Industry reports

Who’s busy, what’s rising and what it costs, from every review and menu around you. Real numbers, one neighborhood at a time.

One email a month. The first reports come out this month.

Union Square, NYC · Coming this month

Who's busy near Union Square, and why

308 vs. 39

reviews a year: the busiest quarter of restaurants vs. the quieter half

What the busiest restaurants around Union Square do differently: the dishes guests rave about, how they price, how often they show up on Google, and how they answer reviews.

Little Saigon, OC · Coming this month

Little Saigon's best pho, by the numbers

95%

of pho mentions praise 99999 Restaurant - Phở Út Nô, #1 in Little Saigon

Every pho review in Little Saigon from the last 12 months, read and ranked. The top three: 99999 Restaurant - Phở Út Nô, PHO LOVERS 1, Pho Flavor. Plus who's rising and what a bowl costs.

Union Square, NYC · Coming this month

The review gap: who answers, and who gets busy

73% vs. 52%

answer their reviews: the busiest quarter vs. the quieter half

Restaurants that answer reviews get more of them. What good replies look like, how fast the busy places answer, and what it does for your Google rank.

About Stackup IQ

Every owner wants to know why the place down the street is busy. Stackup IQ reads every review, menu, Google ranking and Instagram post around your restaurant and shows you, side by side with every place like yours. Then it helps you do something about it.

We’re in New York City and Orange County, adding neighborhoods every week. Stackup IQ is made by LFG Loud, a team that builds websites and marketing for local businesses.

How we get the numbers

  • ✓Public Google listings and reviews, read by AI and checked
  • ✓Restaurants' own menus and prices, from their websites
  • ✓Google Maps searched from street corners, like a diner would
  • ✓Instagram posts from restaurants nearby
  • ✓Never a made-up number about a real restaurant
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