But how much, exactly, should you spend on dining out versus contributing to savings?
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Customers have been shrinking their budgets and cutting back on dining out in the weak economy.
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The pair are among a group of packaged food companies that have benefited as Americans cut down on dining out to eat at home and save money.
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This means less to spend on dining out.
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The breakdown of spending from a typical consumer is as follows: 7.5 percent on groceries, 5 percent on dining out, 4.5 percent on gas, 2 percent on travel, 1 percent on rotating categories that some cards offer on a quarterly basis, and 0.5 percent on department stores.
Footnote No. 5: Mr. Obama keeps dining out on the excuse of the recession, but that ended halfway through his first year.
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High up in the Staffordshire Moorlands in the village of Endon, Liberal Democrat candidate Christina Jebb has her campaign leaflets set out on the dining table.
Skipping that two-week vacation, cutting down on the amount you spend dining out, and saving your next raise or bonus, are also simple methods of adding to your emergency fund.
Atlanta also came out on top for dining, amenities and business traveler services.
Less than one-third of all visitors to Venice stick around after sunset, missing out on romantic canalside dining and family-run guesthouses tucked away behind the Strada Nova pedestrian thoroughfare in the district of Cannaregio.
Apparently the frequency with which consumers are dining out has been on the rise since mid-2009, presumably since contracting during the worst part of the recession and stock market collapse, and the writers at The Fiscal Times think it may have something to do with cost.
You then grab firmly on to the legs of the dining room table and he grabs firmly on to your ankles and drags you out down the front steps.
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While Sall made herself busy in the kitchen, I would sit in the dining room with the paper spread out on the table, or I would listen to the radio, staring out at the garden and fiddling with the dials to get a better signal.
In the new tradition of fast-casual dining, you get on line (which often spills out into the street) to order and the food is brought to you at large communal tables.
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All she knows is that the pair was dining in the Oberoi hotel restaurant in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday night when shots rang out.
This trend toward dining out has continued: 2011 figures show that the average American spends 6% more eating out than on meals made in their own kitchens.
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Users are asked to fill in some basic information (annual income, gender, location) and their weekly expenses on food, which is separated into two spending categories: at-home (groceries, booze) and dining-out (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and again, booze).
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