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From 2016 to 2017, sales of the United States restaurant industry were forecasted to increase by *** percent, down from a *** percent increase from the previous year.

Restaurant industry sales figures

The restaurant industry in the United States typically constitutes of two distinct restaurant types - full-service and quick-service. Food and drink sales of full-service restaurants were forecasted to reach over *** billion U.S. dollars in 2017, making it the restaurant type with the highest sales in the industry. Comparatively, sales of quick-service restaurants were forecasted to amount to around *** billion U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, the total food and drink sales in the U.S. restaurant industry were forecasted to amount to nearly *** billion U.S. dollars in 2017, compared to approximately *** billion one year earlier. The biggest contributor to the industry in terms of food and drink sales in the United States is McDonald’s, with sales of more than ** billion U.S. dollars in 2018.

Do higher sales mean more jobs?

Restaurants in the U.S. have established a flourishing industry that, besides being profitable for businesses, has also created many jobs. The number of people employed in the U.S. restaurant industry reached to million as of May 2018.