Thanks to One Fat Frog for compiling some of these facts and figures.  Please feel free to use them when creating your business plan for bar, restaurant and food service establishments.

• 30,734 eat-and-drinking establishments in Florida in 2006
• $25.7 BILLION in 2007 Florida restaurant sales
• 84,500 persons employed in the restaurant & food service
• 1,063,000 estimated employed in 2017
• Restaurant & food service employment represents 10.5 % of Florida’s employment

Data based on NRA research