With customers across every foodservice category in every US state, we began tracking restaurant sales trends across the US at the onset of the pandemic in 2020. This post provides a look back at that data and how the industry began rising toward recovery.
QSR: 99% (-1%)
Fast Casual: 98% (+5%)
Full-Service Dining: 67% (-5%)
Entertainment Venues: 32% (-1%)
Airport/Travel Concessions: 32% (-2%)
This data from 2020 shows weekly foodservice sales at chain restaurants in the United States on the Crunchtime operations management platform across the following segments: Airport Concessions, Entertainment Venues, Fast Casual, Full-Service Dining, and Quick Service.
Sales data includes: credit cards, cash, online orders, take-out, and delivery (all store sales collected from a POS).
Independent (non-chain) restaurants are not included in this sample. Only states with a statistically significant number of locations across each segment were used for this data analysis.
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