A paper co-authored by Dr. Yang Yang and MTHM student Jing-huei Huang, entitled “Neighborhood Characteristics and Restaurant Location in the United States”, has been accepted for a STAND UP PRESENTATION at the 20th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality and Tourism. In this paper,  based on the location data of more than 1 million US restaurants stored in a comprehensive geographical information system (GIS) database, several econometric models are proposed to recognize various determinants of restaurant location at a zip-code level.