What is understood by analyzing all the restaurant names of Chinese restaurant?

ByKai Chan Vong

There seems to be about 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the US that are larger than the number of McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Wendy's Four Fast Food Shops. The Washington Post is analyzing the rule of the store name as "The restaurant's restaurant name attracts Americans as well as the taste of Chinese restaurant's cuisine."

We analyzed the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in America. This is what we learned - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/08/we-analyzed-the-names-of-almost-every-chinese-restaurant-in-america-this-is-what-we-learned/


I wrote about the history of the Chinese restaurant in the US "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles"According to Jennifer 8. Lee, the reason why Americans prefer Chinese restaurants is" There are reasons not only for the dishes served in the store but also for the restaurant's name. " For example, a restaurant named "Golden Dragon Buffet" can easily identify that it is a Chinese restaurant. Mr. Lee points out, "The law of the restaurant's name is not specific to Chinese restaurants, and certain words and phrases are used in restaurants of all genres."

So, in order to explore the tendency of the restaurant name of a Chinese restaurant,YelpI looked up the store name of about 40,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States. The following are the ones representing the top 100 most frequently used in store names. The most commonly used word is said to be "Restaurant" straight. Other words say that words such as "Garden" "House" "Kitchen" are also used as words indicating restaurants.


"China" "Chinese" turned out to be used as the store name of about 15,000 Chinese restaurants, which is one-third of the total. Next, "Express (delivery)" was about 3000, "Panda (panda)" was 2495, this is "Panda ExpressMr. Lee is analyzing that there are 1,500 Chinese restaurant chain stores called "Chinese restaurant."

While "New" is used in about 1500 Chinese restaurants, only 31 stores including "Old" are said to stay. Looking at the words that represent colors, "Golden (Fri)" ranked first with 1238 houses. It has been found that the name of the animal is larger than "Panda" including the name "Dragon (dragon)".

Below is the map showing the regional concentration of Chinese domestic Chinese restaurants by state. It is clear that there are Chinese restaurants in all over the country and the number of stores is almost proportional to the state population.


In addition, the number of Chinese restaurant stores per million population is as follows. Nevada, the San Francisco Bay Area, Alaska, Hawaii, etc. have resulted in Chinese restaurants more population than other areas.