There are more than 1 million restaurants in the U.S. employing about 10 % of the U.S. workforce. Given the large number of restaurants and how often they fail, I created a model that can provide insights to investors and lenders and help them evaluate restaurants based on whether they are likely to close within the next 4 years. For more details read the relevant blogpost where I describe the process I followed to build this model and talk about my results.