"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
> Listing restaurants by their gross income strikes me as rather odd from a
> foodie perspective: Food quality plays only a very small part in the
> amount of business a restaurant gets, so a restaurant's place on the list
> doesn't indicate how good a meal you could expect to get there. If I were
> looking to INVEST in a restaurant, I might look at that list, but it seems
> otherwise useless.


It equates more with marketing, selling price, and volume. I've been to
restaurants touted for being very popular and the food was OK but not as
good as many others at a lower price.. Anthony's Pier 4 in Boston and
Bookbinders in Philly come to mind.