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Eating out might be devouring your food budget – and you probably have no idea

  • Written by Amit Sharma, Professor, Hospitality Finance, Director, Food Decisions Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
imageDiners eat at Katz's Delicatessen in New York, New York.Seth Wenig/AP Photo

If you were to guess how much you spend on eating out per month, chances are you’ll miss the mark by a quite a bit.

In a recent study, I found that adults tend to underestimate how much they spend on eating out by more than twice what they’re actually spending.

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