Poor Economy or Not, People Keep Dining Out

You can blame upper-income Americans for many things, but don’t blame them for the restaurant industry’s lackluster performance. Based on a Gallup poll conducted last month, the chart here gives dining-out data for adults in general. Among respondents with annual household income of $75,000 or higher, by contrast, 40 percent dined out three or more times in the week before being polled; 49 percent dined out once or twice during that week. Conversely, just 11 percent of these upper-income respondents hadn’t dined out at all in the previous week, vs.