Arby's is a fast food restaurant chain in the United States and Canada that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wendy's/Arby's Group, Inc. It is primarily known for selling roast beef sandwiches, chicken sandwiches, curly fries, and popcorn chicken. The company's target market attempts to be more adult-oriented than other fast food restaurants.

The Arby's menu also includes appetizers, salads, Market Fresh (deli-style) sandwiches, wraps, and submarine sandwiches. There are 3,688 Arby’s restaurants in the United States and Canada. As of December 30, 2007, there were 1,106 stores-owned by corporate and 2,582 Arby’s restaurants owned by 462 franchisees.

Of the 2,582 franchisee-owned restaurants, 2,458 operate within the United States and 124 are outside the United States, principally in Canada. It owns the franchise T.J. Cinnamons that as of December 2007, has 243 locations with 225 multi-branded with company stores. They also have six multi-branded Pasta Connections.

They are currently only franchising the T.J. Cinnamons brand. Eight years ago, Arby's opened a new "prototype" restaurant in Colonial Heights, VA which featured the regular Arby's menu, plus Mexican, rotisserie chicken/vegetable, and Eskimo Pie lines. It, along with the other "prototype" in the West End of Richmond, VA, is the biggest Arby's in the world.

They both feature the expansive menus and have elegant interior design and spacious seating and expansive ceilings. Arby's was founded in Ohio in 1964 by Forrest and Leroy Raffel, owners of a restaurant equipment business who believed there was a market opportunity for a fast food franchise based on a food other than hamburgers. The brothers wanted to call their restaurants "Big Tex," but that name was being used by an Akron business.

Instead, they chose the name "Arby's," based on R.B., the initials of Raffel Brothers (and the initials for "Roast Beef"). Some allege that the name also stands for America's Roast Beef, Yes, Sir.[citation needed] (which was used as a slogan for a time during the early 1980s)

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