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It is not surprising to note that a meal eaten at a restaurant is more expensive than one eaten at home. You are paying for the cooking and service, as well as for the food itself. What is surprising is that people are actually spending more money eating out than eating at home overall.
Official figures released in Britain show that people are spending £2 billion more on restaurant food than on food that they might cook themselves. On top of that, spending on food and drink has more than doubled in the same time period, which indicates that people are eating more food, more often.
With the rise in popularity of cooking programs and the ever-growing trend for gourmet home cooking, it is possible that the numbers will hold as they are, though few people want to give up "exotic" foods that they think they can't cook at home, like curries and sushi.
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8-20-2006 @12:41PM Dan Tannenbaum said... Nicole,
One thing you fail to mention: Most people work long hours and use this time to relax and chat with friends. No cooking in a hot kitchen or hot grill is involved. And let's not even THINK about doing the dishes after we cook!
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8-20-2006 @12:53PM Belle said... And sometimes, if you get lucky, you find a few great restaurants that offer good, specialty food at a decent price - and it actually can end up costing the same or more to get the same ingredients yourself and cook it up at home.
But when I want to relax with friends, I much prefer doing it at home.
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8-20-2006 @1:21PM Nicola Hill said... It doesn't take many meals out in the UK in a week to vastly exceed your weekly use of ingredients at home. It's pretty tricky to eat regularly at £15 a head, unless you like fatty pub grub. £30 a head is still a less-expensive meal. Eating out twice a week isn't unusual, so unless you dine at home on lobsters, foie gras, caviar and organic fillet steak, with biodynamic vegetables, you'll struggle to spend as much on it.
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