Kwick365The Independent Restaurant Index

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Restaurants in the index

Data as of — counted from the menu index on the build date. Recomputed every night.

The national reading

Restaurants in the index

1,978

restaurants

Sep ’26Oct1,9781,957

Restaurants in the index, as published each day7-day average

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Restaurants in the index over the last 365 days. 22 published observations, from September 22, 2026 at 1,957 to October 13, 2026 at 1,978. Sample: counted from the menu index on the build date on October 13, 2026.

Every calendar day from September 22, 2026 to October 13, 2026 carries a published observation, so the line is unbroken.

7-day average: 18 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.

Restaurants in the index over the last 365 days
DayPublished value
September 22, 20261,957
September 23, 20261,958
September 24, 20261,957
September 25, 20261,959
September 26, 20261,961
September 27, 20261,960
September 28, 20261,961
September 29, 20261,962
September 30, 20261,960
October 1, 20261,960
October 2, 20261,962
October 3, 20261,964
October 4, 20261,963
October 5, 20261,969
October 6, 20261,971
October 7, 20261,973
October 8, 20261,975
October 9, 20261,975
October 10, 20261,976
October 11, 20261,975
October 12, 20261,977
October 13, 20261,978
Restaurants in the index, 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. Dated events are not marked on this window — across 365 days a single day is far too narrow for a mark to point at one. They are marked on the 7- and 30-day windows, and the calendar lists every one of them with its source.

+0.4% 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.

Where else to look: Online order channel and Ordered ahead are on Online order ticket; Online orders by hour and Online orders by weekday are on Online orders per restaurant.

Where it publishes

A reading publishes for a place only on a day that clears 30 restaurants there. A row that reads “not enough data” is a place that did not clear it on this day — never a zero, never an estimate.

By metro

Restaurants in the index by metro on October 13, 2026. Metros are approximated from each restaurant’s ZIP code.

Restaurants in the index by metro on October 13, 2026. Metros are approximated from each restaurant’s ZIP code.
MetroRestaurantsRestaurantsSample
Atlanta, GA319319—
Houston, TX176176—
Orlando, FL5757—
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL4141—
San Francisco Bay Area, CA4040—
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX3131—
Tampa Bay, FL3030—
Los Angeles, CA3030—

By state

Restaurants in the index by state on October 13, 2026. Only states that cleared the threshold are listed.

Restaurants in the index by state on October 13, 2026. Only states that cleared the threshold are listed.
StateRestaurantsRestaurantsSample
Georgia397397—
Texas267267—
Florida209209—
California114114—
New York8686—
New Jersey6262—
Tennessee5858—
Alabama5555—
South Carolina5151—
Pennsylvania4646—
Colorado4545—
North Carolina4444—
Virginia4040—
Illinois3636—
Wisconsin3535—
Ohio3333—
Louisiana3333—
Minnesota3232—

States not listed did not clear the threshold on this day.

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The other readings

Every other Kwick365 reading, nationally, as of its own latest published day.

Every other Kwick365 reading, nationally, as of its own latest published day.
ReadingLatestSampleAs of
Online order ticketmedian $ per order$30.14711 restaurants, 8,791 orders
Online tip ratemedian tip ÷ subtotal15.0%711 restaurants, 1,043 tipped orders — 11.9% of 8,791 orders
Items per online orderline items per order2.0711 restaurants, 8,791 orders
Online orders per restaurantorders per active restaurant12.4711 restaurants, 8,791 orders
In-store ticketmedian of each restaurant’s average ticket$31.451,581 restaurants, 116,524 orders
In-store orders per restaurantmedian orders per restaurant59.01,581 restaurants, 116,524 orders
Restaurants trading in storerestaurants1,5811,581 restaurants, 116,524 orders
Median Google ratingstars out of 54.31,663 restaurants with 50 or more Google reviews
Rated 4.5 or bettershare of rated restaurants34.0%1,663 restaurants with 50 or more Google reviews

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