More Than Half Of All Americans Didn't Go Out To Eat Last Year: Census Bureau

Friday, October 21, 2011
More than half of all Americans say they've recently gone a year without dining out, in what may be one of the clearest reflections yet of how the listless economy is restricting choices for consumers.

Only 49.3 percent of adults say they "dined out" between fall 2009 and fall 2010, according to recently released figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. That's the lowest percentage since 2007, when just 48.7 percent of adults said they had dined out in the past year.
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