R&I’s Top 100 Independent Restaurants 2010: The Rankings
The highest-grossing independent restaurants in the United States had combined food-and-beverage sales of $1.37 billion last year, significantly off from the previous year’s aggregate of $1.52 billion.
Kelly Killian — Restaurants & Institutions, March 29, 2010
(ELV note: Vegas has 18 of the top 100 money-making restaurants in the U.S. of A., including Tao, by far the number one grossing restaurant with over $59 mil in sales. Most of our big hotel behemoths — places seating between 200+ diners — shoot for revenues of around a $1mil/month. Recently closed places like Restaurant Charlie and David Burke were well under those projections . In Charlie’s case, his gross revenues for ’09 were under $4 mil. — not bad in any other city in America, but a death knell here.)
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