As we take a look at our word cloud that is analyzing the
most popular dishes, we find a lot of our favorite dishes with burritos and
tacos appearing the most often.
Another interesting fact about the Mexican restaurants we
analyzed in the US is that most of them, 70 percent, are independent
restaurants and the other 30 percent are classified as chain restaurants. Brizo FoodMetrics defines a chain restaurant
as having 5 or more establishments in operation, while independents will have 4
or less. There are more than 590 unique
chain brands that operate over 22 thousand locations in the USA with Taco Bell
making up almost 9 percent of all locations.
We decided to dig a bit deeper into the data and found that
Los Angeles, New York & Chicago were the top 3 cities with the most Mexican
restaurants, making up 17 percent of all Mexican restaurants in the USA.
As for how those restaurants are dealing with the COVID
pandemic? They appear to have adapted
quite well as 92 percent of them offer takeout and 80 percent of them offer
delivery. Of those 62,000 restaurants
that offer delivery we have found that the most popular services amongst the
restaurants are GrubHub with over 32,000 restaurants, Postmates with over
29,000 and DoorDash with 28,000.
Seamless and UberEats are not too far behind with 20,000 and 18,000
respectively. Brizo FoodMetrics collects
information from the sites of Marketplace delivery solutions to provide that
information.
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