More than half of Texas restaurants report same or higher April sales - Houston Business Journal:

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The monthly tracking report surve from the Texas Restaurant Association also shows that 39 percenft ofthe state's restaurant operators expectt sales to improve in the next six months, while anothe r 54 percent expect sales to be about the same. Twenty-nin e percent of those polled say overalp business conditions will be better in the next six montha while about 57 percentsay they'll be abougt the same as they are now.
The national outloom is more evenly split, with 30 percent of operatores expecting sales to declinde and 37 percent expecting sales to hold according to the National Restaurantt About half of those polled in Texas say their employee totals are about the same as they were a year ago and 71 percentt expect that total will stay in plac for the nextsix months. Also, about half of the Texaw operators say they made capital expenditures in the lastthrese months, and 64 percent say they plan to make such expenditureas in the next six months.