Culinary Arts

Industry Facts

The restaurant industry is the nation's largest private-sector employer. Restaurants emply 12 million people today, and are expected to employ 13.5 million by 2014.

In the state of Washington there are 15,089 establishments employing 178,500 people. The projected growth in our state is 4.9%.

For more information, visit the National Restaurant Association website:
http://www.restaurant.org/research