On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:20:18 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>It's the last sentence in the paragraph that caught my attention. Do
>you believe the statement?
>
><http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...-schools-20100
>717,0,7359675.story>
>
>"This country cooks. Something like 70 percent of all meals are going to
>be prepared in one form or another by someone in the house," says Harry
>Balzer, chief industry analyst of the NPD Group, where he has followed
>Americans' eating and drinking patterns for 25 years. "The average
>American gets about 200 meals (a year) from a restaurant and that's
>almost unchanged for 10 years."

We're Canadians so it may not count.
We normally drive into town once a week and probably on 3/4 of those
trips we eat lunch in a restaurant. That makes it abut 40 restaurant
meals a year. We alternate between three places where we really enjoy
the food, a 50's themed place, Wimpy's; a Vietnamese, Pho Nam Thanh;
and a Middle Eastern, Diwan.

Ross.