Dine-In restaurants are still suffering in a major way from the fallout of the pandemic, the NPD Group says.

Dine-in visits to restaurants were down 48% in the 12 months ending September 2021 compared to the pre-pandemic level in the year ending September 2019.

The brunt of the pain was felt by full-service restaurants as sales were 17% below this September compared to the September 2019 level. For year-over-year, they saw their business rise by 7% over a 23% decline September 2020 to the same month in 2019.

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