Most people in the UK across all age groups eat at restaurants with table service at least a few times a year or more; According to the survey from the first half of 2020, 25 percent of 18 to 24 year olds said they eat at sit-down restaurants a few times a month, and a further six percent said they do so once a week.

In 2019/20, when asked how often they eat out at fast food restaurants, 16 percent of 18-24 year old respondents said at least once a week, compared to just four percent of 65 and overs. There was a general correlation between age and eating fast food, with younger respondents eating at fast food restaurants more often than older respondents.

Over 50 thousand restaurants registered for the UK government's 'Eat Out to Help Out Scheme' in July and August 2020. At the time the scheme ended on August 31, approximately 84,700 individual restaurant premises were registered. The discount scheme was an incentive set up to help businesses attract customers following the UK lockdown due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The scheme encouraged people to eat out at restaurants by offering them discounts on certain days of the week, which they could then claim back from the government.

Households in the United Kingdom generally spend more on eating and drinking at home than eating out; According to 2019 figures on household consumption expenditure, 55 percent of all food and beverage expenditure (including alcoholic beverages) was for at-home consumption compared to 45 percent spent on restuarants and other out-of-home food services. At the start of 2020 this trend continued, with at-home consumption accounting for 59 percent of food and drink spending in the first three months of the year.

As of August 27, 2020, approximately 522 million British pounds had been reimbursed to restaurant businesses that took part in the 'Eat Out to Help Out Scheme' in the United Kingdom. The scheme was set up in response to the COVID-19 crisis, to encourage people to eat out at restaurants following a nationwide lockdown, by offering diners discounts on certain days of the week that could be claimed back from the government. Around 85 thousand restaurants registered to take part in scheme, which lasted from July 13 to August 31, 2020.

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The Food and You Surveys (2010-2018), and Food and You 2 (2020- ) are bi-annual, cross-sectional surveys of adults aged 16 years and over living in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, commissioned by the Food Standards Agency. Food and You provides data about the prevalence of different attitudes, reported behaviour and knowledge about ways in which food is purchased, stored, prepared and eaten.

Food and You, 2010-2018
From 2010, Food and You became the FSA’s flagship social survey. In addition, the FSA conducted regular tracking surveys including the bi-annual Public Attitudes Tracker and annual Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) Consumer Attitudes Tracker (these studies are not held at UKDS. From Wave 4, Food and You included new questions to cover affordability of food, choice, security and sustainability.

Food and You 2, 2020-
In 2018, the FSA’s Advisory Committee for Social Science (ACSS) recommended that Food and You and the Public Attitudes Tracker were replaced with a new ‘push-to-web’ survey, Food and You 2, which was commissioned in 2019 with data collection commencing in July 2020. Due to differences in the survey methodologies, comparisons cannot be made between the earlier Food and You surveys, or the Public Attitudes Tracker, and Food and You 2. Therefore Food and You 2, 2020 is the start of a new data time series. Data will be collected through Food and You 2 on a bi-annual basis. Unlike the previous surveys, as well as the standard End User Licence (EUL) study for Food and You 2 the UKDS also holds additional variables under Special Licence (see SN 8815).

Further information may be found on the FSA's Food and You Survey webpage.

Main Topics:

The 2010 questionnaire covered the following topics:

• household information
• healthy eating
• shopping
• food safety
• physical activity
• physical measurements (respondents' perception)
• demographics

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Background:
A household food consumption and expenditure survey has been conducted each year in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1940. At that time the National Food Survey (NFS) covered a sample drawn solely from urban working-class households, but this was extended to a fully demographically representative sample in 1950. From 1957 onwards the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) provided information on all household expenditure patterns including food expenditure, with the NFS providing more detailed information on food consumption and expenditure. The NFS was extended to cover Northern Ireland from 1996 onwards. In April 2001 these surveys were combined to form the Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS), which completely replaced both series. From January 2008, the EFS became known as the Living Costs and Food (LCF) module of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS). As a consequence of this change, the questionnaire was altered to accommodate the insertion of a core set of questions, common to all of the separate modules which together comprised the IHS. Some of these core questions are simply questions which were previously asked in the same or a similar format on all of the IHS component surveys. For further information on the LCF questionnaire, see Volume A of the LCF 2008 User Guide, held with SN 6385. Further information about the LCF, including links to published reports based on the survey, may be found by searching for 'Living Costs and Food Survey' on the ONS website. Further information on the NFS and Living Costs and Food Module of the IHS can be found by searching for 'Family Food' on the GOV.UK website.

History:
The LCF (then EFS) was the result of more than two years' development work to bring together the FES and NFS; both survey series were well-established and important sources of information for government and the wider community, and had charted changes and patterns in spending and food consumption since the 1950s. Whilst the NFS and FES series are now finished, users should note that previous data from both series are still available from the UK Data Archive, under GNs 33071 (NFS) and 33057 (FES).

Purpose of the LCF
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has overall project management and financial responsibility for the LCF, while the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) sponsors the food data element. As with the FES and NFS, the LCF continues to be primarily used to provide information for the Retail Prices Index, National Accounts estimates of household expenditure, analysis of the effect of taxes and benefits, and trends in nutrition. The results are multi-purpose, however, providing an invaluable supply of economic and social data. The merger of the two surveys also brings benefits for users, as a single survey on food expenditure removes the difficulties of reconciling data from two sources.

