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Restaurant rent: Why rent decides restaurant turnover before cooking does
The lease decides how long a Manhattan dining room lives: corridor asking rents, percentage rent clauses, and the ledger that ends tenancies before reviews do.

The lease decides how long a Manhattan dining room lives: corridor asking rents, percentage rent clauses, and the ledger that ends tenancies before reviews do.

Asking rents near the bowtie hit $1,555 per square foot in mid-2025. The rent, the visitor flow, and the one-visit guest explain every menu in Times Square.

Midtown lunch counters survived the office exodus by shrinking to the weekday grid: Monday-to-Friday hours, counter service, and a take-out window near the trains, with office attendance still below pre-pandemic levels.