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Number of seats at the world's largest restaurant:
6,014
In June 2008, the Guinness Book of World Records announced that the Damascus Gate Restaurant, located outside Damascus, Syria, was the new holder of the record for the world's largest restaurant. At 6,014 seats, the Syrian establishmenbt took the title away from the the Royal Dragon restaurant in Bangkok, which seats around 5,000.
Source: BBC News, 6/4/2008
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Number of Chinese restaurants in the U.S. in Jan. 2007:
43,139
According to Chinese Restaurant News, there were 36,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S. in 2002 and 30,000 in 1992.
Source: New York Post, 5/5/2008
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Amount earned per hour by the average American waiter or waitress in 2007, including tips:
$8.93
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer, 9/14/2008
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Price of the most expensive restaurant meal ever:
$62,679
To celebrate a business deal in the summer of 2001, 6 Barclays traders took what began innocently enough as a £50 per-head meal at Gordon Ramsay's Petrus in London, and took it to new, ill-advised heights, the group had four bottle of wine, including one which cost $16,500 and is considered the greatest wine ever made. The restaurant was so impressed with the largess of the Barclays group that it wrote off the actual food bill, which totaled about $569. Barclays was less impressed however, and even though the traders made no attempt to charge the meal to their expense accounts, Barclays had recently laid off workers, and the excess was thought to be unseemly. Five of the six diners lost their jobs as a result of the meal.
Source: AP Worldstream, 2/26/2002
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