Fast Food Capital of Texas?

Atascocita Texas claims to be the fast food capital of Texas...


Sounds like a fishy claim.

California has the most total places to eat - 87,225 dining establishments (2006 source here). New York State comes in at about 2/3 of that with 58,027. The top five states include Texas (53,631), Florida (41,901) Pennsylvania (31,466).
In terms of per capita per state, Washington DC tops the list according to National Restaurant Association . The US capital region boosts some 0.4 restaurants per 100 people.

Second is, surprisingly, Montana at .354 restaurants per 100 people. The NRA’s top five states are Rhode Island (0.304 per 100) Vermont (.303 per 100) New York (.301 per 100). If you are a little hungry you might want avoid the three states with the fewest restaurants Mississippi, Kentucky and Utah.

In terms of North American cities, it is a little harder to ascertain who can claim the title of city with most restaurants per capita.

Here are some cities with more than 100,000 people that have made the claim.

The city of San Francisco is a city of 744,230 people and claims to have 2,662 restaurants within the city boundaries. Thats 1,667 people per restaurant.

Victoria, BC.
This city on Vancouver Island and capital city of British Columbia, Canada regularly makes the claim that it has the “second highest number of restaurants per capita,” That means Victoria has a restaurant per 1,264 people.

On average, the city of New York can claim 6,650 dining places from the chic hot spots to the greasiest corner diners -- the most restaurants in any one place on the continent. Yet with 8,168,338 people, New York can only claim to have 1, 228 people per restaurant.

Austin Texas’s burgeoning population is currently 690, 252 making their people to restaurant ratio 634.

Louisville, KY has 1,089 restaurants. 510 people per restaurant.

A respectable 437 restaurants for 221,551 people in the Madison Wisconsin area, comes in at 504 people per.

Dallas, Texas’ third largest city ranks at 469 people per restaurant, making this city the winner of the title “City With The Most Restaurants per Capita.” take that Atascocita!


*reasearch via Kevin Field http://www.citybloc.com