In article
>,
Stan Horwitz > wrote:

> In article >,
> 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."
>
> It depends on the health of the economy. More people eat home when the
> economy goes south, like now, because eating out is the first place
> people look to when they need to save money.

I don't know, Stan. Lots of restaurants are offering special deals to
get people in the door and it seems to be working, based on what I've
seen.


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