In 1993 Henry J. McGovern, Donald M. Kendall, Sr., Donald M. Kendall, Jr. and Christian R.

Eisenbeiss established American Restaurants Services. Initially, the company held franchise rights
to operate Pizza Hut and KFC restaurants in western Poland. In 1998, it expanded its operations
outside Poland, by taking over KFC and Pizza Hut locations in the Czech Republic which were
previously run by Yum! Brands.

In 2000, AmRest Holdings was formed as a joint venture company between American Restaurants
and Yum! Brands, and in 2001 the new company took over International Fast Food Polska, the
operator of the Burger King locations in Poland. Out of the 23 Burger King restaurants acquired, the
Company closed 6 and rebranded the remaining 17 into KFC. In 2005, the company acquired the
remaining franchise for Yum! concepts in the Czech Republic and Poland becoming the exclusive
KFC and Pizza Hut franchisee in those countries. In 2006 AmRest bought the rights to seventeen
KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in Hungary and launched new Freshpoint and Rodeo Drive brands.

AmRest debuted on the stock market in April 2005 April and Yum exited the company as a
shareholder. In May 2005 AmRest acquired 8 Big Food restaurants in Czech Republic, and
rebranded them into KFC.

In 2007 AmRest opened its first new Burger King restaurant in Poland, the first KFC restaurants in
Serbia and Bulgaria and signed joint venture agreements with Starbucks about opening the coffee
chain's stores in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. In 2008 company signed agreements
about opening Burger King in Bulgaria and acquired several restaurants in the Russia. In January
2008 AmRest opened first Starbucks store in Prague. The company opened its first Starbucks
location in Poland in 2008.

In May 2008, AmRest acquired 80% shares in Apple Grove Holding, the second biggest Applebee's
franchisee in the United States.[2]

In April 2010, Warburg Pincus, a premier private equity firm, offered to invest over 300 million pln
for a 24.99% shareholding in AmRest.[3] In 2010, AmRest also opened the first Starbucks in
Hungary.

In April 2011 AmRest announced the acquisition of Spanish company Restauravia, operating 30
KFC's and over 120 Italian Casual Dining restaurants La Tagliatella. La Tagliatella was announced
to be one of the main drivers of AmRest's global expansion. But the result of AmRest's attempts
since 2012 for developing La Tagliatella chain of restaurants outside Spain was without succes.[4]
Locations opened in China, India and the United States closed quickly. The subsidiary in France,
which operates the group's five restaurants, generated a loss of 2.9 million euros in 2017, a total of
11.7 million euros since 2012.

AmRest LLC, which operated 102 Applebee's restaurants in United States was sold to American
Apple Group, largest franchisee of Applebee's on June 7, 2012.

On December 14, 2012 AmRest auired Blue Frog and Kabba restaurant brands in China.