Restaurants in Fort Wayne, IN

Fort Wayne lists 1,129 places in this guide, and 801 are restaurants. Quick service spots number 127, cafes 88 and bars 110. Pizza (101), bars (98) and coffee shops and cafes (88) are the three largest categories among the places listed.

Fort Wayne's density of 41.3 places per ten thousand residents sits a little under the 41.8 median across all cities.

687 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (28), Starbucks (25), McDonald's (17) and Taco Bell (14).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Fort Wayne ranks #209 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

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