Melba's Jammin' > wrote in
:

> "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."

The math doesn't work or we are missing parameters.

If 70% of meal are prepared in the home, and only 200 meals (the
other 30% one assumes) a year are eaten out, that means that the
average USAian only eats 222 days out 365 (assuming three meals a
day). That is if 200 is indeed 30% as he suggests.

If we change that to cover two meals a day, the number of 333 days
is much closer to a full year.