With respect. You sound like a boomer.  I eat out all the time precisely because I can't cook decent food in the small shitty kitchen at my slum apt.  I can't afford all the equipment to cook good food.  My apt is such a nasty place, it kills my appetite to be inside.  Also I have to move so often for jobs and evictions all that kitchen junk is just one more heavy box the lug around.  At least I can or could go out to a cafe or cafeteria and eat lovely healthy tasty food in fresh air or a clean counter.  I know lots of young ppl who do the same.  The dining boom is a second order effect of the housing crisis.  (Unless you live in a boomer mcmasion with granite countertops)