Word: balzer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kitchen seems increasingly a place to pursue cooking as a hobby, not a daily grind. In 1987, 43% of all meals included at least one item made from scratch; in 1997, that dropped to 38%. "There has been a revolution forever to find someone else to cook," says Harry Balzer, vice president of the NPD Group. "We want to eat at home; we just want someone else to do the cooking. That is now the home-meal replacement...
...home to be eaten. According to the National Restaurant Association, this year the entire industry is growing at a modest 3% clip, while takeout is expanding at more than twice that, at 7%. "The restaurant has become a prepared supermarket," says the NPD Group's Balzer...