Kwick365The Independent Restaurant Index

Metro

Houston, TX

Data as of — 176 independent restaurants here are in the index. Metro boundaries are approximated from each restaurant’s mailing ZIP code, so a reading covers the ZIP prefixes listed on the methodology page, not a census boundary.

The lead reading

Online order ticket

$35.51

median $ per order

Oct ’25Jan ’26AprJulOct$49.72$32.17

Online order ticket, as published each day7-day average

This chart as text

Online order ticket over the last 365 days. 361 published observations, from October 14, 2025 at $34.46 to October 13, 2026 at $35.51. Sample: 69 restaurants, 705 orders on October 13, 2026.

This series is not continuous. It is drawn as 5 separate lines with 4 gaps between them, and no line is drawn across a gap. The longest gap is 1 day, between October 26, 2025 and October 28, 2025. Days with too little data to publish are left out rather than filled in.

7-day average: 361 calculated points, drawn only on days the published series itself has and never across a gap. It is arithmetic on Kwick365’s published daily readings, not a measurement of its own. A point near the start of this window also averages published days from up to 6 days before the window begins. Those are published readings too, but they are neither drawn on the chart nor listed in the table below.

This window is too long to list day by day, so the table groups the 361 observations by calendar month. Every figure in it is a published day, named by its own date.

Online order ticket over the last 365 days, by month
MonthDays publishedFirstLast
October 202517Oct 14 — $34.46Oct 31 — $37.89
November 202528Nov 1 — $40.06Nov 30 — $41.07
December 202531Dec 1 — $34.41Dec 31 — $42.62
January 202630Jan 1 — $44.34Jan 31 — $41.00
February 202628Feb 1 — $42.22Feb 28 — $40.05
March 202631Mar 1 — $42.26Mar 31 — $35.18
April 202630Apr 1 — $37.89Apr 30 — $36.81
May 202631May 1 — $39.84May 31 — $41.03
June 202630Jun 1 — $35.83Jun 30 — $36.91
July 202631Jul 1 — $37.48Jul 31 — $37.59
August 202631Aug 1 — $39.75Aug 31 — $34.74
September 202630Sep 1 — $35.40Sep 30 — $36.48
October 202613Oct 1 — $34.73Oct 13 — $35.51
Online order ticket, daily through October 13, 2026, over a 365-day window. The scale covers the range of the data, not zero. Days with too little data to publish are left out. The 7-day average is calculated by Kwick365 from the published daily readings, not measured separately: each point is the mean of the days that published within the 7 calendar days ending on it. It is not drawn at all where fewer than 5 of those 7 days published, so it breaks wherever the daily line breaks and never averages across a gap.

−2.1% vs a week earlier−2.9% vs a year earlier

69 restaurants, 705 orders

The median total of a completed online order — what the guest paid, including tip and fees, after discounts.

Every reading here

Online tip rate

Not enough data

Published once a day here clears 30 restaurants and 500 tipped orders. Nothing is estimated in the meantime.

Median tip ÷ subtotal over orders that tipped; incidence = share of orders with a tip.

Items per online order

3.0

line items per order

no change vs a week earlierno change vs a year earlier

69 restaurants, 705 orders

Line items per order (not units): a single line of "3 × taco" counts once.

Online orders per restaurant

10.2

orders per active restaurant

−2.8% vs a week earlier−6.6% vs a year earlier

69 restaurants, 705 orders

Online orders ÷ stores with at least one online order that day.

In-store ticket

$38.03

median of each restaurant’s average ticket

−1.9% vs a week earlier+0.3% vs a year earlier

137 restaurants, 9,261 orders

Median of each store’s average in-store ticket that day.

In-store orders per restaurant

61.0

median orders per restaurant

no change vs a week earlierno change vs a year earlier

137 restaurants, 9,261 orders

The median number of in-store orders a restaurant rang up that day.

Restaurants trading in store

137

restaurants

−0.7% vs a week earlier+44% vs a year earlier

137 restaurants, 9,261 orders

How many restaurants rang up at least one in-store order that day.

Restaurants in the index

176

restaurants

+1.1% vs a week earlier

counted from the menu index on the build date

Independent restaurants live in the network on the day the index was built.

Median Google rating

4.4

stars out of 5

no change vs a week earlier

152 restaurants with 50 or more Google reviews

The median Google rating of restaurants in the index with at least 50 reviews.

Rated 4.5 or better

44.1%

share of rated restaurants

+0.2% vs a week earlier

152 restaurants with 50 or more Google reviews

The share of restaurants with at least 50 Google reviews that are rated 4.5 or higher.

When the orders came in

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This chart as text

Share of online orders by hour of day on October 13, 2026. 24 hours. Sample: 705 orders.

Share of online orders by hour of day on October 13, 2026
HourShare of the day's orders
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010.0%
020.0%
030.0%
040.0%
050.0%
060.0%
070.0%
080.0%
090.1%
101.0%
118.9%
128.4%
136.4%
144.4%
156.1%
169.2%
1713.8%
1817.6%
1915.0%
207.5%
211.4%
220.1%
230.0%
Share of the day’s completed online orders placed in each hour on October 13, 2026, across 705 orders here. The 6 pm–7 pm hour was the busiest, taking 17.6% of the day. Times are recorded on the POS platform’s clock, not local time.

Price indexes here

A price index needs 30 matching menu items from 15 restaurants in the same place on the same day, so most dishes publish nationally long before they publish locally. Nothing is estimated for the ones that have not.

Median listed menu prices here, each as of its own latest published day.

Median listed menu prices here, each as of its own latest published day.
ReadingLatestSampleAs of
Taco (single)median listed price, per tacoNot enough data yet
Burritomedian listed price, eachNot enough data yet
Pho (regular bowl)median listed price, per bowlNot enough data yet
Pizza slicemedian listed price, per sliceNot enough data yet
Large pizzamedian listed price, per pieNot enough data yet
Burger (basic)median listed price, eachNot enough data yet
California rollmedian listed price, per roll$6.9530 menu items from 25 restaurants
Ramen (basic bowl)median listed price, per bowl$14.95153 menu items from 31 restaurants
Wings (10 pc)median listed price, per 10 pcNot enough data yet
Chicken fried ricemedian listed price, per order$11.9063 menu items from 52 restaurants
Pad Thaimedian listed price, per orderNot enough data yet
Coffee (regular drip)median listed price, per cupNot enough data yet
Margarita (house)median listed price, eachNot enough data yet

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