Between the 1970s and early 2000s, food-at-home costs and food-away-from-home prices increased at comparable charges. Since 2009, however, their rates of growth have diverged; while food-at-home prices deflated in 2016 and 2017, monthly food-away-from-home costs have been rising consistently since then. The divergence is partly because of variations between the prices of serving ready food […]