Industry · NAICS 722511

Full-service restaurants

The United States has 258,626 employer establishments in full-service restaurants (7.7 per 10,000 residents), employing 5,387,020 people at an average annual pay of $28,018, plus 69,716 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments: 258,626; 69,716 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 7.7
Paid employees: 5,387,020
Average annual pay: $28,018

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places

State

Size

Full-service restaurants by residents per establishment
#	Place					vs US
1	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	153,197	46	3,330	3	0.39×	647	$27,541	9
2	Logan, UT-ID	158,554	50	3,171	3.2	0.41×	1,275	$19,613	8
3	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	739,116	245	3,017	3.3	0.43×	5,397	$21,443	71
4	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	824,794	301	2,740	3.6	0.48×	7,291	$24,984	306
5	Ogden, UT	660,366	247	2,674	3.7	0.49×	5,908	$21,858	69
6	Merced, CA	294,319	117	2,516	4	0.52×	1,581	$26,801	38
7	El Centro, CA	180,683	73	2,475	4	0.53×	1,275	$26,740	35
8	Farmington, NM	120,754	51	2,368	4.2	0.55×	1,680	$22,288	13
9	Lebanon, PA	144,706	62	2,334	4.3	0.56×	1,493	$23,344	14
10	Alexandria, LA	148,419	64	2,319	4.3	0.56×	1,491	$22,808	17
11	Yuma, AZ	214,228	93	2,304	4.3	0.57×	2,244	$23,392	50
12	Corbin, KY	149,593	65	2,301	4.3	0.57×	1,511	$19,553	9
13	Anderson Creek, NC	141,772	62	2,287	4.4	0.57×	966	$19,484	16
14	Salem, OH	100,060	45	2,224	4.5	0.59×	876	$18,016	16
15	Tuscaloosa, AL	279,756	127	2,203	4.5	0.59×	3,201	$22,639	37
16	Yuba City, CA	184,402	84	2,195	4.6	0.59×	1,552	$25,795	21
17	Visalia, CA	480,816	223	2,156	4.6	0.60×	3,568	$26,391	56
18	Las Cruces, NM	225,966	105	2,152	4.6	0.61×	3,136	$21,943	47
19	Lumberton, NC	118,005	55	2,146	4.7	0.61×	946	$16,763	14
20	York-Hanover, PA	466,068	218	2,138	4.7	0.61×	5,502	$21,329	61
21	Sumter, SC	104,396	49	2,131	4.7	0.61×	1,270	$16,378	18
22	Sherman-Denison, TX	147,072	70	2,101	4.8	0.62×	1,647	$24,455	40
23	Greeley, CO	360,971	172	2,099	4.8	0.62×	3,226	$26,706	33
24	Wooster, OH	116,551	56	2,081	4.8	0.63×	1,297	$22,781	5
25	Wichita Falls, TX	149,635	72	2,078	4.8	0.63×	2,152	$21,076	23

1–25 of 398 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $15.5K on contracts under NAICS 722511 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (4 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)

See open recompetes in NAICS 722511

In the United States

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Federal contracts in this industry

Metro areas

Counties

Cities and towns