There is mounting growth in new restaurant chain stores and new restaurant independents. New opening activity is hovering at 500 new starts per week. We have rebounded to 70% of normal growth since the rolling shutdowns began. New starts are derived from legal and license filings and most would have applied for new stores within the last 1 to 2 weeks. For live, free samples please contact us.
Significant and stubbornly, new sit-down service style restaurants are still more than 50% of all new openings,
Within 2 weeks we will be issuing fresh counts of chain store closings from a full run in the month of August versus July.. The universe of chain stores is more than 235K locations(Hint-it\’s not going to be what you think). Contact us for fresh, free samples.
| Legal Filings Week ending 08/13/2020 | ||||||
| DBA\’s | Incs & LLC\’s | Total Permits and Licenses | Total Raw | Total Net Issued | ||
| 8/13/2020 | 477 | 473 | 116 | 1066 | 502 | |
| 8/6/2020 | 553 | 445 | 80 | 1158 | 462 | |
| 7/30/2020 | 578 | 258 | 78 | 992 | 503 | |
| 7/23/2020 | 327 | 397 | 86 | 724 | 358 | |
| 7/16/2020 | 389 | 444 | 125 | 958 | 474 | |
| 7/9/2020 | 722 | 360 | 143 | 1368 | 582 | |
| 6/25/2020 | 296 | 311 | 104 | 711 | 354 | |
| 6/18/2020 | 433 | 382 | 95 | 815 | 396 | |
| 6/11/2020 | 265 | 98 | 67 | 497 | 264 | |
| 6/4/2020 | 447 | 235 | 80 | 762 | 358 | |
| 5/28/2020 | 414 | 187 | 90 | 691 | 316 | |
| 5/21/2020 | 317 | 374 | 85 | 776 | 304 | |
| 5/14/2020 | 352 | 350 | 99 | 801 | 356 | |
| 5/7/2020 | 403 | 186 | 98 | 679 | 316 | |
| 4/30/2020 | 337 | 217 | 124 | 678 | 324 | |
| 4/23/2020 | 396 | 464 | 110 | 970 | 385 | |
| 4/16/2020 | 405 | 300 | 133 | 839 | 532 | |
| 4/9/2020 | 385 | 197 | 109 | 691 | 192 | |
| 4/2/2020 | 130 | 371 | 133 | 639 | 327 | |
| 3/26/2020 | 160 | 524 | 160 | 844 | 301 | |
| Numbers of Sit-Down VS. Counter Service | ||||||
| Sit down | Counter Service | |||||
| 8/13/2020 | 232 | 227 | ||||
| 8/6/2020 | 231 | 197 | ||||
| 7/30/2020 | 266 | 218 | ||||
| 7/23/2020 | 178 | 157 | ||||
| 7/16/2020 | 228 | 216 | ||||
| 7/9/2020 | 309 | 229 | ||||
| 6/25/2020 | 190 | 131 | ||||
| 6/18/2020 | 213 | 159 | ||||
| 6/11/2020 | 122 | 124 | ||||
| 6/4/2020 | 174 | 151 | ||||
| 5/28/2020 | 155 | 137 | ||||
| 5/21/2020 | 159 | 107 | ||||
| 5/14/2020 | 170 | 154 | ||||
| 5/7/2020 | 170 | 133 | ||||
| 4/30/2020 | 158 | 130 | ||||
| 4/23/2020 | 185 | 148 | ||||
| 4/16/2020 | 253 | 233 | ||||
| 4/9/2020 | 108 | 71 | ||||
| 4/2/2020 | 181 | 134 | ||||
| 3/26/2020 | 270 | 25 | ||||
| Number of Chain Locations VS. Independent Locations | ||||||
| Chain stores | Independent stores | |||||
| 8/13/2020 | 63 | 422 | ||||
| 8/6/2020 | 48 | 397 | ||||
| 7/30/2020 | 53 | 439 | ||||
| 7/23/2020 | 32 | 315 | ||||
| 7/16/2020 | 47 | 409 | ||||
| 7/9/2020 | 81 | 476 | ||||
| 6/25/2020 | 36 | 308 | ||||
| 6/18/2020 | 29 | 359 | ||||
| 6/11/2020 | 42 | 212 | ||||
| 6/4/2020 | 57 | 274 | ||||
| 5/28/2020 | 40 | 258 | ||||
| 5/21/2020 | 23 | 257 | ||||
| 5/14/2020 | 50 | 288 | ||||
| 5/7/2020 | 28 | 268 | ||||
| 4/30/2020 | 44 | 280 | ||||
| 4/23/2020 | 48 | 315 | ||||
| 4/16/2020 | 50 | 475 | ||||
| 4/9/2020 | 20 | 172 | ||||
| 4/2/2020 | 43 | 284 | ||||
| 3/26/2020 | 25 | 249 |