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May 2000

Let’s do lunch: expenditures on meals away from home

Geoffrey D. Paulin

Lunch is the most frequently purchased meal away from home: income, age, and ethnicity are among the most important predictors of the probability of eating out; however, regardless of meal purchased, family type is a less important predictor

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Let’s do lunch: expenditures on meals away from home

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