Posted on 06/23/2023 1:56:55 PM PDT by Libloather
The average American household is now spending $3,631 on takeout food every year - but there is one area where residents spend far above the national average.
People living in the District of Columbia typically spend $6,241 a year on takeout - or $120 a week per household - according to a new study by Betway.
Hawaii residents came in second, with the average home forking out $4,647 per year, followed by Maine in third with a typical spend of $4,499, Vermont with $4,443 and New Hampshire with $4,402.
Oklahoma is the state where people are spending the least, with the typical household only budgeting $2,756 per year for ordering in.
The study found that almost 54 million Americans are using food delivery apps, with pizza being the most popular takeout food across the country.
Across the US, delivery lovers are searching for 'pizza takeout' and 'pizza delivery' 309,100 times a month on average.
This equated for 76 percent of all monthly Google searches for different kinds of food analyzed in the study.
Chinese food is the second most popular cuisine - with 37,500 searches a month, and sushi comes in third with 22,900 searches.
Tacos were the country's fourth favorite option, with 7,200 searches.
While people living in the District of Columbia spent the most annually on delivery, New York is home to the highest concentration of takeout fans in the country.
The study considered the number of searches on delivery apps such as Uber Eats and DoorDash per 1,000 residents and found that 45 searches are made every month per 1,000 residents in the Big Apple.
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Half that! Cuz we ‘pick-up’ our ‘take-out’.
A lot of people simply do not cook. On special occasions, they may throw a Stouffer’s Lasagna in the microwave. Just like Mama used to make.
Factor in cost of food, time of prep, cleanup, cost of
Prep, tips,quality of ingredients, uncontrolled fats and salt in take out, time to wait for delivery, not knowing if prep people were hygienic...probably better to cook at home.
My wife and I spend around $300 a year on take out.
Take out is not healthy eating.
Bogus #’s. I do not spend 120.00 Dollars per week at the grocery and eat like a King (Thank you God!) and even end up stock piling staple items. It’s a shame these needless articles that defy monetary logic....but their are a lot of fool’s in our republic.
Zero. No one delivers to a good address, only city addresses.
Maybe half a dozen delivered orders to our house within a year. We are not in that demographic.
We usually go out to eat at a Restaurant once a week, fast food Never, once in a while take out pizza.
We neither buy nor eat pre-processed foods either, my Wife cooks and prepares everything fresh, we even make our own pasta and bread, grow a lot of vegetables, fruit trees and with over a dozen chickens we never run out of eggs.
Hardly ever use them now but I do eat out frequently.
No one delivers where I live. I am a bit into the country. Maybe a pizza place somewhere will but haven’t had food delivered since moving out to the sticks.
I live so far from the nearest restaurant the food would be stone cold before I got it home.
Yuck. After the Hep A outbreak here that spread among the restaurants and fastfood places, cooking at home is advised.
Besides, we love to cook....and eat well.
I have only ever once had food delivered. I was on Nantucket (no jokes please) when Hurricane Bob was threatening in 1991, and standing by the landline phone for a slot on a ferry to the mainland. I didn’t want to miss my slot, so I had pizza delivered.
I have only ever once had food delivered. I was on Nantucket (no jokes please) when Hurricane Bob was threatening in 1991, and standing by the landline phone for a slot on a ferry to the mainland. I didn’t want to miss my slot, so I had pizza delivered.
We get stuff delivered almost every Friday. Nice way to end the week. Especially in this modern world with Uber and Doordash and whatever. You just tell your phone to bring you food and walla, food appears. Awesome stuff.
No delivery of any ‘fast food’ where I live. I wouldn’t eat it, anyway.
We either raise it, fish for it, grow it or kill it and grill it. ;)
Otherwise, I cook.
-PJ
We have take-out about once a month, now that I think about it. Chinese, pizza, or the fried fish place. Depends on how many of us are getting together, probably averages $100 or so each time.
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