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This story of people no longer being able to afford restaurant people is 180 degrees at odds with the data from Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on meals at restaurants. According to data from the BEA (Line 236), real spending at restaurants was 11.0 percent higher in the first quarter of this year than in the fourth quarter of 2019, the last quarter before the pandemic hit. Real spending at fast food restaurants (Line 242) increased even more rapidly, rising by 11.8 percent.

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