The restaurant travel and tourism content based on customers being at least 50 miles from home amounts to about 20 percent.
Food service itself is as old as lodging since inns offered rest food and drink.
During the past 200 years the contribution from france where many kitchen and dining room terms originated has been enormous.
The advent of the automobile give impetus to the bith of the fast-food segment of the restaurant industrycomped.
Almost half of all food consumed in America is now done away from home compared to only one-quarter 50 year ago.
This has mainly resulted from more employment opportunities for women who had traditionally been homemaker.
The restaurant industry can be divided into two categories and many subsectors.
As a rule at full-service establishments petrons eat later.
Under full-service there are family-style varied menu full-service Italian seafood ethnic and luxury.
Within the limited-service categories there are hamburger pizza chicken Mexican ice cream donut cafeteria /buffet bakery and ethnic.
Whatever the category most restaurants are small businesses employing fewer than 20 workers.
Restaurants are risky endeavors with estimated of first-year failures ranging from 25 to 50 percent depending on the area.
Some of the reasons include under capitalization lack of sufficient attention from the owners poor choice of location and inexperience in financial matters and marketing.
A general rule regarding costs is that so-called prime costs food and labor expenses should not exceed 65 percent of total costs.