Eating food away from home at a restaurant where somebody else prepared the meal was a hallmark of a high-income lifestyle in 1967. In the mid-1960s, households in the top quintile spent 27 percent of their food budget on food away from home. But by 2017, the average bottom-quintile household spent 34 percent of its food budget away from home, far more than the top quintile did in the mid-1960s and more than even the top 1 percent did.
