Restaurants & cafés in California

3,207 licensed restaurants in California, every one holding an ABC on-sale license. The median one has been licensed since 2020.

Restaurants are the most-sold business in America and the least loyal: owners decide at the kitchen table and list within weeks. They trade around 2.18x owner earnings, median sale about $220K, and most sell in six to nine months. In quota-full California counties the liquor license itself can be worth more than the kitchen, and that floor is built into every range here.

Ranges appear where the public record gives a real revenue signal; the rest of the pages ask the owner for two numbers.