James Silverton wrote:

> I wonder what they are counting as restaurants? A large number of
> Americans eat lunch in cafeterias, in other words, say, 48x5 =240 meals
> a year. A good fraction of those may be school kids and they probably
> eat closer to 200 of course. For myself, even if I am retired, I eat in
> a restaurant at very least once a week, most often lunch. I have to add
> to that, the prepared food I may take home, often salads from a salad
> bar. I wonder how frozen entrees and canned soups are counted?


I have to wonder too about what they are counting as restaurants. When
I was working I ate lunch or dinner in restaurants every day, four days
a week 46 weeks a year. I also went to coffee shops for my coffee
breaks twice a day most days. When I was still working my wife and I
usually had lunch or dinner in a restaurant at least once a week.

Now that I am retired I still go out for coffee every day. I have one
meal a week in a restaurant.