Virus Fears Don’t Keep Customers Away From Fast Food, Starbucks
A employee picks up a fried chicken sandwiches at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in New York, U.S.
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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As of early March, Americans were still frequenting big restaurant chains, in spite of the worsening coronavirus pandemic.
Starbucks Corp. and McDonald’s Corp. customer traffic rose 4.2% and 2.9%, respectively, in the U.S. for the week and a half ended March 7 from the same time a year ago, according to data from Placer.ai. Chick-fil-A results jumped 12%, even as confirmed infections continued to rise in the U.S.