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The United States restaurant industry was projected at $899 billion in sales for 2020 by the National Restaurant Association, the main trade association for the industry in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An estimated 99% of companies in the industry are family-owned small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. [ 3 ]
The restaurant industry in the United States is large and quickly growing, with 10 million workers. 1 in every 12 U.S. residents work in the business, and during the 2008 recession, the industry was an anomaly in that it continued to grow. Restaurants are known for having low wages, which they claim are due to thin profit margins of 4-5%.
Following the rise of fast food and take-out restaurants, a retronym for the older "standard" restaurant was created, sit-down restaurant. Most commonly, "sit-down restaurant" refers to a casual- dining restaurant with table service , rather than a fast food restaurant or a diner , where one orders food at a counter .
McDonald's has more than 100 menu choices for its customers, which is simply bad for business. A larger menu implies more ingredients, labor, equipment, and more importantly a staff that needs to ...
The restaurant industry was hit first and worst when COVID-19 closed the economy.According to the National Restaurant Association, businesses laid off or furloughed 8 million hospitality workers ...
In 2015 the United Kingdom hospitality industry employed around 2.9m people – around 9% of the UK workforce. [12] By employment, it is the UK's fourth-largest industry. The most jobs in the industry are found in London (around 500,000) and South East England (around 400,000); 18% of workers in the UK industry are in London. There are around 1 ...
Nearly 3.5 million parents work in the restaurant industry and more than 1 million of those are single mothers, 40% of whom live in poverty, according to a 2016 report by the National Women’s ...
This is a list of the largest fast-food restaurant chains by their number of locations in the world. Country of origin Name Number of locations Revenue 1 China