I think brand awareness plays a role here. A low quality restaurant can stay in business forever because many people don’t do a lot of research (foot traffic, o

I think brand awareness plays a role here. A low quality restaurant can stay in business forever because many people don’t do a lot of research (foot traffic, ordering online, etc). I live in a city and it takes a long time to learn what restaurants are good and bad. Probably plays a role in why there are so many - you can do a bad job and still stick around, at least for now.