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Americans spent more of their food budget dining out than on groceries in 2023 and 2024.

Despite rising menu prices, diners continue to eat at restaurants but expect higher quality and care.

Prix fixe menus, which offer multiple courses for a set price, have grown in popularity since the pandemic.

Several restaurants in the Louisville area offer prix fixe menus as a way to provide value to customers.

If you were to follow the tune of Spotify Wrapped and review your food budget from the last year or two, you wouldn’t be alone if dining out charted to the top category.

The share of food money “spent away from home,” as in at restaurants or takeout, marked an all-time high in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And that figure stayed steady in 20

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