01-28-2008, 04:21 PM
Damon, followed your link to the data source. The business census data that was used in that article is based on sales per capita. In a state that has a relatively small population base versus tourist, it would make sense that this state has a much higher per capita restaurant sales - same for Nevada (the sales receipts were divided by the population of the state in 2002, no matter if they were generated by vistors or residents) the census map link from the article is:
http://quarterhorse.dsd.census.gov/TheDataWeb_HotReport/servlet/HotReportEngineServlet?emailname=bh@boc&filename=sal1.hrml&20071127090603.Var.NAICS2002=722
Oh, that $609 is the data for limited service restuarants, full service were even higher... the data map I have referred to is all food & drink establishments (couldn't figure how to separate the eating from the drinking.... )
http://quarterhorse.dsd.census.gov/TheDataWeb_HotReport/servlet/HotReportEngineServlet?emailname=bh@boc&filename=sal1.hrml&20071127090603.Var.NAICS2002=722
Oh, that $609 is the data for limited service restuarants, full service were even higher... the data map I have referred to is all food & drink establishments (couldn't figure how to separate the eating from the drinking.... )