According to a Recent Study/Survey … Mid-September 2018 Edition

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's "According to ..." research roundup features the Good Food 100 Restaurants, fast food foot traffic in NYC,  the top signs of a foodie, Mexican food trends, how the combination of 5G, AI and IoT is set to change the Americas and the appeal of natural cork. 

Best Sales Growth in Nearly Three YearsThe restaurant industry continued its recovery in August. Same-store sales were up 1.8 percent, making it the best month since September of 2015. However, Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast in August last year, greatly impacting sales in the last week of that month, giving restaurants a built-in advantage. That soft comparison resulted in same-store sales growth of 2.9 percent for the last week of August 2018. These insights come from TDn2K’s Black Box Intelligence™ data, based on weekly sales from over 30,000 locations representing 170+ brands and nearly $70 billion in annual sales. “Regardless of the hurricane…