Dinner together is becoming a thing of the past. Poles prefer to eat out

In other European countries and in the USA, significantly more people than in Poland prefer to eat meals with their family members. The number of people who prefer to eat with their loved ones is decreasing in the youngest age groups - we read in Friday's edition of "Rzeczpospolita".

"More and more Polish consumers are giving up cooking at home in favor of solutions such as takeaway or delivery," according to a report by Bain & Company, which the daily cites.

As the newspaper writes, research conducted in European countries and the United States shows that the French are the most likely to sit down to dinner together every day – as many as 61% of the surveyed residents of the country on the Loire do so. In Italy, it is 56%, and in the United States, this number drops to 33% of respondents.

The article states that Poland comes out worst among the surveyed countries, with only 27% of us sitting down to dinner together every day.

"Shared meals play an important cultural role, they are not only an element of daily routine, but also a way of building bonds and cultivating family traditions. In countries such as France or Italy, the ritual of eating together has strong historical roots and is still considered one of the pillars of family life," says Patryk Rudnicki, managing partner of the Warsaw office of Bain & Company, quoted by "Rz".

He adds that "in Poland, however, we are observing a gradual weakening of this custom: we eat together less and less often, more and more often on the run or separately." (PAP)

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