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By Matthew Rees

Food and Health Fact #86: U.S. spending in the restaurant sector

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Nearly 40 percent of total U.S. spending related to food went toward restaurants and other eating establishments in 2018 – up from less than 30 percent in 2009 – according to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report. This study follows one published last year by the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts showing that fewer than 0.1 percent of meals consumed in the United States at full-service or fast-food restaurants in 2015-16 were of “ideal quality” (as defined by the American Heart Association). About 70 percent of fast-food meals, and 50 percent of full-service meals, were of “poor quality.”