The count beside each chain is its Taft openings — not a national figure. The US store count is national and is a different measurement in a different window.
Index entries classified as name collisions, brands embedded inside another business, or virtual-only operators are excluded. An entry the classifier has not yet reached is kept.
Openings are counted from individually verified new locations rather than from the quarter-over-quarter change in a record count.
Every verified opening in Taft
One row per confirmed new location, newest first.
Verified openings in Taft, CA, newest first.
OpenedVintage date the record first appeared
Chain
Domain
City as recordedThe index's raw spelling for this row
The date is the vintage the record was first observed in, not a company announcement date.
Openings are counted from individually verified new locations rather than from the quarter-over-quarter change in a record count.
How this city is written in the index
2 spellings collapse onto taft. They are one city, and the counts above add them together.
Raw spellings of Taft in the openings index, most frequent first.
Spelling as recorded
Opening records
Role
Taft
2
Displayed name — the most frequent spelling
TAFT
1
Merged into the displayed name
The URL slug is derived from the spelling by lower-casing it, folding accents and replacing every other character with a hyphen, so accented and punctuated spellings of one place resolve to one page.