Total estimated sales of the restaurants, caterers and taverns industry reached $3.4 billion in March, up 3.5% from March 2006. (Data are neither seasonally adjusted, nor adjusted for inflation.)
The increase in sales, at the national level, was due to higher sales at limited service restaurants (+4.4%). Sales for full service restaurants rose […]

Retail trade
March 2007
Retail sales surged in March, resulting in a strong first quarter. March’s gains were widespread with seven of eight retail sectors posting sales increases.
After two months of little change in sales growth, total retail sales rose 1.9% in March to an estimated $34.0 billion. The latest monthly […]

While Mother’s Day is traditionally known to be one of the busiest days of the year for restaurants, until recently, it was difficult to measure the impact of these occasions. I’m proud to say that Zata has changed that by through free restaurant benchmarking for restaurants.
We compared restaurant sales between Mother’s Day and the […]