Finding the Best Location for New Restaurant Using GIS Technologies

Abstract

Restaurants has become one of the most important facilities that generates a huge amount of revenues in community that helps in economic growth of the country ,it’s not just a place for serving food and drinks but it’s also one of the important tourism places that visitors could come to. The research aims to find best location for building a restaurant that guarantees its suitability, accessibility, durability, and visibility. GIS which is a powerful tool in spatial analysis and decision making can be utilized for this purpose efficiently and effectively, using weighted site selection analysis in defining the problem, collecting data, ranking criteria according to their weights and re-classifying the criteria using weighted sum equation to obtain the suitability map. This research took Khartoum locality as study area and “Papa costa” restaurant as an example to find the best location to build a new “papa costa” branch. The final result visualized the optimal site to build a new “Papa costa” branch in term of compatibility with the study criteria is in the area near Nile Street.