Daytime population
For US sites, LODES workplace jobs test the weekday breakfast and lunch base. Canadian reports mark daytime jobs unavailable because no public source meets the licensing bar.
Restaurant and café location due diligence
Check the restaurant math before the lease fixes the rent.
Vantlens produces source-cited restaurant and café location reports for US and Canadian commercial addresses. The $149 Location Report checks the available numbers your break-even actually depends on—street flow, competition inside the trade area, residential demand, income fit, and co-tenancy—plus LODES daytime jobs for US sites.
A signed lease fixes the rent even when lunchtime workers thin, vehicle flow bypasses the entrance, or same-category competition already fills the trade area. The score shows the favourable signal and the concern before the document asks you to commit.
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Street foot and vehicle flow
Modeled foot and vehicle flow indices describe pass-by conditions on the highest vehicle-ranked named street in the report. They are labeled as indices, not measured pedestrian or vehicle counts.
Competition inside the trade area
Nearby restaurant and café operators can validate a dining trade area. The cited category count and share also expose saturation risk.
Residential support
Trade-area population tests the customer base available when offices empty and weekday travel patterns change.
Income fit against the metro
Local median income is compared with the metro baseline as context because cafés, quick service, and full service carry different price points.
Complementary co-tenancy
Grocery, retail, fitness, and hotel categories provide evidence of trip occasions that are not dependent on food-service visits alone.
LEHD LODES · modeled street-flow indices · Census and StatCan · Overture Maps places
Revenue refusal
The report does not invent sales.
Your rent, average ticket, gross margin, labor model, and opening hours belong to your operation. The report uses the assumptions you provide to show break-even conditions, while the location score remains tied to cited evidence and labeled modeled estimates.
Location Report
Commission the full restaurant or café document for $149, once. The report states the concern, confidence level, sources, and questions to take back to the landlord.
Questions
Before commissioning a restaurant report
Which factors does the restaurant and café profile score?
It scores US daytime jobs, modeled foot and vehicle flow, same-category competition, residential population, income fit against the metro, and complementary retail co-tenancy. Canadian reports mark daytime jobs unavailable because no public source meets the licensing bar.
Does Vantlens forecast restaurant revenue?
No. Vantlens does not publish revenue projections. The report shows break-even conditions from your own rent, ticket-size, margin, and operating assumptions, so the document states what would have to be true without inventing sales.
How much is a restaurant Location Report?
A report for one commercial address is $149 as a one-time purchase. It includes the scored factors, cited evidence, one favourable signal, one concern, a confidence rating, and questions to put to the landlord or broker.