{"id":23735,"date":"2010-07-04T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23735"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:13:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:13:48","slug":"spending-on-groceries-and-restaurants-by-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/04\/spending-on-groceries-and-restaurants-by-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending on Groceries and Restaurants, by City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bundle presents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bundle.com\/article\/food-spending-in-the-biggest-US-cities-11040\" target=\"_blank\">the following infographic<\/a> detailing how much people in various U.S. cities spend restaurants and groceries (some highlights below): <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/04\/spending-on-groceries-and-restaurants-by-city\/bundle_foodanddrink_bycityxl-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23739\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/bundle_foodanddrink_bycityXL-copy-318x1024.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"1298\" \/><\/a> The average household in the U.S. spends 37% of its food and drink budget in restaurants. In Hialeah, Florida, 69% of food and drink spending is spent on groceries instead of dining out; the largest proportion of spending in eating in. Atlanta is on the other side of the spectrum, with 57% of the food budget spent at restaurants. Households in Austin spend the most on food ($12,447) with more than half of that spent dining out. In contrast, people in Detroit spend the least ($2,246), As the graphic notes, &#8220;five average Detroit households can eat on one Austinite&#8217;s food budget.&#8221; On average, in U.S. households 17% of spending goes towards food and drink. The largest proportion of spending allocated towards food and drink is found in Denver (22%), but my city, Los Angeles, is not far behind (21%). Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/05\/13\/what-america-spends-on-food-and-drink\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flowing Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bundle presents the following infographic detailing how much people in various U.S. cities spend restaurants and groceries (some highlights below): The average household in the U.S. spends 37% of its food and drink budget in restaurants. In Hialeah, Florida, 69% of food and drink spending is spent on groceries instead of dining out; the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,227,229,36,2124],"class_list":["post-23735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-commodification","tag-consumption","tag-economics","tag-foodagriculture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23735"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59971,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions\/59971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}