New Orleans has relatively low 1-year restaurant survival rates
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New Orleans restaurants using DoorDash had a relatively low year-over-year survival rate between September 2024 and September 2025 compared to the national average.
Why it matters: Some churn is normal, even healthy. But restaurant survival rates could also suggest something rotten in the state of the local industry.
The latest: In DoorDash data shared exclusively with Axios, 90.8% of New Orleans that were open on the app in September 2024 remained open a year later.
- Nationally, the resiliency rate across all cities included in the data was 93%.
By the numbers: Lincoln, Nebraska (97.3%), Anaheim, California (95.7%), and Fort Wayne, Indiana (95.5%) had the best restaurant resiliency rates in the covered period, per DoorDash.
- Fremont, California (87.6%), Henderson, Nevada (89.2%), and Seattle (89.8%) had the lowest such rates — meaning lots of closures.
Between the lines: Some cities with relatively low resiliency rates in the covered period — including New Orleans — also had lots of new openings, the company found.
How it works: The data is part of DoorDash's new State of Local Commerce report, which features a bounty of metrics on restaurant trends and more across the 100 most populous U.S. cities.
Yes, but: "Being high or low on one of these scales doesn't necessarily mean that a city is doing well or doing poorly," DoorDash chief analytics officer Jessica Lachs tells Axios.
- Instead, the report's data should be considered in full context to get the best idea of any particular city's performance.
- "When we looked at the data, there really wasn't any city that was, across the board, a lower performer. It really is a mixed bag everywhere."
Axios' Chelsea Brasted contributed to this report.