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Neil Freiman

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Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

It's got to have a lot of real estate so you can fit a lot of people in there.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

You have to have customers spending a decent amount of money.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

Their average check size has to be high and it has to be busy.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

So it has to be packed properly.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

From the time it opens till the time it closed, Din Tai Fung checks all three of those boxes.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

Its check averages are about $45 per person, which is interesting because the individual dishes rarely go above $20.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

You just kind of order a lot of them because there's so much good stuff.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

You have to have this type of soup dumpling, this type of wonton, this type of salad.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

And so all of these things are conspiring to create this astronomical number where each restaurant brings in $27.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

million, which is kind of insane to think about.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

They're also very strategically paced.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

A lot of them are on the West Coast, which has a larger Asian-American population.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

And they're in Disneyland in California and then in New York City, where there's been a huge heralded opening over the past year was in Times Square.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

When you're talking about foot traffic, there is no other.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

What we can put some respect on Chick-fil-A's name though, because when you're looking just at American fast food chains, Chick-fil-A does do the most sales, average sales per location, 7.5 million.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

It's not 24, but it is

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

7.5, and then you get Raising Cane's, In-N-Out Burger, Whataburger, and then McDonald's, Chipotle, Cava Zaxby's are all way down the list if you like those places.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

Finally, this was a number that seemed to scratch an itch.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

For the first time ever, mosquitoes were found on Iceland, which was one of the only places in the world they had not been discovered before.

Morning Brew Daily
Neal’s Numbers Mega Recap: Death of Partying, 2 Escalators in WY, and More

The other is Antarctica.