{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"We Now Spend More At Restaurants Than at Grocery Stores","description":"Generations of Americans who gathered around a kitchen table for home-cooked meals would be puzzled by the way we eat today: As of last year, we now spend more on food at restaurants than we do on supermarket groceries—a reversal of a decades-old pattern.\n\nSpending on food in both categories is up in recent years. But retail sales at eating establishments have grown much faster.\n\nThe fact that we're spending more on restaurants than on groceries, Quartz.","author_name":"TIME's Top Stories","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/3380207-time-s-top-stories","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/22596909/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}