Retail Foodservice Sales Rose 1% In September And Census Bureau Revised July and August Sales Higher

Maybe things weren’t quite as bad for restaurant sales this summer as we previously believed. The Census Bureau, as part of its “Advance Retail Sales” report released Oct. 17, said sales at food services and drinking places rose a relatively strong 1% in September to $96.4 billion compared to August’s upwardly revised $95.4 billion on…