Open-Source Food Service Research Synthesizer

The restaurant research synthesizer is an open-source relational data base architecture designed for storing and analyzing large amounts of demographic and economic data. The focus of this project is understanding how immigration effects the service industry and considers many economic factors. This works by collecting publicly available demographic statistics and saving the information by regions of interest. Each region is broken down into smaller locations that contain entities storing information about every restaurant in the area. This software has the potential to provide valuable insights for industry professionals including existing and prospective businesses owners. Business owners could use this structure to determine optimal locations for opening new restaurants or to determine how to change their menus to benefit from trends in the statistics. Additionally, this could be a useful tool for researchers examining the effects of demographic trends to the economy. The database is designed with the capabilities to manage multiple users with different research interests and preferences.

Data analysis, Open-Source, Demographic Trends, Economic Impact