Damn! First you started drinking at home…now you are cooking for yourselves. What’s a restaurateur to do if this goes on? It’s been all downhill ever since you consumers learned to rub sticks together and make fire…
Interest in home cooking is currently growing in response to rising food and gas prices and an insatiable demand for premium foods at an affordable price. [...] A study conducted in May of 2008 by the Food Marketing Institute indicates that approximately 71% of Americans are cooking more at home.
From Restaurants & Institutions:
http://www.rimag.com/articleXML/LN824075380.html?nid=3458&rid=789908471
And as if that isn’t hurting dinner business enough, there’s this:
Bagging lunch; the inflation effect; Poor economy alters workers’ lunch habits
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Snider is part of a growing tide of midday restaurant regulars who are changing their habits to save cash. In fact, online bag retailer eBags.com says sales of lunch bags and coolers increase 39 percent in June over the year before.
