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Sit-down restaurants in Summit County, UT
How Summit County, UT compares with other counties and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 30 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #2,067 of 2,405 scored counties
#20 of 21 scored counties in Utah
- Listings
- 258
- 45 chain locations (17%)
- Official establishments
- 92
- −2.1% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $84.9M
- On food away from home · $5,400 a household
- Spending per listing
- $329K
- 50% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 164.0
- 2.7 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 43,141
- +1.6% since 2020
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What this means
For sit-down restaurants, Summit County has a Groundwork market score of 30 (lower middle): #2,067 of 2,405 scored counties and #20 of 21 scored counties in Utah. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on food away from home in Summit County comes to about $84.9M a year: $5,400 per household, 33% above the U.S. average. That is about $329K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 50% below the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
Summit County has 258 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 17% of them, against 29% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 164.0, 2.7 times the U.S. rate of 61.3.
In 2023, official counts showed 92 businesses with payroll in Summit County classed as full-service restaurants, down 2.1% from 2019. That is one for every 171 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 6 SBA-backed loans worth $4.4M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Summit County. Population estimates put the population change in Summit County from 2020 to 2025 at +1.6%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Summit 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 sit-down restaurants 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 | Summit County | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 164.0 | 57.4 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $329K | $756K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 171 | 625 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −2.1% | +6.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.6% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $5,400 | $4,339 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $138,114 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 30 | 83 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 94 → 92−2.1% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 3,228
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $94.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 15Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 25845 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 128The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 6
- Amount
- $4.4M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Summit 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 Summit County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 43,141+1.6% since 2020
- Households
- 15,730
- Median age
- 41.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 1,871 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 23
- Median household income
- $138,114+34.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $211,102
- Median home value
- $1,067,700
- Jobs located here
- 32,548
- Daytime population
- 50,344Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Utah market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Utah for sit-down restaurants, numbered among those based in Utah, with Summit County marked.
Top counties in Utah
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Morgan County, UT | 96 | 9 | 23.8 | $2.2M | +8.1% | #2 of 2,405 |
| 2Tooele County, UT | 91 | 95 | 39.7 | $1.1M | +19.2% | #19 of 2,405 |
| 3Box Elder County, UT | 89 | 64 | 32.7 | $1.2M | +12.7% | #30 of 2,405 |
| 4Davis County, UT | 88 | 483 | 41.7 | $1.1M | +4.8% | #43 of 2,405 |
| 5Cache County, UT | 84 | 186 | 41.9 | $943K | +8.5% | #80 of 2,405 |
| 6Utah County, UT | 82 | 1,101 | 54.2 | $828K | +14.5% | #99 of 2,405 |
| 7Emery County, UT | 78 | 13 | 37.6 | $971K | +3.4% | #171 of 2,405 |
| 8Wasatch County, UT | 77 | 76 | 59.0 | $846K | +9.9% | #203 of 2,405 |
| 9Weber County, UT | 76 | 471 | 50.0 | $827K | +5.8% | #228 of 2,405 |
| 10Sanpete County, UT | 75 | 40 | 45.0 | $792K | +10.3% | #254 of 2,405 |
| 20Summit County, UT | 30 | 258 | 164.0 | $329K | +1.6% | #2,067 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Summit County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes31
- Sit-down restaurants30
- Fast food and sandwich shops47
- Pizza53
- Coffee shops and cafes30
- Bakeries and dessert shops43
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in Summit County, UT?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 258 sit-down restaurants in Summit County. 45 of them (17%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 92 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023, down 2.1% from 2019. Official counts also show 15 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Summit County, UT spend on food away from home?
About $84.9M a year, or $5,400 per household. That is 33% above the U.S. average (an index of 133, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 258 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $329K per restaurant. That spending covers all food away from home, which sit-down restaurants share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 15,730 households in Summit County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Summit County, UT compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Summit County has 164.0 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 2.7 times the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $329K, 50% below the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Summit County would have about 128, against 258 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 171 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. The official count fell 2.1% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is Summit County, UT growing?
Population estimates put Summit County at 43,141 people in 2025, up 1.6% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 15,730 households. Median household income in Summit County is $138,114, 71% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 34.2%, 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. Summit County scores 30 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #2,067 of 2,405 scored counties.
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