TV chefs fail to halt the swing to eating out more
Despite being urged to re-learn the art of cooking good food at home, not least by a brigade of TV chefs, in four years’ time Britons will be spending about a third of the household budget for food and drink on eating it away from home.
This is the view of Horizons, with a forecast that in 2011, of the £140 billion or so which from current trends Britons will spend in total on food and drink, £45 billion of that will be in the likes of restaurants, pubs and takeaways.
That will be an 11% increase on the £37.6 billion spent on eating out last year.
Horizons managing director Peter Backman says this growth in preferring to eat out rather than cook a meal at home is being driven by hectic lifestyles and the fact that it is often viewed as being cheaper to eat out than buy the ingredients to cook a meal.