Do New Yorkers still cook today? Research Review.

“Food has replaced music at the heart of the cultural conversation,” (Dornbusch) Somehow the focus of culture has drifted towards food and the experience one gets from the act itself.  People commonly refer to themselves as a foodie, a person with a particular interest in food; a gourmet. With that being said, Dornbusch focuses on the percentage of people that eat out vs the more traditional cooking at home method due to cost. She references a study that was done on the costs of eating out, it being cheaper by nearly $2 or $3 dollars than cooking at home. To test this absurd theory in her eyes, she goes out to eat and then replicates the meal at home herself.  The costs are very close as far as grocery shopping goes but with left overs taken into account, cooking at home resulted in being much cheaper. This article helps support my thesis of how cooking has changed throughout the years.  With grocery cost so high, eating out can seem more likely than cooking at home.

Another focus I have is what are the leading causes for people eating out?  Seasonal trends in restaurants show that sales drop around the holiday. People are staying in more to cook or spend time with their family. Yet fast food restaurants thrive during this time, while dine in restaurants suffer. Is this due to the fact of a busy schedule? Needing to be on the go? This ties directly into NYC living of constantly being on the go. The article helps bring light to the causes of how cooking or food as a culture has changed.

This article focuses more on the numbers and trends of the restaurant industry. "Restaurants have grown from 25 percent of food spending in the 1950s to more than half, today. The shift has been accelerating: In the last decade, spending at restaurants and bars has grown twice as fast as all other retail spending, like clothes and cars." Millennials  particularly in the past 10 years have increased the amount of spending money that ever before. This might be due to the new culture trend of food. Extra funds that can be spent towards eating and drinking, or maybe the huge convenience of take out options that are available. Take out companies such as Seamless, Grub Hub, Postmates, and Uber eats make ordering food online utterly effortless. This article taps into the huge market of takeout and how it's grown throughout the years.

Dornbusch, Jane . “Is eating out cheaper than cooking at home?” Boston Globe, Aug. 20ADAD, 2013, www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2013/08/20/put-new-study-test-eating-out-cheaper-than-cooking-home/CytldzC97LORKpESA31RTI/story.html.

Thompson, Derek. “The Paradox of American Restaurants.” The Atlantic , June 20ADAD, 2017, www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/its-the-golden-age-of-restaurants-in-america/530955/.

Higuera, Valencia. “Easonal Factors Affecting the Restaurant Industry.” Chron, smallbusiness.chron.com/seasonal-factors-affecting-restaurant-industry-31192.html.