New York SBDC Research Network

The National Restaurant Operations Report 2016 This is another item we get annually for our reference collection. If you are not familiar, it looks at the restaurant industry and provides details like: average check for full-service restaurants average check for limited service restaurants cost per dollar of sales ratio to total sales amount per seat and ratio to total sales annual employee turnover amount per square foot The National Coffee Drinking Trends Report 2017 daily, weekly, yearly consumption by age consumption by type of coffee consumption by region where and when coffee is consumed drinking coffee at home vs in restaurants consumer attitudes year to year trends The IHRSA Profiles of Success  The Annual Industry Data Survey of the Health and Fitness Industry This report provides an industry overview for fitness and health club including club operating benchmarks. membership and attendance leading club da...

Every now and then I like to write a blog post about general business resources that I use. A few months ago, I discovered a very useful resource that I recommend bookmarking for future use. The William and Joan Schreyer Business Library at Penn State has compiled Industry Guides for various industry. The guides are organized industry sector or alphabetically. Check out the guide for the Biotech Industry . Guides provide NAICS, scope of the industry, databases to use for further research, U.S. and World companies and resources that provide industry data, related reference titles in the library, trade associations and journals, and occupational information sources.