Restaurant survival rates
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Sticking around for 35 years is tough, but if you open a new restaurant in the Valley, your odds of making it for at least a year are pretty good.
The big picture: The vast majority of restaurants using DoorDash in the biggest U.S. cities that were open in September 2024 remained open in September 2025, per new data from the company shared exclusively with Axios.
Why it matters: Some churn is normal, even healthy. But especially low restaurant survival in any given city may suggest something rotten in the state of the local industry.
By the numbers: The Valley's best odds are in Glendale, where new restaurants had a one-year survival rate of 94.3%, the 14th best on DoorDash's list.
- Arizona's next best were Gilbert (94.1%), Tucson, (94%), Mesa and Phoenix (93.3%), Chandler (93.2%) and Scottsdale (91.1%).