You're Not Alone:

The restaurant business is dynamic and forever changing. As a startup restaurateur you are part of a growth business, which is dramatically illustrated by the figures on this map and in the statistics listed below. Every day hundreds of new restaurant operations open and become vital parts of not only their local communities but an important element of the entire nation's economy. Your startup offers customers a valuable service while it creates employment for others, and independence for you and your family.

Click here to see the statistics for May 2010 throughout the U.S.