SLIDESHOW: Feast Your Eyes - 8 Restaurant Chains To Watch In 2014

Resturants are hard work, for owners, managers and staff. And they can be a risky business, with a failure rate of about 60 percent within the first three years.

But there are also eating establishments whose popularity have turned them into major companies and household names, both in the U.S. and overseas. Here are some restaurant chains -- some new, some quite established --  with intriguing stories and financial data: