Restaurant Retail Sales Rose 1% Month-Over-Month In March, Surpassing $75 Billion For First Time

Retail sales at “food services and drinking places,” which are mostly restaurants, rose 1% on a seasonally adjusted basis in March compared to February, according to the preliminary advance monthly retail-sales report from the Census Bureau released April 14. Total bar and restaurant sales for the month hit $75.4 billion, the first time monthly sales…