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$8

$8 -- average check increase for US restaurants (family dining parties) (2009)

2009  · The Wall Street Journal

Dining out with kids increases the average restaurant bill by $8.

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$8
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Data Vintage
2009
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US restaurants (family dining parties)
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
The Wall Street Journal Primary Tier C
https://mad4marketing.com/2009/09/07/do-restaurants-risk-losing-adults-while-reaching-for-kids/ ↗
Confidence: 51/100 Vintage: 2009 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Do restaurants risk losing adults while reaching for kids?
The following is an editorial blog by Stuart Dornfield. All comments and opposing views are welcome. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that restaurants in an attempt to get more families to dine out are “scrambling to counter a tendency by recession-pinched parents to leave their children at…
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Average bill increase when dining out with kids, as cited from Wall Street Journal reporting

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US restaurants (family dining parties): $8 average check increase. Source: The Wall Street Journal (2009). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/dining-with-kills-bill-increase-2009
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