Design and methodology The design of the LCF is based on the old FES, although the use of new processing software by the data creators has resulted in a dataset which differs from the previous structure. The most significant change in terms of reporting expenditure, however, is the introduction of the European Standard Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP), in place of the codes previously used. An additional level of hierarchy has been developed to improve the mapping to the previous codes. The LCF was conducted on a financial year basis from 2001, then moved to a calendar year basis from January 2006 (to complement the IHS) until 2015-16, when the financial year survey was reinstated at the request of users. Therefore, whilst SN 5688 covers April 2005 - March 2006, SN 5986 covers January-December 2006. Subsequent years cover January-December until 2014. SN 8210 returns to the financial year survey and currently covers April 2015 - March 2016.

Northern Ireland sample
Users should note that, due to funding constraints, from January 2010 the Northern Ireland (NI) sample used for the LCF was reduced to a sample proportionate to the NI population relative to the UK.

Family Food database:
'Family Food' is an annual publication which provides detailed statistical information on purchased quantities, expenditure and nutrient intakes derived from both household and eating out food and drink. Data is collected for a sample of households in the United Kingdom using self-reported diaries of all purchases, including food eaten out, over a two week period. Where possible quantities are recorded in the diaries but otherwise estimated. Energy and nutrient intakes are calculated using standard nutrient composition data for each of some 500 types of food. Current estimates are based on data collected in the Family Food...

This statistic depicts the factors which are important in deciding where to eat out in England in 2020. Of respondents, 72 percent said that the most important factor, determining where they choose to eat out, is the cleanliness and hygiene of the restaurant.

In the UK eating out and drinking sector in April 2020, a total of 81 percent of business leaders had already started recovery planning for various scenarios. Others were waiting for more information, or said they do not have the capactiy to plan for recovery yet. Only one percent of respondents did not have any recovery plans at the time.

Almost half of respondents in Great Britain who had dined out using the "Eat Out to Help Out" scheme intended to keep up their eating out frequency after program had ended, as of August 2020. About 29 percent of respondents among the general population did not plan to dine out at all.

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic caused the United Kingdom's (UK) restaurant industry to take a huge hit. Due to measures of social distancing and general caution in public places, consumers were forced to dine out less. According to the source, the year-over-year change of seated diners in restaurants in the UK, compared to 2019, was 19.50 percent on August 1, 2022.

After the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown measures are lifted, the leaders of the eating and drinking out sector in the United Kingdom planned to increase hygiene and social distancing measures on the premises of their businesses. Some leaders also planned to reduce menu variety.

In 2022/23, the average weekly expenditure per person per week on food and drink consumed outside the home in the United Kingdom stood at 10.06 British pounds. While this was an increase over the previous year, it remained below the levels recorded before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, when spending exceeded 15 British pounds per person.

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Optimism of business owners for their own business in the eating and drinking out sector in the United Kingdom reached a peak of 83 percent in February 2020, its highest level since the time of the EU referendum four years earlier. However, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic contributed to another large drop in industry leaders' optimism for both the general market and own businesses, with values as low as 5 and 15 percent respectively in April 2020.

The global plant-based food market size is predicted to expand by 3x, witnessing an increase from US$ 11.3 billion in 2023 to US$ 35.9 billion by 2033. Overall plant-based food sales are poised to surge at a stupendous CAGR of 12.2% between 2023 and 2033.

Attribute	Key Insights
Plant-based Food Market Estimated Value (2023)	US$ 11.3 billion
Projected Market Value (2033)	US$ 35.9 billion
Value-based CAGR (2023 to 2033)	12.2%
Top 3 Countries Market Share	31.3%

Scope of the Report

Attribute	Details
Estimated Market Size (2023)	US$ 11.3 billion
Projected Market Size (2033)	US$ 35.9 billion
Anticipated Growth Rate (2023 to 2033)	12.2% CAGR
Forecast Period	2023 to 2033
Historical Data Available for	2018 to 2022
Market Analysis	US$ million for Value and Metric Ton for Volume
Key Regions Covered	North America, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Oceania, and Middle East & Africa
Key Countries Covered	United States of America, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Nordic, Russia, Poland, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, GCC countries, North Africa, South Africa, others.
Key Segments Covered	Type, Source, Distribution Channels, & Region
Key Companies Profiled	Amy's Kitchen Danone S.A. Atlantic Natural Foods LLC Profiled Beyond Meat Inc Garden Protein International Inc Impossible Foods Inc Lightlife Foods Inc (Maple Leaf Foods Inc.) Nestle S.A. Tyson Foods Inc Vbite Food Ltd
Report Coverage	Market Forecast, Company Share Analysis, Competition Intelligence, DROT Analysis, Market Dynamics and Challenges, and Strategic Growth Initiatives

In October 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, people who were dining out in Great Britain rarely ordered their food at the counter. Of those surveyed who had dined out in restaurants, bars, pubs or cafes in the lsat week, only around 30 percent had ordered at the counter to varying degrees. Many bars and restaurants only serve at the table to ensure distancing measures can be maintained.