City of Philadelphia

Healthy Chinese Takeout Initiative

Name: Healthy Chinese Takeout Initiative
Creator: City of Philadelphia

Chinese takeout restaurants in Philadelphia that participated in the city's Healthy Chinese Takeout Initiative, a 2015 public health program targeting sodium and calorie reduction. Each record includes the restaurant name, address, and zip code.

Example records

Namebrand	ZIP Codeaddress	Street Addressaddress	Xgeospatial	Ygeospatial	Objectididentifier
GOLDEN DRAGON	19143	5260 RODMAN ST	-8374337.66556474	4858845.78895879	362
New Canton House Restaurant	19143	724 S 52ND ST	-8374277.61249672	4858407.20207669	361
NEW CHINA GOURMET RESTAURANT	19143	4604 WOODLAND AVE	-8372323.01585565	4857849.73213688	360

Use cases

Health-Conscious Franchise Expansion Targeting

A food-service distributor or health-focused supplier identifies which Philadelphia zip codes had the highest concentration of restaurants willing to adopt public health standards, using that signal to prioritize outreach to similar operators in adjacent markets.

NameZIP CodeStreet Address

Small Business Loan Portfolio Geospatial Screening

A community development lender cross-references its existing loan book against this dataset to flag restaurant borrowers that participated in a city health program, treating voluntary compliance as a soft indicator of owner engagement and operational stability.

NameStreet AddressZIP CodeXY

Insurance Underwriting for Restaurant Liability

A commercial insurance underwriter uses participation in a municipal health initiative as a supplemental data point when pricing general liability or food-safety coverage for Chinese takeout operators, distinguishing businesses that engaged with city health standards from those that did not.

NameStreet AddressZIP Code