articleThe Brief Many restaurants across the country are experiencing declining sales and customer visits to their business resulting from the cyclospora outbreak. The cyclospora outbreak was first connected to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in multiple states. Restaurants are enduring the ripple effect of a cyclospora outbreak connected to shredded lettuce that has sickened thousands of people in the United States. The Associated Press reported that federal health officials first linked the cyclospora outbreak to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. Sweetgreen, which has 285 locations in the U.S., said in a statement obtained by the AP that its food hasn’t been linked to the current cyclospora outbreak.