Which US cities eat out more, and less

[txstateends]

http://www.bundle.com/article/how-america-eats-out/?fromMSN=true

Most:
Dallas (I believe it, as many restaurants as there are and cars in their parking lots!)
New York City
Plano (likely a similar restaurant popularity as Dallas)
Tulsa
Fort Worth (same or similar to Plano and Dallas for restaurant traffic)
Austin
Los Angeles
Miami
San Francisco
Boca Raton

Least:
Bronx
Orlando
St. Paul
Columbus, OH
Minneapolis
Charlotte
Jacksonville, FL
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Philadelphia

The chart and the exact %s....

[sr641]

Houston eats at McDonalds alot. Watch Supersize me.

[NE2]

Bronx isn't a city. It's part of New York, which is at the top. Give Orlando the frugality prize, "bundle.com" eejits.

[kphoger]

Having lived in the Chicago area, I think they must eat out a lot because there's such an abundance of fantastic restaurants.  Man, I miss the food there!

[signalman]

Bronx isn't a city. It's part of New York, which is at the top. Give Orlando the frugality prize, "bundle.com" eejits.

Brooklyn and Staten Island are mentioned too.  Again, they're part of NYC.  Eff it, they might as well go for the geographic inept award and mention what Queens does too.

[bulkyorled]

Kinda surprised LA is on there and definitely surprised Irvine is on there. But if that's based on ALL forms of eating out then nevermind. If it was just fast food then that would blow me away

[formulanone]

Pompano Beach is a big city? I suppose throwing in all of northern Broward County into one lump comprises about 300,000 people, but...anyhow, my guess is that Orlando area natives don't want to deal with the tourists. Kind of surprises me, though.

[kurumi]

Kinda surprised LA is on there and definitely surprised Irvine is on there. But if that's based on ALL forms of eating out then nevermind. If it was just fast food then that would blow me away

Very odd selection of cities overall, starting with "New York City" (Manhattan?) vs. 3 other boroughs. Fremont, CA (214,000) and Pompano Beach, FL (99,000) but not Sunnyvale, CA (140,000). Bundle.com promises "data-driven ratings" but this chart just screams "we suck at it".

[txstateends]

Kinda surprised LA is on there and definitely surprised Irvine is on there. But if that's based on ALL forms of eating out then nevermind. If it was just fast food then that would blow me away

According to the article in the link, they claim they didn't include fast food and bars.  I guess it was anything sit-down that wasn't considered fast food.

[formulanone]

Well, if you take the cities of Coral Springs (121,000), Margate (53,000), Tamarac (60,000), Coconut Creek (53,000), and Parkland (24,000) which use "Pompano Beach" (100,000) as the postal mailing address, you get around 410,000 folks, not including a few thousand that live in unincorporated areas between the city limits. Boca Raton kind of tilts the scales, since roughly two-thirds of the "postal boundaries" of Boca Raton are technically unincorporated; plus the great number of people who work within its actual city boundaries probably distorts a lot of information (since many people are likely to go out to eat when on the job).

But that Dallas number is absolutely staggering; I didn't notice a lack of supermarkets when I was in the DFW area.

[agentsteel53]

Kinda surprised LA is on there and definitely surprised Irvine is on there. But if that's based on ALL forms of eating out then nevermind. If it was just fast food then that would blow me away

there are restaurants in Irvine?  I've always seen that place as a hellhole of corporate and bank headquarters buildings. 

it is next to impossible to find a gas station or a convenience store in Irvine.

[J N Winkler]

there are restaurants in Irvine?  I've always seen that place as a hellhole of corporate and bank headquarters buildings.

Actually, that aspect may explain its high ranking--the people who work in those buildings need places for expense-account lunches.

[Beltway]

Apparently Richmond VA does not eat out at all!

[bulkyorled]

Kinda surprised LA is on there and definitely surprised Irvine is on there. But if that's based on ALL forms of eating out then nevermind. If it was just fast food then that would blow me away

there are restaurants in Irvine?  I've always seen that place as a hellhole of corporate and bank headquarters buildings. 

it is next to impossible to find a gas station or a convenience store in Irvine.

Oh yea. There's stuff in Irvine but corporate is the main focus. Its like a Sim City where you accidentally forgot a few of the important lifelines like gas or shopping so you rip down a few things and squeeze it in where you can.

[luokou]

Kinda surprised LA is on there and definitely surprised Irvine is on there. But if that's based on ALL forms of eating out then nevermind. If it was just fast food then that would blow me away

there are restaurants in Irvine?  I've always seen that place as a hellhole of corporate and bank headquarters buildings. 

it is next to impossible to find a gas station or a convenience store in Irvine.

Oh yea. There's stuff in Irvine but corporate is the main focus. Its like a Sim City where you accidentally forgot a few of the important lifelines like gas or shopping so you rip down a few things and squeeze it in where you can.

For a planned city, you'd think the Irvine Company would make it a little easier for car-driving residents to find any kind of conveniences.  Sure, there are the large open-area malls near Tustin and Lake Forest, and a whole slew of places by UCI. Still doesn't mean that i'd want to spend any time in Irvine. Besides, they way they lay out their streets makes it virtually impossible to find anything anyway.

[txstateends]

But that Dallas number is absolutely staggering; I didn't notice a lack of supermarkets when I was in the DFW area.

That's the thing -- you'd think if the #s above for Dallas are true, that almost no one ever goes to a grocery store, but, even with a few shakeups here and there, Dallas still has many different supermarkets/grocers to choose from.  The latest addition is coming in the next year: Trader Joe's has already picked out at least 3 DFW area sites for new stores.

[Duke87]

Bronx isn't a city. It's part of New York, which is at the top. Give Orlando the frugality prize, "bundle.com" eejits.

Brooklyn and Staten Island are mentioned too.  Again, they're part of NYC.  Eff it, they might as well go for the geographic inept award and mention what Queens does too.

It appears as though when they say "New York", they specifically mean Manhattan. If you included all the other boroughs, the number wouldn't be nearly as high. Manhattanites eat out a lot because there are lots of great places to do so, a lot of people don't have the kitchen space to cook much of anything themselves, and people have the money to throw around getting take-out all the time. But in the outer boroughs, space is greater, opportunities are not as great, and there are a lot of people who cannot afford to eat out very often.