America's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2026
    Preliminary entrant · Rank not final

    First Watch

    Industry
    Restaurants & Hospitality
    HQ city
    Bradenton, FL
    Employees
    10,000+ employees

    First Watch appears as a preliminary entrant on America's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® 2026. The final ranking, validated SPARK scores, employee testimony, and editorial profile will publish when BPI's 2026 research cycle closes.

    Historical RecordFeatured in Newsweek · 2021–2025→

    BPI was the exclusive research authority for Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces® 2021–2025. The MLW program now publishes independently.

    Best Practice Institute

    Best Practice Institute is the research organization behind Most Loved Workplace® certification, the SPARK Model, the Love of Workplace Index™ (LOWI™), and The Workplace Report.

    The Workplace Report

    The Workplace Report is BPI's original workplace culture research and editorial briefing series for CEOs, CHROs, people leaders, talent leaders, and employer-brand teams. It turns BPI's 25 years of research, Most Loved Workplace® certification data, SPARK findings, and current workforce signals into practical analysis leaders can use.

    The report format includes executive summaries, research-backed articles, company examples, methodology notes, and practical implications for retention, hiring, culture, leadership, and employee experience. New research and analysis is published on an ongoing editorial cadence at /workplace-report.