First course
Restaurants work in Paterson
Paterson is a dense city of roughly 160,000 people packed into about eight and a half square miles, and it eats out constantly. The demand splits along the city's main corridors. Downtown and Main Street carry the lunch trade from the county courts and offices. The South Paterson stretch around Main Street is where a lot of the city's Middle Eastern and South Asian food business sits, and people drive in from other towns for it. Along Market Street and the Broadway corridor the trade is more neighbourhood, more takeout, more delivery. Paid search in this category is mostly local and cheap per click compared with bigger metros, which means the organic listings still carry most of the clicks. The businesses competing for those searches are overwhelmingly owner operators, single location or two, with a handful of small local groups. Franchises take some of the chain traffic but they do not dominate the local queries. The demand is there every day of the week and it is searched by people who are already close by and already hungry.
