Manhattan and Brooklyn have the highest population densities and are the most competitive for restaurant businesses. Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island have fewer existing restaurants, representing opportunities for new restaurants. Specific neighborhoods in Staten Island like Tottenville, Port Ivory, and Bloomfield have the lowest existing restaurant counts, indicating lower competition. The data analysis provides insights on cuisine preferences and market saturation in New York City boroughs and neighborhoods to help identify low-risk areas for starting a new restaurant.
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2. New York city review for XYZ
Company.
Optimum location for new
Restaurant business
Business Problem :
- Choice of first neighborhood to
start restaurant business.
- Easy to replicate.
- Low competition
- High demand
- Choice of Menu
Success Criteria :
- Best neighborhood which meets
above criteria.
3. Most populous city in the United States
It is diverse and is the financial capital of
USA
It is multicultural
Provides lot of business opportunities
Business friendly environment
Attracted many different players into the
market
Global hub of business and commerce.
The city is a major centre for banking and
finance, retailing, world trade,
transportation, tourism, real estate, new
media, traditional media, advertising,
legal services, accountancy, insurance,
theatre, fashion, and the arts in the
United States.
4. Market is highly competitive
Highly developed city so cost of doing business is also one of
the highest
New business venture or expansion needs to be analysed
carefully
One should strategically targeting the market inorder to
-This will help in reduction of risk.
-The Return on Investment will be reasonable.
5. The City of New York is famous for its excellent cuisine. It's food culture includes
an array of international cuisines influenced by the city's immigrant history.
Central and Eastern European immigrants, especially Jewish immigrants -
bagels, cheesecake, hot dogs, knishes, and delicatessens
Italian immigrants - New York-style pizza and Italian cuisine
Jewish immigrants and Irish immigrants - pastrami and corned beef
Chinese and other Asian restaurants, sandwich joints, trattorias, diners, and
coffeehouses are ubiquitous throughout the city
Mobile food vendors - Some 4,000 licensed by the city
Middle Eastern foods such as falafel and kebabs examples of modern New
York street food
Famous for fine dining Michelin starred restaurants. The city is home to
"nearly one thousand of the finest and most diverse haute cuisine restaurants
in the world", according to Michelin.
So it is evident that to survive in such competitive market it is very important
to strategically plan.
6. New York Population
New York City Demographics
Are there any Farmers Markets, Wholesale markets etc nearby so
that the ingredients can be purchased fresh to maintain quality
and cost?
Are there any venues like Gyms, Entertainmnet zones, Parks etc
nearby where floating population is high etc
Who are the competitors in that location?
Cuisine served / Menu of the competitors
Segmentation of the Borough
Untapped markets
Saturated markets etc
The list can go on...
7. Data 1 : Neighborhood has a total of 5 boroughs and 306 neighborhoods. In
order to segment the neighborhoods and explore them, we will essentially
need a dataset that contains the 5 boroughs and the neighborhoods that
exist in each borough as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates of
each neighborhood.
This dataset exists for free on the web. Link to the dataset is :
https://geo.nyu.edu/catalog/nyu_2451_34572
8. Data 2 : Farmers Markets data -
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dataset/DOHMH-Farmers-Markets-and-
Food-Boxes/8vwk-6iz2
A farmers' market is often defined as a public site used by two or more local
or regional producers for the direct sale of farm products to consumers. In
addition to fresh fruits and vegetables, markets may sell dairy products, fish,
meat, baked goods, and other minimally processed foods.
9. Data 3 : Data from Wikipedia pages as given below :
New York Population
New York City Demographics
Cuisine of New York city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_York_City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:New_York_City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_New_York_City
10. Data from foursquare.com
Newyork city geographical coordinates data will be utilized as input for the
Foursquare API, that will be leveraged to provision venues information for each
neighborhood.We will use the Foursquare API to explore neighborhoods in New
York City. The below is image of the Foursquare API data.
11. New York city neighbourhood has a total of 5 boroughs and
306 neighborhoods
PART 1 - Clustering of Manhattan and Brooklyn
PART 2 - Clustering of Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.
Only restaurant data is filtered from foursquare.com venues
data and utilized for this project.
This is done because of the following Exploratory data analysis.
12. Data 1- New york city
Geographical Coordinates Data.
Load the data and explore
data - newyork_data.json
Transform the data of nested
python dictionaries into a
pandas dataframe.
Dataframe contains the
geographical coordinates of
New York city neighborhoods.
Data will used to get Venues
data from Foursquare.
