{"id":11661,"date":"2017-03-07T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:00:01","slug":"spending-in-restaurants-at-a-five-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/spending-in-restaurants-at-a-five-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending in restaurants at a five-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Eating out at restaurants, as well as spending nights in hotels is at a five year high. This was in contrast to a record low, when spending was at a minimum. The new report showed that households had not completely recovered from 2008, when there was a financial crisis. There have been shifts in what people are spending their money on.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">British household spend on restaurants, caf\u00e9s and hotels went above \u00a345 per week for the first time since 2011, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics for the year ending March 2016.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Restaurants and hotels came in fifth place in total at \u00a345.10, just under food and non-alcoholic drinks (\u00a356.80); recreation and culture (\u00a368); housing, fuel and power (\u00a372.50); and transport (\u00a372.50).<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">This contrasted to a record low in spend on alcohol and cigarettes \u2013 separate to alcohol in pubs or restaurants \u2012 which fell to below \u00a312 per week for the first time since comparable records began in 2001-2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;In a statement, Jo Bulman, ONS statistician, said: \u201cWhile overall household spending didn\u2019t change much in real terms since the previous year, we did see some interesting shifts in the types of things people are spending their money on.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bighospitality.co.uk\/Business\/Spending-in-restaurants-at-a-five-year-high?utm_source=RSS_text_news&#038;utm_medium=RSS_feed&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Text_News\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bighospitality.co.uk\/Business\/Spending-in-restaurants-at-a-five-year-high?utm_source=RSS_text_news&#038;utm_medium=RSS_feed&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Text_News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating out at restaurants, as well as spending nights in hotels is at a five year high. This was in contrast to a record low, when spending was at a minimum. The new report showed that households had not completely recovered from 2008, when there was a financial crisis. There have been shifts in what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}