Kwick365The Independent Restaurant Index

State

California

Data as of — 114 independent restaurants here are in the index. A state reading covers every one of them, including the ones outside the metros below.

The lead reading

Online order ticket

$45.60

median $ per order

Sep ’26Oct$48.05$41.66
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Online order ticket over the last 30 days. 13 published observations, from September 12, 2026 at $44.07 to October 11, 2026 at $45.60. Sample: 35 restaurants, 549 orders on October 11, 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 5 days, between October 3, 2026 and October 9, 2026. Days with too little data to publish are left out rather than filled in.

Online order ticket over the last 30 days
DayPublished value
September 12, 2026$44.07
September 13, 2026$42.93
September 18, 2026$45.59
September 19, 2026$48.05
September 20, 2026$44.12
September 25, 2026$46.55
September 26, 2026$45.63
September 27, 2026$47.73
October 2, 2026$42.86
October 3, 2026$45.47
October 9, 2026$41.66
October 10, 2026$44.79
October 11, 2026$45.60
Online order ticket, daily through October 11, 2026, over a 30-day window. The scale covers the range of the data, not zero. Days with too little data to publish are left out.

+0.3% vs a week earlier+2.9% vs a year earlier

35 restaurants, 549 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

35 restaurants, 549 orders

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

Online orders per restaurant

15.7

orders per active restaurant

+14% vs a week earlier−9.0% vs a year earlier

35 restaurants, 549 orders

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

In-store ticket

$36.67

median of each restaurant’s average ticket

+0.7% vs a week earlier+1.1% vs a year earlier

90 restaurants, 5,155 orders

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

In-store orders per restaurant

50.5

median orders per restaurant

+15% vs a week earlier−14% vs a year earlier

90 restaurants, 5,155 orders

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

Restaurants trading in store

90

restaurants

−1.1% vs a week earlier+27% vs a year earlier

90 restaurants, 5,155 orders

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

Restaurants in the index

114

restaurants

no change 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

4.3

stars out of 5

no change vs a week earlier

90 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

33.3%

share of rated restaurants

no change vs a week earlier

90 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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Share of online orders by hour of day on October 11, 2026. 24 hours. Sample: 549 orders.

Share of online orders by hour of day on October 11, 2026
HourShare of the day's orders
000.0%
010.0%
020.0%
030.0%
040.0%
050.0%
060.0%
070.4%
080.4%
090.2%
101.5%
114.4%
126.0%
134.9%
145.5%
155.1%
1614.4%
1715.7%
1816.8%
1914.0%
205.6%
212.2%
222.6%
230.5%
Share of the day’s completed online orders placed in each hour on October 11, 2026, across 549 orders here. The 6 pm–7 pm hour was the busiest, taking 16.8% 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 rollNot enough data yet
Ramen (basic bowl)median listed price, per bowlNot enough data yet
Wings (10 pc)median listed price, per 10 pcNot enough data yet
Chicken fried ricemedian listed price, per orderNot enough data yet
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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