The guide for 2007, $16.95, evaluates 526 restaurants, compared with 507 last year.
Sales at individual chain restaurants, compared with a year earlier, began dropping in early 2016, analysts reported.
It has some catching up to do France has 26 three-star restaurants compared with 10 in Germany.
More Americans also eat out now, spending 40percentt of the food dollar at restaurants compared with 27percentt in 1970.
The association's statistics show that 48 cents of every food dollar is now spent at restaurants, compared with 40.5 cents per dollar in 1985.
Executives with Ruth's Chris said they felt that more women had been drawn to their restaurants compared with other steakhouses partly because of the company's roots.
Moscow, a city of 13 million, so far has only about 300 pizza restaurants — compared with 4,000 in Manhattan, which has a population of about 1.6 million.
A lopsided 82 percent of voters support the use of letter grades to evaluate restaurants, compared with 14 percent who do not, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
Today, barely 2% of all eating out in China happens in fast-food restaurants, compared with 32% in America, 25% in Japan, or 18% in Hong Kong.
Money-tracking sites like Mint, Wesabe and Quicken Online pull financial information from the accounts of users and analyze it with graphs showing, say, how much money they spend in restaurants compared with how much they are saving for retirement.
