Washington Hospitality Association: Tracking Restaurant Health to Drive Strategic Support

Academic Year: 2025 | Program: INFO

Washington Hospitality Association: Tracking Restaurant Health to Drive Strategic Support

To address the challenge of understanding regional disparities in restaurant closures, membership status, and staffing trends across Washington, we partnered with the Washington Hospitality Association (WHA) to analyze internal member data. This project supports WHA in understanding trends and challenges within the state’s restaurant industry, enabling executives to better support member restaurants. The outcome was an interactive Power BI dashboard that visualizes survival rates, membership activity by county, and employee retention. This tool has had a significant impact by enabling WHA to identify struggling businesses more effectively, recognize regional trends, and enhance their support strategies for members across the state. For example, it showed a big drop in closures from 2024 to 2025 and pointed out that counties like King and Pierce have the most inactive members, insights that can help WHA focus outreach efforts and make smarter policy decisions.

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Project sponsored by: Washington Hospitality Association
Project Team

Yaphet Paulos
Katherine Guo
Vivian Feng
Kyle Grubb
Ashlyn Li

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