| Curbside
takeout has become one of the fastest growing areas of the
$550 billion restaurant industry in the United States. Takeout
sales at casual dining chains have grown about 10% annually over
the last three years - double the annual rate of their overall
growth, according to Technomic, a restaurant consulting firm.
Technomic estimates that some 20% of the growth in curbside and
takeout has comes at the expense of in-restaurant dining.
In 2005, only 58% of all main
dinner dishes were made from scratch, a steady drop from 65% in
1995, according to NPD.
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$1.28
trillion
Annual amount spent on food
by US consumers, according to the 1Q 2006 GDP data
(Source:US Commerce
Dept.)
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