COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating: Seven Takeaways from New Report
The Hartman Group’s COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating report picks up where an earlier analysis left off and highlights how eating and drinking behavior continues to be affected by the pandemic by diving into the who, what, when, where, why, and how behind eating occasions. COVID-19’s Continued Impact on Eating finds that eating away from home has increased, but it is not back to pre-pandemic levels and yet, the use of restaurant food has resumed its routine presence in American eating. Among eating occasions, lunch has lost many of the dinner-like qualities that appeared in spring 2020 and snack occasions are helping friends connect outside of the home.