Salad Chains Are Seeing Foot Traffic Drop Over Cyclosporiasis Fears
Fear of explosive diarrhea seems to be scaring customers away from the purveyors of salad in business districts and strip malls across the US. On Sunday, July 11, as news of a massive cyclospora outbreak—possibly linked to contaminated lettuce—made headlines, traffic at Chopt fell by 7.1 percent, compared to the chain’s average Sunday traffic in…
