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Senior Citizens Prefer American Food More Than Other
Adults When Eating Out
Matures 3-to-1 more likely to choose
French food, cool to Japanese
 Oct. 19, 2007 - When senior citizens, or Matures,
as Harris Interactive calls them, go out to eat they want American food.
Harris found, in fact, thisis the favorite food for most American
adults, but no age group is as adamant about their meat and potatoes as
are the oldest Americans.
Over one-quarter (28%) of U.S. adults say American
food is what they are most likely to choose if they had the choice to go
out to a restaurant and eat one type of food, but senior citizens are
much more adamant. For Matures (those aged 62 and older), American is
tops as two in five (41%) say it is the food they are most likely to
choose.
Both Baby Boomers (aged 43-61) and Generation Xers
(aged 31-42) also keep American food as their top choice (28% and 25%)
respectively.
But for Baby Boomers, Chinese moves into third
place as almost one in five (19%) say it is the type of food they are
most likely to choose.
For Gen Xers, Mexican becomes their second choice
as one-quarter (24%) would choose this type of cuisine.
The youngest group, Echo Boomers (aged 18 30)
have a different top choice as 23 percent of this age group would choose
Italian food followed by one in five (21%) who say American food.
Matures agree with the average of all adults that
Italian is second choice, but these older Americans are not nearly so
hot on other foreign foods, except for French. The Matures were
three-to-one more likely than others to choose French food when eating
out.
Another big difference with younger eaters is the
choice of Japanese food seniors dont like it. Or, could it be a hang
over from those who old enough to remember Pearl Harbor?
These are some of the findings of a Harris Poll of
2,392 adults surveyed online between September 11 and 18, 2007 by Harris
Interactive.
"Thinking of food now,
if you had the choice to go out to a restaurant and eat one type of
food, which of these are you most likely to choose?"
|
Food
Choices |
ALL |
Generation |
Diff
Matures
versus
All Other |
|
Echo
Boomers
(18-30) |
Gen
Xers
(31-42) |
Baby
Boomers
(43-61) |
Matures
(62+)
|
|
% |
% |
% |
% |
% |
|
|
American |
28 |
21 |
25 |
28 |
41 |
13 |
|
Italian |
22 |
23 |
18 |
24 |
22 |
0 |
|
Mexican |
17 |
17 |
24 |
16 |
14 |
-3 |
|
Chinese |
16 |
18 |
12 |
19 |
13 |
-3 |
|
Japanese |
7 |
12 |
9 |
5 |
3 |
-4 |
|
Indian |
2 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
-1 |
|
French |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
Middle-Eastern |
1 |
1 |
* |
2 |
1 |
0 |
|
Other |
4 |
3 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
-2 |
|
None of these |
1 |
2 |
1 |
* |
* |
* |
Base: All Adults.
Note: Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding
Note: * = less than 0.5%
>>
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