To all wholesaler out there, name your favorite food restaurant in town.

Everybody cries about immigrants but half the time they're the only ones who will work, and they will share a house with 10 people and one car until they've saved enough money to buy a restaurant or some rental properties and then people are griping about foreigners owning everything. 

Most restaurant dinners exceed 2000 calories easy, with a great desert perhaps 3000, which is more than you should eat in an entire day at my age.

You may not be able to get the full feel of the area with one visit.The one(s) that seem like moneymakers for you, maybe visit with no appointments two or three more times (not in the snow season) and just be a fly on the wall.Visit the grocery store parking lots and fast foods of the areas you like--see who is shopping, are their carts filled to the brim or is it small amounts of food--like they must eat out a lot.Stay in a (m)otel on the fringe of the area, eat on the restaurants the locals eat in (if they are not too dangerous).Go on line and watch their nightly local news, and read their local newspaper online.Talk to local Realtors about A, B C and D areas.Get the Feel for the place, for instance doing business in Chicago (in my opinion) is like falling off a log vs doing business in some other mid-western areas (the locals seem to make it easy and have good attitudes).Other areas the local governments make everything a PITA, with this inspection and that inspection, and local rules and regs as well as eviction feet dragging.

I have used the analogy, some people like eating at restaurants and some would rather cook at home.

There are also major plans to build restaurants/bars/shops under condos and various parks/outdoor spaces in the Potomac Yard area. 

@Jay HinrichsNevada is $9 plus tips, which in my small quick service restaurant is $15-$20 an hour.

I just went to dinner at a local “historic landmark” restaurant on many acres with ponds, streams, etc. and asked how they were making money paying for all this?

Demand should be strong for residential in the town center just because of the lack of inventory in the fairfax area and the proximity to restaurants/entertainment.  

Think take out food tenants vs in restaurant dining tenants.