Restaurants, Travel & Leisure
Restaurants, hotels, cruises, entertainment venues, and leisure services. This page compares reported financial scale with the customer needs and operating signals that shape sector performance.
- Companies
- 54
- Average revenue
- $5.5B
- Average margin
- Infinity%
- Average growth
- 5.7%
What this industry is really competing to solve
Demand emerges when people want food, rest, celebration, connection, or a reliable break from routine. The deeper motives are comfort, pleasure, belonging, novelty, and being cared for. This is why the competitive set extends beyond companies with the same industry code.
Customers can also choose home consumption, local independents, delivery, alternative travel, digital entertainment, and staying home. Industry growth becomes durable only when companies make the desired progress easier than those alternatives.
How demand becomes profit and cash
The common mechanism is turning locations, capacity, service quality, and repeat occasions into higher traffic and unit economics. Across the industry, the decisive investment question is whether new capacity earns an adequate return after labor, occupancy, and maintenance costs.
Average operating profit is $903.5M, but the spread between leaders and laggards matters more than the average alone. Compare scale, margin, growth, and the leading indicators together.
Restaurants, Travel & Leisure companies
| Company | Revenue | Operating profit | Margin | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xponential Fitness XPOF | $315M | $20M | 6.3% | -1.6% |
| Kura Sushi USA KRUS | $283M | -$5M | -1.8% | +18.9% |
| RCI Hospitality Holdings RICK | $279M | $30M | 10.8% | -5.7% |
| Ark Restaurants ARKR | $166M | -$4M | -2.4% | -9.8% |
| Nathan's Famous NATH | $162M | $20M | 12.3% | +9.5% |
| El Pollo Loco LOCO | $0M | $38M | Infinity% | NaN% |
