First course
Restaurants work in Tempe
Tempe packs a lot of eating into a small city. Arizona State University brings a student population that searches for cheap eats, late kitchens and delivery near campus, and the Mill Avenue strip and the streets around it carry a dense run of bars, cafes and restaurants that compete for the same evening trade. Downtown Tempe and the lakefront draw visitors and office workers at lunch, and the residential streets south of the university and out toward Guadalupe and the 101 feed neighbourhood places that live on repeat custom. Paid search in this trade is worth real money in Tempe because a click on a restaurant term is close to a booking, so the paid listings above the free results are crowded. Chains hold their ground along the main roads and in the shopping centres, and owner operators hold the neighbourhoods and the campus fringe. The demand is there every day of the year, spread across people who know the city and people who have just arrived.