Geopy and folium libraries used
to create a map of New York
city with neighborhoods
superimposed on top.
13. Data 2- DOHMH Farmers
Markets and Food Boxes
dataset.
In this we will be using the
data of Farmers Markets
There are totally 144
Farmers Markets in New York
city.
Highest number are in
Manhattan and Brooklyn.And
lowest in Queens, Bronx and
Staten Island.
15. Data 3 : To analyize New York city Population, Demographics
and Cuisine , scrapped the data from Wikipedia pages given
above in the data section.
We used BeautifulSoup python library.
Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML
documents (including having malformed markup, i.e. non-closed
tags, so named after tag soup).
It creates a parse tree for parsed pages that can be used to
extract data from HTML, which is useful for web scraping
16. Manhattan (New York County) is the geographically smallest and most densely
populated borough.
Manhattan's (New York County's) population density of 72,033 people per square
mile (27,812/km族) in 2015 makes it the highest of any county in the United States
and higher than the density of any individual American city.
Brooklyn (Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous
borough.
Queens (Queens County), on Long Island north and east of Brooklyn, is
geographically the largest borough.
17. New York City is the most populous city in the United States , with an
estimated record high of 8,622,698 residents as of 2017,incorporating
more immigration into the city than outmigration since the 2010 United States
Census.
The racial composition is as given below. This is the reason New York city has
restaurants serving cuisine from many countries such as India, Africa, Japan
etc. This also increases the scope for restaurants business in New York City.
18. This data has been manually prepared. Data is taken from Wikipedia page
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_New_York_City
Data used to create word cloud.
NEW YORK CITY CUISINE : Most Preferred Food in New York City Italian,
Purto Rican, Mexican, Jewish, Indian, Pakistani & Dominican
19. BROOKLYN CUISINE -Most
Preferred Food in Brooklyn is
Italian, Purto Rican & Mexican
MANHATTAN CUISINE - Most
Preferred Food in Manhattan is
Italian, American, Puerto Rican
and Indian.
20. QUEENS CUISINE - Most
Preferred Food in Queens is
Indian, Irish, Pakistani and
Mexican.
THE BRONX CUISINE - Most
Preferred Food in The Bronx
is Italian, Puerto Rican,
Albanian and Dominican.
21. NewYork city geographical coordinates data has be utilized
as input for the Foursquare API, that has been leveraged to
provision venues information for each neighborhood.
We used the Foursquare API data to explore neighborhoods in
New York City.
Using the geographical coordinates of each neighbourhood
foursquare API calls are made to get top 200 venues in a
radius of 1000 meters
PART 1 Brooklyn and Manhattan
PART 2 Bronx, Queens and Staten Island
23. Brooklyn and Manhattan Venues Visualization : Generated the
below Brooklyn and Manhattan Venues Visualization. The
"BM_venues" dataframe has 9708 venues and 397 unique venue
types.
24. Bronx, Queens and Staten Island Venues data
Bronx, Queens and Staten Island Visualization
25. Bronx, Queens and Staten Island Venues Visualization : The
"BQS_venues" dataframe has 10805 venues and 387 unique
venue types.
26. Segmenting and Clustering
Neighborhoods
- Cluster0 : The Total and Total
Sum of cluster0 has smallest
value. It shows that the
market is not saturated.
- Cluster1 : The Total and Total
Sum is very high. Lot of
competition. Saturated
neighborhoods.
27. Segmenting and Clustering
Neighborhoods
- Cluster0 : The Total and Total
Sum of cluster0 has smallest
value. It shows that the
market is not saturated.There
are untapped markets.
- Cluster1 : The Total and Total
Sum is very high. Lot of
competition. Saturated
neighborhoods.
28. Scope to explore cuisines of various
countries in Bronx, Queens and
Staten Island
In Manhattan and Brooklyn
restaurants , cuisines of many
countries are part of their Menu.
Risk can be taken with great menu
on board. It also shows people love
and explore cuisines of various
countries.
Scope to increase Farmers markets
in Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.
- Region - Cluster0
- Neighborhood Staten Island
Tod Hill, Port Ivory, Bloomfield
29. Analysis performed on limited data
Re-run program with updated information
Brooklyn and Manhattan has high
concentration of restaurant business. Very
competitive market.
Bronx, Queens and Staten Island also
has good number of restaurants but not
as many as required. So this can be
explored.
As per the neighbourhood or restaurant
type mentioned like Indian Restaurant,
analysis can be checked. A venue with
lowest risk and competition can be
identified