What is the average size of a restaurant in the US?
- restaurants with fewer than 50 employees – 90%
- restaurants that are single unit operations – 70%
- restaurant locations in the US – 1 million
- restaurant industry employees – 14 million
- restaurant workforce as part of US workforce – 10%
- restaurant industry sales – $709.2 billion
- restaurant industry sales on a typical day – $1.9 billion
- restaurant industry sales increase in nominal terms – 3.8%
- restaurant industry sales increase in real (inflation-adjusted) terms – 1.5%
- restaurant industry sales share of US GDP – 4%
- restaurant industry share of the food dollar – 47%
- new restaurant jobs created by 2025 – 1.7 million
- restaurant managers who started at entry level – 90%
- restaurant owners who started their industry career in entry-level position – 80%
