FounderStanley Ma
Headquarters
Saint-Laurent, Quebec
,
Canada
Number of locations
Decrease 6,719 (2021)[1]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Brands
List[1]
  • Allô! Mon Coco
  • America's Taco Shop
  • Baja Fresh Mexican Grill
  • Baton Rouge
  • Ben & Florentine
  • Big Smoke Burger
  • Blimpie
  • Built Custom Burgers
  • Buns Master
  • Café Dépôt
  • Casa Grecque
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • COOP Wicked Chicken
  • Country Style
  • Cultures
  • Dagwoods Sandwiches and Salads
  • Extreme Pita
  • Frullati Café & Bakery
  • Giorgio Ristorante
  • Grabbagreen
  • Johnnie's New York Pizzeria
  • Jugo Juice
  • Kim Chi
  • Koryo Korean Barbeque
  • Koya Japan
  • Küto Comptoir à Tartares
  • La Boite Verte
  • La Crémière
  • La Diperie
  • La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill
  • Madisons New York Grill & Bar
  • Manchu Wok
  • Maui Wowi
  • Mmmuffins
  • Mr. Souvlaki
  • Mr. Sub
  • Mucho Burrito
  • Muffin Plus
  • NrGize Lifestyle Café
  • O'Burger
  • Panini Pizza Pasta
  • Papa Murphy's
  • Pinkberry
  • Pizza Delight
  • Planet Smoothie
  • PurBlendz
  • Ranch One
  • Rollerz
  • Samurai Sam's Teriyaki Grill
  • Scores
  • South Street Burger
  • Steak Frites St-Paul
  • Sukiyaki
  • Surf City Squeeze
  • Sushi Go
  • Sushi Shop
  • Sushi-Man
  • SweetFrog
  • Tandori
  • Tasti D-Lite
  • TCBY
  • Thaï Express
  • ThaïZone
  • The Counter Custom Burgers
  • The Great Steak & Potato Company
  • The Works Gourmet Burger Bistro
  • Tiki-Ming
  • Timothy's World Coffee
  • Tosto
  • Toujours Mikes
  • Turtle Jack's Muskoka Grill
  • Tutti Frutti
  • Valentine
  • Van Houtte
  • Vanellis
  • Vie & Nam
  • Villa Madina
  • Wasabi Grill & Noodle
  • Yuzu Sushi
Revenue
Increase CA$551.9 million (2021)[1]
  • Increase $3.63 billion (2021; system-wide sales)
Increase $382.6 million (2021)[1]
Increase $169.3 million (2021)[1]
Total assetsDecrease $1.90 billion (2021)[1]
Total equityIncrease $648.9 million (2021)[1]
DivisionsMTY Tiki Ming Enterprises
Taco Time Canada Inc. (founded as taco foods ltd., 1977)
Country Style Food Services Holdings Inc. (founded 1962)
Yogen Fruz Canada Inc. (founded 1986)
SubsidiariesKahala Brands
BBQ Holdings
Websitewww.mtygroup.com
Footnotes / references
[1]

MTY Food Group Inc. is a Canadian franchisor and operator of numerous casual dining, fast casual, and quick service restaurants operating under more than 70 brand names, some of them through wholly owned subsidiaries.[2] Headquartered in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, the number of outlets carrying MTY brands reached 5,500 in 2017. Stanley Ma is the group founder, President and CEO. MTY Food Group's brands include Thaï Express, Country Style, Groupe Valentine, Vanelli's, Extreme Pita, Cultures, La Crémière, Sushi Shop, Veggirama, Caferama, O'burger, Tiki Ming, Vie & Nam, Au Vieux Duluth Express, FranxSupreme, ChicknChick, Croissant Plus, Koya Japan, Kim Chi, Panini, Tandori, Tutti Frutti, Villa Madina Mediterranean Cuisine, Sukiyaki, Taco Time, Yogen Früz, and the Canadian branch of TCBY.

The number of restaurant locations using those brand names more than doubled between 2007 and 2010.[3] Since opening the first Tiki Ming restaurant in 1984, MTY launched ten brands and acquired more than twenty others. Four of the restaurant chains—Vanelli's, Caferama, Sukiyaki, and La Cremiere—also operate in the Middle East.[4] There used to be a computer and technology division named Gold Tech Computer Systems Ltd., but it was spun off in 2003, renaming itself MTY Food Group Inc.[5]

In 2017, most of its restaurants were located in shopping malls and cinema food courts with others located in convenience stores. But by 2019, only 22 percent of its stores were in food courts.[6] The company owes much of its growth to corporate takeovers (in 2013, 80 percent of the company's revenue growth was attributable to acquisitions).[7][8][9] It operates in Canada, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Morocco and in 2009 revenue from franchise fees increased 75 percent.[10][11] It joined the Toronto Stock Exchange as a debt-free company in June 2010. Prior to this it traded on the TSX Venture Exchange for 15 years under four different names.[10][12][13]

Of its 2,700 Canadian units, 98 percent are franchisee owned.[6]

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  7. ^ "MTY 2013 AR" (PDF). February 12, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2015.
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  11. ^ "2nd quarter results MTY Foods Inc". Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  12. ^ king of the food courts, Montreal Gazette, January 8, 2007, archived from the original on November 27, 2013
  13. ^ "MTY Food Group ci". Archived from the original on April 11, 2023. Retrieved July 1, 2010.