Liquor – Restaurants. The top three most Googled restaurants in 2011 were all pizza chains - Pizza Hut, Domino's and Papa John's . LiquorWise picked up on this on Google’s 11th annual Zeitgeist list. This list ranks the most popular and the fastest-rising search terms.

As part of the broader lifestyle category, the top 10 restaurants searched in the U.S. this year were:

Up and comers

Globally, a couple of quick-service and fast casual brands were listed among the fastest-rising food and drink terms searched. Wendy's topped the list, Little Caesars is No. 3, followed by Chick-fil-A. At No. 7 is Jimmy John's, followed by Buffalo Wild Wings (No. and Popeyes' Louisiana Kitchen (No. 9).

The global search included countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand).

Search results of note

Pizza, in general, was the top searched food and drink item in Singapore, Germany and Mexico. This is likely good news for California Pizza Kitchen andChuck E. Cheese's, both of which have expanded their footprints in Mexico in the past few months.

The top searched item in the food category in New Zealand was the "Double Down Burger”, a KFC bun-less burger, which has become the most successful sandwich launch in KFC history. More than 10 million Double Downs were sold in the U.S. in the first month alone.

(Article from www.fastcasual.com, edited by LiquorWise)