{"id":20060,"date":"2018-10-22T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T22:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20060"},"modified":"2024-06-28T04:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:02:41","slug":"american-eating-habits-are-changing-faster-than-fast-food-can-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20060","title":{"rendered":"American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Restaurant_Meals_Per_Capita-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"Restaurant Meals Per Capita\" width=\"660\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Restaurant_Meals_Per_Capita-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Restaurant_Meals_Per_Capita.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Restaurants are getting dinged by the convenience of Netflix, the advent of pre-made meals, the spread of online grocery delivery, plus crushing student debt and a focus on healthy eating. Eighty-two percent of American meals are prepared at home &#8212; more than were cooked 10 years ago, according to researcher NPD Group Inc. The latest peak in restaurant-going was in 2000, when the average American dined out 216 times a year. That figure fell to 185 for the year ended in February, NPD said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-09-11\/fast-food-s-got-a-netflix-problem-as-americans-prefer-to-dine-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-09-11\/fast-food-s-got-a-netflix-problem-as-americans-prefer-to-dine-in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurants are getting dinged by the convenience of Netflix, the advent of pre-made meals, the spread of online grocery delivery, plus crushing student debt and a focus on healthy eating. Eighty-two percent of American meals are prepared at home &#8212; more than were cooked 10 years ago, according to researcher NPD Group Inc. The latest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50967,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20060\/revisions\/50967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}