Classing Up Take-out
What s cooking in American homes. Sometimes, not much. Americans buy an average of 202 meals per year at restaurants-that s nearly four nights a week. The eating-out-of-home trend goes one step further with large national restaurants offering to-go meals straight from their popular dine-in menus. Case in point: Take-out sales for Outback Steakhouse nearly doubled while those for Applebee s more than doubled. So with 34 percent of American adults considering take-out essential to their way of life, spending 25 percent of their income on out-of-home meals, why not make the take-out experience a little more special. Try these tips for getting more out of your meal: Set The Mood Try dressing up the meal by swapping plasticware and cardboard containers with real spoons and plates. Read: the kind you don t throw away. Or, if you...