That expansion continued last year, even as the pandemic devastated the restaurant industry. While restaurant industry sales fell roughly 22% in 2020, Portillo’s brought in an estimated $455 million in sales, down just 7% from 2019, according to data from Technomic, a Chicago-based food service research and consulting firm. Overall, sales at fast casual restaurants were down about 9%.
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