Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is by far the best-performing restaurant stock of the last generation.
Since its 1992 IPO, the coffee giant’s shares are up more than 18,000%, and it is now the second-most valuable restaurant chain, behind McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD). If Starbucks continues to add another 2,000 stores a year, it’s likely to eclipse McDonald’s in the next five or 10 years.