Eat out and Eat at Home

Introduction

 In university of Leeds, there are many international students from Japan, China, Kuwait and many countries. When we talked about Eating out in own country, we found that there were many differences between Kuwait and Japan. In japan, students hardly go to restaurants, they prefer to go to Izakaya, Japanese styles pub, but in Kuwait, they go to restaurants with friends or family every weekend. And then, how do British or international students from some countries eat meals. Eating is the most important factor to live healthily and we cannot live without eating. For the reasons, we focus on this topic. In this report, we will compare to some surveys of developing a tendency to eating habits.

 Methodology

 We did a survey that “Eating out or Eating at home” for 32 people, including youngers, elders, students and so on, on 28th October Wednesday at Trinity mall from 3pm to 5pm. After the survey, we analyzed the data and made a presentation.

 Research results

 We had 6 questions on this survey.

 Firstly, we asked people that how often do you eat out? . 7 people answered twice or 3 times in a week or 5 times or more in a week and they are majority answers. A few people answered twice, 3 times or less in a month.

Secondly, we asked that which do you prefer, Eating out or Eating at home and why. In our survey, 18 people answered Eating at home, and the reasons why they prefer to eat at home are that it is cheaper and more delicious than eating out, whenever we can eat and we enjoy cooking. But also 14 people prefer to eat out and they answered that because they don’t need to cook, they cannot cook and it is more sociality than eating at home. We also asked that what kind of restaurants do people like. The majority answer is Italian, 11 people answered that. People also prefer bakery, fast foods and café. Especially, Youngers and students are attend to like them. In addition, many people answered that they like to eat their traditional countries food, for example, a student from Thailand answered Thai restaurants as well some international students. It is a minority opinion but it indicates that people really like to eat their traditional foods. Additionally, it shows that as you kwon, in Leeds, there are large numbers of kinds restaurant. So some international students prefer to eat their traditional dishes at restaurants.

Next, we asked that how do people choose restaurants. We gave 5 choices including Taste, Cost, Location, Atmosphere and Service. In our survey, most answers are Taste and Cost. About ◎ percent of people chose them. It seems that majority people care about the eating cost and also taste.

 In addition, we asked that how much do you spend on eating out. As you know, majority people need cheap price and taste. The answer was based on former one. 16 people answer £11-20 at once. In our data, a person who eats out many times in a week dose not spend much money on eating out at once. He prefers to eat cheap dishes, fast food and bakery. On the other hand, a person who is elder and has a family hardly eats out to restaurants but when he or she eats out, a person always spends more money than a person who prefers to eat out.