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Restaurants and cafes in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area
The restaurants and cafes in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other metro areas.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 38 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #281 of 387 scored metro areas
#19 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida
- Listings
- 13,328
- 5,110 chain locations (38%)
- Official establishments
- 5,316
- +15.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $4B
- On food away from home · $3,917 a household
- Spending per listing
- $300K
- 19% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 130.4
- 19% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 2,957,672
- +10.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 13,328 restaurants and cafes in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area. Chain locations make up 38% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 130.4 per 10,000 households, 19% above the U.S. rate of 109.8.
At $3,917 per household (4% below the U.S. average), households in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area spend about $4B a year on food away from home. That is about $300K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 19% below the U.S. figure of $371K.
In 2023, official counts showed 5,316 businesses with payroll in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area classed as restaurants and other eating places, up 15.0% from 2019. That is one for every 192 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 2,459 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 262 SBA-backed loans worth $184.9M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area grew 10.3%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for restaurants and cafes in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area is 38 (lower middle), #281 of 387 scored metro areas and #19 of 22 scored metro areas based in Florida.
How the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area compares
The same measures for Florida and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the restaurants and cafes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area | Florida | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 130.4 | 112.4 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $300K | $342K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 192 | 223 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +15.0% | +11.6% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +10.3% | +8.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,917 | $3,841 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $78,533 | $74,568 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 38 | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 5,316+15.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 116,024
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.9B
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 2,459Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 13,3285,110 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 10,801The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 262
- Amount
- $184.9M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 2,957,672+10.3% since 2020
- Households
- 1,022,315
- Median age
- 39.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 63%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 3,494 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 800
- Median household income
- $78,533+34.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $106,415
- Median home value
- $369,800
- Jobs located here
- 1,482,556
- Daytime population
- 2,958,505Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Florida
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wildwood-The Villages, FL | 89 | 337 | 47.9 | $782K | +21.1% | #2 of 387 |
| 2Punta Gorda, FL | 84 | 703 | 77.6 | $463K | +15.5% | #9 of 387 |
| 3Homosassa Springs, FL | 78 | 480 | 67.3 | $486K | +11.1% | #21 of 387 |
| 4Ocala, FL | 78 | 1,226 | 74.4 | $446K | +17.3% | #25 of 387 |
| 5Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL | 78 | 2,394 | 82.7 | $423K | +19.8% | #26 of 387 |
| 6Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL | 77 | 643 | 90.8 | $422K | +7.7% | #32 of 387 |
| 7Port St. Lucie, FL | 76 | 1,847 | 90.0 | $422K | +16.0% | #36 of 387 |
| 8North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL | 74 | 3,949 | 101.5 | $396K | +13.2% | #40 of 387 |
| 9Sebring, FL | 69 | 355 | 75.7 | $415K | +9.7% | #69 of 387 |
| 10Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL | 66 | 2,635 | 102.3 | $383K | +9.1% | #88 of 387 |
| 19Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL | 38 | 13,328 | 130.4 | $300K | +10.3% | #281 of 387 |
Other business types in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes38
- Sit-down restaurants37
- Fast food and sandwich shops51
- Pizza50
- Coffee shops and cafes51
- Bakeries and dessert shops47
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area?
There are 13,328 restaurants and cafes on map listings in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area as of September 2026. 5,110 of them (38%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 5,316 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 15.0% from 2019. Official counts list 2,459 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area spend on food away from home?
About $4B a year, or $3,917 per household. That is 4% below the U.S. average (an index of 96, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 13,328 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $300K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 1,022,315 households in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area has 130.4 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 19% above the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $300K, 19% below the U.S. figure of $371K. At the national ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area would have about 10,801, against 13,328 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 192 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 15.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area at 2,957,672 people in 2025, up 10.3% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 1,022,315 households. The median household income in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area is $78,533 a year, 3% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 34.6% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro area scores 38 for restaurants and cafes (lower middle), #281 of 387 scored metro areas.
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