Where and when do we eat?
- Time Use Survey data on eating out
- Looser patterns of mealtimes on weekends
- Eating alone and with others
- Occasions for eating out
- Less time spent at restaurants
- Income, age, attitudes and restaurant supply play a role in eating out
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Income, age, attitudes and restaurant supply play a role in eating out
The impressions of people who have meals outside the home created by the Time Use Survey and the study on trends of eating out are very consistent, regardless of the fact that the data are different. Eating at restaurants is very unevenly distributed among the population. The groups that eat out the most are young people in their twenties and thirties who live alone and childless couples, and the groups to eat out the least frequently are couples and those living alone aged 45 or over. Families with children are found between the two extremes. This change has taken place very slowly over two or even three decades. Childless young couples are eating out more often than ever. The ageing people do not seem to have returned to restaurants, even when they enjoy a good income and young children do not prevent them from going out. In this respect, however, signs of change can be observed. The frequency at which we eat out is thus affected by many other factors than just our income. It is possibly a question of both attitudes and the restaurant supply. Roadside restaurants have emerged as the place for eating out for rural areas and pensioners.
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1 This article is based on a study published by the National Consumer Research Centre in 2012 Varjonen and Peltoniemi: Eating out as an aspect of changes in eating habits 1990–2010. Publications 1/2012. National Consumer Research Centre.
2 The Finnish Hospitality Association MaRa handed over their data from 2008 and 2010 to the National Consumer Research Centre for the study referred to above. In the MaRa study, respondents aged 15 or over were asked if they had eaten at a restaurant in the two weeks preceding the interview. The results pertain to those respondents who had eaten out at least once in that period.
Päivitetty 20.3.2013