Falling grocery prices, rising restaurant prices, and a time-crunched culture are adding up to one thing: a steady decline in the practice of eating out for lunch.
From the Wall Street Journal:
“I put [restaurant] lunch right up there with fax machines and pay phones,” said Jim Parks, a 55-year-old sales director who used to dine out for lunch nearly every day but found in recent years that he no longer had room for it in his schedule. Like Mr. Parks, many U.S. workers now see stealing away for an hour at the neighborhood diner in the middle of the day as a luxury. Even the classic “power lunch” is falling out of favor among power brokers.
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