This statistic shows the annual change in restaurant industry sales in the United States from 1990 to 2016. Sales of the U.S. restaurant industry increased by 1.5 percent in 2015 over the previous year and were forecasted to increase by 2.1 percent in 2016. In 2015, food and drink sales in the United States restaurant industry amounted to 745.61 billion U.S. dollars. In that year, McDonald’s accounted for 17 percent of the U.S. fast food industry.

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