In June 2025, the U.S. restaurant industry received a performance index score of ***. One year prior, the industry received an index score of *****. The restaurant industry performance index is a statistical barometer measuring the overall health of the U.S. restaurant industry. The index is based on the results of the monthly Restaurant Industry Tracking Survey composed of a variety of indicators including sales, traffic, labor and capital expenditures. A value above 100 indicates a period of expansion while a value below 100 indicates a period of contraction.

In 2024, full service restaurant sales in the United States reached *** billion U.S. dollars, showing growth over the previous year. This figure was forecast by the source to grow to *** billion U.S. dollars in 2025.

This statistic shows the restaurant industry food and drink sales in the United States from 1970 to 2017. In 2016, food and drink sales of the U.S. restaurant industry amounted to approximately *** billion U.S. dollars.

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U.S. restaurant industry - additional information

In 2016, food and drink sales in the United States restaurant industry amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars, up from ***** billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Restaurants in the United States have created a booming industry that employed more than ** million people nationwide in 2015.

Unsurprisingly, the majority of food and drink sales in the U.S. restaurant industry take place in commercial restaurants. In 2016, full-service restaurant sales amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars and limited-service sales were *** U.S. dollars. The second largest contributor in 2015 was retail, vending, recreation and mobile vendors with sales of ***** billion U.S. dollars. The smallest proportion came from came from bars and taverns.

As of December 2016, things were still looking up for the U.S. restaurant industry: the monthly Restaurant Industry Tracking Survey, conducted by the National Restaurant Association, recorded a performance index score of ***** – any score over 100 indicates a period of expansion. The lowest performance index score between 2011 and 2017, ****, was recorded in August 2011. In November 2016, ** percent of U.S. consumers reported that cheaper restaurants would make them dine out more often.

Number of Businesses statistics on the Fast Food Restaurants industry in the US

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The global restaurant industry was seriously impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Social distancing measures and general caution towards public places caused many consumers to dine out less. According to the source, the year-over-year change of seated diners in restaurants worldwide, compared to 2019, was **** percent on August 1, 2022. Has the global online food delivery sector grown due to COVID-19? The market size of the global online food delivery sector was estimated to total ***** billion U.S. dollars in 2022, a figure that is forecast to grow to over *** billion U.S. dollars by 2027. Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and a subsequent lack of in-house dining, worldwide digital restaurant food delivery grew across various countries from 2019 to 2020. Digital delivery services are defined as meals or snacks ordered via mobile app, internet, or text message. In total, digital restaurant delivery increased ** percent globally, with the United States increasing the most at *** percent. What is the leading restaurant chain worldwide? When looking at the global restaurant landscape, the majority of the biggest brands are quick service restaurants (QSRs). In a 2021 ranking of the most valuable quick service brands worldwide, McDonald's came out on top, reaching a brand value of ***** billion U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, Starbucks was a not so close second place, at approximately **** billion U.S. dollars.

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The global fast casual restaurants market size was USD 179.19 billion in 2024 & is projected to grow from USD 191.02 billion in 2025 to USD 318.52 billion by 2033.
Report Scope:

Seasonally adjusted receipts of monthly survey of food services and drinking places, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), monthly, for five months of data.

This table contains 206 series, with data for years 1990 - 2007 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2008-09-19. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (15 items: Canada; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Service type (8 items: Total; Limited service restaurants; Food service contractors; Full service restaurants ...), Service detail (2 items: Receipts; Locations ...).

This statistic shows the revenue of casual dining restaurants in the United States from 2002 to 2014, with a forecast to 2020. In 2013, the revenue of the casual restaurant industry in the United States generated **** billion U.S. dollars.
Casual dining restaurants – additional information

Restaurants in the casual dining segment are generally defined as those which serve moderately priced food in an informal atmosphere. These restaurants usually provide table service, albeit to a lower standard than upscale restaurants. Since the year 2000, the revenue of casual restaurants in the United States has grown annually with the exclusion of 2009 when there was a *** percent drop. The industry is forecasted to increase by around ** billion U.S. dollars between 2014 and 2020, despite predicted negative growth in 2017.

According to a brand index ranking, which scored restaurants by consumers’ positive or negative perception of the brand, Olive Garden ranked the highest in the U.S. casual restaurant industry, followed by Panera Bread and Outback Steakhouse. Olive Garden is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns several other casual dining restaurant chains including LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, and the Yard House. In the 2016 fiscal year, the revenue of Darden Restaurants reached **** billion U.S. dollars, the highest revenue the company had seen since a peak of **** billion U.S. dollars in 2009.

In a 2015 ranking of full-service restaurant companies, Darden restaurants ranked third in terms of number of units in operation, with ***** restaurants. DineEquity ranked first with ***** units, more than double that of Darden. DineEquity is the umbrella company for the casual restaurant brands Applebee’s Grill & Bar and the International House of Pancakes (IHOP). The revenue of DineEquity has been in decline since 2008, reaching its apex in 2013 at *** million U.S. dollars. As of 2015, revenues had increased to *** million U.S. dollars, but this is still almost *** billion U.S. dollars less than the amount seen in 2008.

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This dataset presents aggregated transformational (non-operational) revenues for Qatar’s hotels and restaurants sector. It includes interest income, insurance claims, asset and raw material sale profits, and dividend earnings. Data is broken down by revenue item and main activity type. Values are reported in thousands of Qatari Riyals (QR).

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Context

This Dataset contains the data compiled by Technomic and reported by Restaurant Business magazine, the top 100 most popular restaurant chains in the United States in terms of the latest 2020 sales which were responsible for three-fourths of the total industry sales growth last year.

Content

The data was obtained from the Restaurant Business magazine website. The columns contain stats such as position of restaurant chains, 2020 U.S. sales, YOY sales change, 2020 U.S. units, YOY unit change, segment and menu types. This data can be found from the website https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/top-500-chains with detailed analysis.

Inspiration

While 2016 was a rough year for chain restaurants, more than half of the industry wealth of $521.9 billion still comes from the Top 500 chains and nearly 94% of those dollars and 93% of those units are represented in the Top 250. These stats have made me curious to find out interesting profit patterns from this dataset.

Dataset Usage

This Dataset can be used to study interesting patterns using various classification techniques and arrive at some exciting conclusions. One can create amazing visualisations using the different columns of the dataset. We can also find out and design an effective business model from the given dataset and take one step closer to your most successful restaurant chain startup ever!

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