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A food-safety outbreak's traffic penalty outlives the official all-clear.
Consumer trust damaged by contamination recovers on a quarterly timescale regardless of CDC resolutions or menu fixes, with perception healing far slower than the epidemiology.
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Fast Food & the Consumer Squeeze
Chipotle Q2 2026: Resilient Comps but Industry-Wide Cyclospora and Salmonella Outbreaks Cloud H2 Outlook Even an uninvolved chain still books the outbreak drag in forward guidance a full quarter after removing the affected ingredients, proving the penalty persists beyond the news cycle.
Fast Food & the Consumer Squeeze
Taco Bell's Post-Cyclospora Traffic Slump Persists Even After the CDC Declares the Outbreak Over — and Yum Is Now Selling Pizza Hut Two months after the CDC declared the outbreak over, Taco Bell's traffic still has not recovered — perception damage outliving the epidemiology on a quarterly timescale.