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Attendance, Sales, Earn Summerfest a Smiley Face

Attendance and refreshment sales both logged gains during this year's  Summerfest. Milwaukee World Festival reports preliminary attendance figures show more than 840,000 visited the 11 day lakefront event this year. That's a four percent increase over 2012. Food and beverage sales were up by seven percent.