Kwick365The Independent Restaurant Index

The day

Independent restaurants on April 16, 2026

Data as of — 7 readings published, each with the number of restaurants behind it. Days with too little data to publish are not on this page at all.

What moved

Nothing moved by 3% or more against the day before. That is the ordinary case: these are medians over thousands of restaurants, and they mostly walk rather than jump.

Everything published on this day

Every Kwick365 reading and price index with a published cell for April 16, 2026. A dash in a change column means there was no comparable earlier day to measure against.

Every Kwick365 reading and price index published on April 16, 2026.
ReadingValue vs the day beforevs a week before Sample
Online order ticket median $ per order $32.37 +1.8% −0.2% 799 restaurants, 9,423 orders
Online tip rate median tip ÷ subtotal 15.0% no change no change 799 restaurants, 1,357 tipped orders — 14.4% of 9,423 orders
Items per online order line items per order 2.0 no change no change 799 restaurants, 9,423 orders
Online orders per restaurant orders per active restaurant 11.8 −1.3% −2.7% 799 restaurants, 9,423 orders
In-store ticket median of each restaurant’s average ticket $32.18 +0.4% −0.9% 1,617 restaurants, 131,555 orders
In-store orders per restaurant median orders per restaurant 65.0 +1.6% no change 1,617 restaurants, 131,555 orders
Restaurants trading in store restaurants 1,617 +1.3% +1.4% 1,617 restaurants, 131,555 orders

How the metros ranked

Of the 2 metros that cleared the publication threshold on this day, Houston, TX ($35.18) was the highest and Atlanta, GA ($31.09) the lowest.

Median online order ticket by metro on April 16, 2026.

Median online order ticket by metro on April 16, 2026.
MetroMedian $ per orderRestaurantsOrders
Houston, TX$35.1867785
Atlanta, GA$31.091392,056
Orlando, FLNot enough data on this day
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FLNot enough data on this day
San Francisco Bay Area, CANot enough data on this day
Dallas-Fort Worth, TXNot enough data on this day
Los Angeles, CANot enough data on this day
Tampa Bay, FLNot enough data on this day

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