Chris Brown Owns How Many Burger Kings? And Other Surprising Celebrity-Owned Franchise Revelations

Chris Brown loves a good Whopper
Chris Brown loves a good Whopper

In a new installment of Us Weekly's regular "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" segment, Chris Brown reveals that he owns 14 Burger King franchises. But owning franchises of chain restaurants is nothing new for celebrities.

Here are some other stars who are making cash on the side from all the Whoppers you've been ordering.

Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille O'Neal (Getty Images)
Shaquille O'Neal (Getty Images)

Shaq has a fairly hefty holding of restaurants across the country, actually. He reportedly partially owns 155 Five Guys Burgers and Fries stores (of the more than 1,000 locations), and he's something of a pretzel king, owning 17 Auntie Anne's shops.

Peyton Manning

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Peyton Manning (Getty Images)

Peyton Manning just may be the smartest of them all. Just two weeks before voters in Colorado approved an amendment making recreational marijuana legal in the state, the Denver Broncos quarterback bought 21 Papa John's franchises across the state. Now that's just good business.

Rick Ross

You knew that Rick Ross loves jewelry, but did you also know that he loves wings? The rapper bought several Wingstops in Miami. "Miami is my hometown, and I want to share my favorite wings with one of my favorite cities," he said in a statement at the time.

Pitbull

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Pitbull (Getty Images)

He's Miami's favorite son, so it only makes sense that Pitbull should go into franchising with a company with Miami right in the name. But Pitbull didn't just buy a couple Miami Subs; he's an equity partner in the company with the goal of going worldwide. Dale, indeed.

Venus Williams

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Venus Williams (Getty Images)

While she's far less active on the tennis court these days, due to suffering from the autoimmune disease Sjögren's syndrome, Williams has found several other ways to make her money, including opening a couple Jamba Juices in Washington, D.C.

Drew Brees

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Drew Brees (Getty Images)

There's nothing quite like moving to a new city and missing the comfort foods of your hometown. Fortunately, Drew Brees, with a Super Bowl championship under his belt, had the money to remedy that problem. So he opened up a Jimmy John's gourmet sandwich shop in New Orleans. "Honestly, I missed Jimmy John's so much from my time in the Midwest, and I thought that it was a great fit for what we were doing in New Orleans," Brees told Entrepreneur.

NeNe Leakes

In what we swear is not a mad-lib gone horribly awry, NeNe Leakes owns the Famous Famiglia pizza outpost at the Sacramento airport. Unfortunately, it seems like the pizza place has been more of a headache than the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star anticipated; she was reportedly slapped with a tax lien in 2013 after forgetting to pay taxes. Luckily she is very rich.

Magic Johnson

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Magic Johnson (Getty Images)

Magic Johnson is also fairly prolific when it comes to chain restaurant entrepreneurialship. Not only does he own several Starbucks (Starbuckses?), but he also opened a TGI Fridays in Ladera, California. You're welcome, people of Ladera!