Week ending 7/30/2020.

More than 500 (net) new openings last week. There were no holidays in the way or remnant issues that could tilt the numbers.

	Legal Filings Week ending 07/30/2020
	DBA\’s	Incs & LLC\’s	Total Permits and Licenses	Total Raw	Total Net Issued
3/26/2020	160	524	160	844	301
4/2/2020	130	371	133	639	327
4/9/2020	385	197	109	691	192
4/16/2020	405	300	133	839	532
4/23/2020	396	464	110	970	385
4/30/2020	337	217	124	678	324
5/7/2020	403	186	98	679	316
5/14/2020	352	350	99	801	356
5/21/2020	317	374	85	776	304
5/28/2020	414	187	90	691	316
6/4/2020	447	235	80	762	358
6/11/2020	265	98	67	497	264
6/18/2020	433	382	95	815	396
6/25/2020	296	311	104	711	354
7/9/2020	722	360	143	1368	582
7/16/2020	389	444	125	958	474
7/23/2020	327	397	86	724	358
7/30/2020	578	258	78	992	503

New openings are derived from legal filings. Filers would have filed in the previous week.

Sit down is stubbornly more than 50% of all new openings.

	Numbers of Sit-Down VS. Counter Service
	Sit down	Counter Service
3/26/2020	270	25
4/2/2020	181	134
4/9/2020	108	71
4/16/2020	253	233
4/23/2020	185	148
4/30/2020	158	130
5/7/2020	170	133
5/14/2020	170	154
5/21/2020	159	107
5/28/2020	155	137
6/4/2020	174	151
6/11/2020	122	124
6/18/2020	213	159
6/25/2020	190	131
7/9/2020	309	229
7/16/2020	228	216
7/23/2020	178	157
7/30/2020	266	218

Chains are still super hesitant with around 10-15% of new openings compared to approximately 35% pre-COVID

	Number of Chain Locations VS. Independent Locations
	Chain stores	Independent stores
3/26/2020	25	249
4/2/2020	43	284
4/9/2020	20	172
4/16/2020	50	475
4/23/2020	48	315
4/30/2020	44	280
5/7/2020	28	268
5/14/2020	50	288
5/21/2020	23	257
5/28/2020	40	258
6/4/2020	57	274
6/11/2020	42	212
6/18/2020	29	359
6/25/2020	36	308
7/9/2020	81	476
7/16/2020	47	409
7/23/2020	32	315
7/30/2020	53	439