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Restaurants and cafes in Cache County, UT
How Cache County, UT compares with other counties and the U.S. for restaurants and cafes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 73 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #317 of 2,405 scored counties
#5 of 21 scored counties in Utah
- Listings
- 358
- 180 chain locations (50%)
- Official establishments
- 182
- +13.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $175.4M
- On food away from home · $3,946 a household
- Spending per listing
- $490K
- 32% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 80.6
- 27% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 145,000
- +8.5% since 2020
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What this means
Households in Cache County spend about $175.4M a year on food away from home, or $3,946 per household, 3% below the U.S. average. That is about $490K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 32% above the U.S. figure of $371K.
There are 358 restaurants and cafes on map listings in Cache County as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 50% of them, against 34% across the U.S. That is 80.6 per 10,000 households, 27% below the U.S. rate of 109.8.
In 2023, official counts showed 182 businesses with payroll in Cache County classed as restaurants and other eating places, up 13.0% from 2019. That is one for every 244 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. Another 25 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts. Since fiscal 2022, 13 SBA-backed loans worth $6.3M have gone to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Cache County.
Population estimates show Cache County grew 8.5% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For restaurants and cafes, Cache County has a Groundwork market score of 73 (upper middle): #317 of 2,405 scored counties and #5 of 21 scored counties in Utah. That puts it in the top quarter of counties.
How Cache County compares
The same measures for Utah 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 | Cache County | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 80.6 | 103.7 | 109.8 |
| Spending per listing | $490K | $418K | $371K |
| Households per official establishment | 244 | 205 | 209 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +13.0% | +13.3% | +6.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +8.5% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,946 | $4,339 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $81,665 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 73 | 73 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 161 → 182+13.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 4,091
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $74.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 25Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 358180 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 473The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 13
- Amount
- $6.3M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as restaurants and other eating places in Cache County, 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 Cache County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 145,000+8.5% since 2020
- Households
- 44,439
- Median age
- 29.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 64%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 1,165 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 120
- Median household income
- $81,665+38.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $105,827
- Median home value
- $444,400
- Jobs located here
- 60,576
- Daytime population
- 130,767Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Utah
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Morgan County, UT | 97 | 16 | 42.3 | $1.2M | +8.1% | #1 of 2,405 |
| 2Tooele County, UT | 88 | 176 | 73.6 | $609K | +19.2% | #37 of 2,405 |
| 3Box Elder County, UT | 79 | 139 | 71.1 | $554K | +12.7% | #152 of 2,405 |
| 4Davis County, UT | 77 | 920 | 79.4 | $591K | +4.8% | #193 of 2,405 |
| 5Cache County, UT | 73 | 358 | 80.6 | $490K | +8.5% | #317 of 2,405 |
| 6Wasatch County, UT | 73 | 140 | 108.7 | $459K | +9.9% | #322 of 2,405 |
| 7Emery County, UT | 70 | 29 | 84.0 | $435K | +3.4% | #413 of 2,405 |
| 8Weber County, UT | 69 | 841 | 89.3 | $463K | +5.8% | #434 of 2,405 |
| 9Utah County, UT | 69 | 1,985 | 97.8 | $459K | +14.5% | #437 of 2,405 |
| 10Duchesne County, UT | 68 | 65 | 94.5 | $407K | +6.3% | #464 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Cache County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes73
- Sit-down restaurants84
- Fast food and sandwich shops55
- Pizza61
- Coffee shops and cafes75
- Bakeries and dessert shops44
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Questions
How many restaurants and cafes are in Cache County, UT?
As of September 2026, map listings count 358 restaurants and cafes in Cache County. 180 of them (50%) are chain locations. The listings count every restaurant, cafe, bar, bakery and food truck. Official counts show 182 businesses with payroll classed as restaurants and other eating places in 2023, up 13.0% from 2019. Official counts list 25 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Cache County, UT spend on food away from home?
About $175.4M a year, or $3,946 per household. That is 3% below the U.S. average (an index of 97, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 358 restaurants and cafes on map listings, it comes to $490K per restaurant. It is estimated from the incomes of the 44,439 households in Cache County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Cache County, UT compare with the U.S. for restaurants and cafes?
Cache County has 80.6 restaurants and cafes per 10,000 households, 27% below the U.S. rate of 109.8. Spending per restaurant is $490K, 32% above the U.S. figure of $371K. At the U.S. ratio of restaurants and cafes to household spending, Cache County would have about 473, against 358 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 244 households, against one for every 209 across the U.S. The official count rose 13.0% from 2019 to 2023, against +6.0% for the U.S.
How fast is Cache County, UT growing?
Population estimates put Cache County at 145,000 people in 2025, up 8.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 44,439 households. Median household income in Cache County is $81,665, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 38.3%, 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. Cache County scores 73 for restaurants and cafes (upper middle), #317 of 2,405 scored counties.
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