Zero Philly Restaurants On List Of Top Grossers
The 100 highest grossing restaurants in the country were announced by Restaurants & Institutions today, and there is not one Philly restaurant among them. Baltimore has a restaurant that pulls in over $12 million a year! Cincinatti has two that gross over $11 million!
It's a little surprising that nary a steakhouse nor Stephen Starr restaurant pulls in enough money to make it into the top 100, but on the other hand; whatever. The list is not a measure of quality, and according to a Zagat survey, Philadelphia ties with Boston as the city where people eat out the least — only 2.6 times per week, compared to 3.3 nationwide. (Before you feel schadenfreude or pity for Stephen Starr: the New York City outpost of Buddakan is #7 on the list, while the NYC Morimoto is #53.)
Top 100 Independents [R&I]
Legal Sea Foods, L'Espalier, and Hungry Mother Clean Up in 2009 Boston Zagat Survey [MP:Boston]
