Baby Boomers – Are You Eating Out Less and Enjoying It More?
My husband and I have a favorite restaurant. We go there at least once a week, usually more. We just realized last weekend that we haven’t been there in two weeks. The reason – we decided to eat out less. And it appears that many other Baby Boomers are doing the same thing.
When we were children, my husband and I remember, eating out was a rare treat. When we traveled in the summer with my father (a service representative who traveled every week), we thought it was cool to go to Howard Johnson’s for every meal. But at home, we rarely ate out. Same thing with my husband’s family.
It was only when we were in college that we started eating out more. Now, we consider it a rare treat to stay home and cook. Well, up until a month or so ago. Now, we plan our meals to eat in more and out less. We want to be sure we don’t have to cash out any of our retirement funds.
I just hope our favorite restaurant, a local place that’s been around for more than 30 years, stays around a lot more. As soon as we can, we’ll start going back regularly again. Fried chicken, anyone?
How about you? Are you eating out less? Take my poll or comment on this page.
3 Comments
Totally agree. I’ve started having groceries delivered, after carefully selecting recipes for the week – I LOVE it…and so does my wallet!
Thanks for the comment, Rachel. I hear you can get groceries delivered from Amazon. That seems the ultimate in craziness, but you never know.
Same thing here in Australia although I don’t think we eat out as much as you guys do in the US anyway. People are starting to be concerned about the financial future and their continued mortgage payments. It’s the planned meals around shop specials and shopping lists that seem to save money the most.