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Takeout Food Fixes Costing Connecticut Homes $4,000-Plus Yearly
Here's how much CT residents spend on Pizza delivery and other takeout items.
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CONNECTICUT — If you picked up a food delivery habit during the pandemic and never ditched it, you’re not alone. Connecticut residents, on overage, topped $4,000 annually on takeout and delivery, according to a recent study.
The study on takeout order habits is by Betway, an online gambling company, and its researcher used sports book chops and math know-how in an analysis of what people order most for takeout — pizza won by a mile, with Chinese food a distant second — and how much they spend.
The data dive shows we, in Connecticut, spend about $4,200 a year on takeout. Besides pizza and Chinese food, other go-to cuisines for takeout are, in order of preference, sushi, tacos, Mexican food, Indian food, ramen, salad, Italian food and burritos.
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Comparatively, neighboring Massachusetts averaged $4,221. Rhode Island $3,805 and New York $3,597.
The largest number of searches by city were in Atlanta; Miami; Baltimore; Minneapolis; Denver; Las Vegas; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, San Francisco and Boston.
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The states with the most searches for takeout per 1,000 people were, respectively, New York, Maryland, Colorado, Oregon, California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Illinois and Florida.
Conversely, the least number of searches were in Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, West Virginia, Mississippi, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Iowa and North Dakota, respectively.
The least number of searches were in El Paso, Texas, followed by Oklahoma City; Bakersfield, California; Fresno, California; Wichita, Kansas; Arlington, Texas; Mesa, Arizona; Fort Worth; Phoenix; and San Antonio.
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