Fact 1: Restaurant-industry sales on a typical day in 2012 will generate $1.7 billion.
Fact 2: There will be an increase of 1.4 million positions in the restaurant industry in the next decade.
Fact 3: Restaurant-industry job growth has outpaced the national economy in 12 consecutive years, from 2000 through 2011.
Fact 4: 93% percent of eating-and-drinking place businesses have fewer than 50 employees.
Fact 5: 7 out of 10 eating-and-drinking place establishments are single-unit operations.
Fact 6: 66% of adults say their favorite restaurant foods provide flavour and taste sensations which cannot easily be duplicated in their home kitchen.
Fact 7: One-half of all adults have worked in the restaurant industry at some point in their lives, and one-third got their first job experience in a restaurant.
Fact 8: 80% of restaurant owners said their first job in the restaurant industry was at an entry-level position.
Fact 9: $2,505: Average household expenditure on food away from home in 2010.
Fact 10: 38% Percent of adults said they would be likely to utilise a smartphone app if it was offered by a quickservice restaurant.