Today's restaurant industry is growing rapidly. It employs 12.8 million Americans in 960,000 locations — and 2010 sales are expected to reach $604 billion.
A indústria de restaurantes no EUA empregam 12.8 milhões em 960.000 endereços. Vendas em 2010 devem atingir $604 bilhões de dólares.
Qual o PIB brasileiro? Isso quer dizer que o universo de restaurantes nos EUA movimentam 30% do PIB brasileiro.
| LUGAR | PAÍS | 2010 |
| 1º | Estados Unidos | 14,720 |
| 2º | China | 9,872 |
| 3º | Japão | 4,338 |
| 4º | Índia | 4,046 |
| 5º | Alemanha | 2,951 |
| 6º | Rússia | 2,229 |
| 7º | Brasil | 2,194 |
| 8º | Reino Unido | 2,189 |
| 9º | França | 2,160 |
| 10º | Itália | 1,782 |
The National Restaurant Association now represents more than 380,000 of those businesses — from restaurants and suppliers to educators and non-profits — and provides each one with the valuable resources needed to stay ahead in a fast-paced industry.
1917: When egg brokers try to demand a price of 65 cents a dozen, the year-old Kansas City Restaurant Association, one of the restaurant industry's earliest professional associations, organizes an egg boycott. Egg prices plummet to 32 cents. The seeds of a national movement are sown.
1919: Kansas City restaurateurs launch a national organization, holding the first meeting of what is today's National Restaurant Association on March 13 in Kansas City. The fledgling organization represents an industry of 43,000 restaurants.
1920: Prohibition begins in 1920, kicking off a 13-year ban on alcohol sales. Restaurants that are used to serving free sandwiches with five-cent beers need to develop new marketing tactics — and they do. Despite Prohibition, the industry thrives, riding a wave of national prosperity. Howard Johnson's opens its first franchises, White Castle's five-cent burgers grow popular, and Willard Marriott opens his first Hot Shoppes....to be continued on the site.....
http://www.restaurant.org/aboutus/history/
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