First course
Restaurants work in Cambridge
Cambridge holds a dense restaurant trade for a city of its size. The centre around the market square and the streets off it carries the highest concentration of places to eat, with the student population and the visitor trade feeding demand through the week. Owner operators make up most of the trade here, alongside a smaller number of small groups running two or three sites. Paid search in the city is contested by the delivery platforms and the booking platforms more than by individual restaurants, which leaves the organic results for the searches people make about a specific kind of meal, a specific street or a specific occasion. That is the demand available, and it is steady across the year because the colleges, the science parks and the visitor trade each bring their own people.
