Monthly food sales by outlet type, 2019
Every month of the USDA Economic Research Service monthly outlet-type series that falls in 2019: limited-service restaurants, full-service restaurants, food away from home and total food sales, one row per month.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service - Food Expenditure Series, Monthly sales of food, with taxes and tips, for all purchasers, by outlet type (monthly, January 1997 to December 2025; fetched 2026-10-30) (file ers_fes_monthly_outlet.csv), fetched 2026-10-30. Rows listed: the 12 rows whose Year is 2019. Values are shown as published, with thousands separators; the heading beside each figure is the source's own column heading. Full source list and licence: About.
| Month | Food sales at limited-service restaurants (millions of nominal U.S. dollars) | Food sales at full-service restaurants (millions of nominal U.S. dollars) | Total food-away-from-home sales (millions of nominal U.S. dollars) | Total food sales (millions of nominal U.S. dollars) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | $29,838.55 | $31,676.48 | $79,602.55 | $153,315.20 |
| November 2019 | $29,171.26 | $29,093.72 | $76,152.20 | $145,081.63 |
| October 2019 | $30,522.14 | $29,675.05 | $78,852.26 | $145,473.61 |
| September 2019 | $29,499.30 | $28,723.57 | $76,534.22 | $139,944.25 |
| August 2019 | $32,150.12 | $31,675.98 | $82,936.31 | $151,403.61 |
| July 2019 | $31,962.67 | $31,005.23 | $81,591.48 | $148,901.66 |
| June 2019 | $31,470.61 | $31,210.97 | $81,311.46 | $147,249.59 |
| May 2019 | $31,753.82 | $31,968.38 | $82,536.48 | $150,716.64 |
| April 2019 | $30,123.80 | $29,349.94 | $77,363.98 | $141,555.22 |
| March 2019 | $31,170.07 | $31,055.11 | $80,050.98 | $145,533.45 |
| February 2019 | $26,231.11 | $27,258.61 | $69,481.82 | $127,739.28 |
| January 2019 | $26,503.12 | $27,238.81 | $69,747.25 | $133,117.47 |
Sum of the 12 monthly rows shown above: $360,396.57 at limited-service restaurants; $1,730,031.61 total food sales.