{"id":182033,"date":"2017-07-01T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=182033"},"modified":"2017-06-30T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T15:00:47","slug":"how-much-south-africans-spend-on-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/182033\/how-much-south-africans-spend-on-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"How much South Africans spend on takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A generation ago, eating out regularly was practically unheard of, but gone are the days of mom or dad decided to &#8220;splashing out&#8221;on a box of fish and chips.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a recent Nedbank franchising roadshow,\u00a0Linda Reid, chief commercial officer at Lightstone Explore noted that gone are the days of junk food being a &#8220;special treat&#8221;. Instead in many households, fast food has now become more of a staple than a spoil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africans spend close to <strong>R2 billion a month on fast food<\/strong>, which represents more than 10% of total discretionary spend,\u201d said Reid<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome households buy take-aways up to three times a week, while others might treat themselves once a month. <strong>It all depends on income level and proximity to a fast food outlet<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the interesting statistics found by the study include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are around 50 fast-food chain brands in South Africa, operating out of 5,800 brand outlets.<\/li>\n<li>90% of South African residents live within 5 km of at least one fast food outlet, and almost half of them have a fast food restaurant within 1 km of their homes.<\/li>\n<li>There is obviously a lot of variation, but <strong>households in the highest income brackets are likely to spend between R1,400 and R1,500 per month on takeaways<\/strong>. A typical family within those brackets will visit roughly twice a week and spend just over R200 each time.<\/li>\n<li>On the <strong>lower end of the income scale, families will usually visit less than once a month.\u00a0 Over the course of a year and their monthly spend will be around R10-R70 per month<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Households in the Johannesburg, Cape Town, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and eThekwini metros are the biggest spenders.<\/li>\n<li>The top 15 brands account for 80% of the stores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, these data aren\u2019t conveniently spread out in homogenous little pockets across the country,\u201d said Reid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we all know, South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world when it comes to income distribution. This means that in some areas there are a lot of people with a little to spend, while in other areas there are fewer people with a lot to spend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Fast-Food-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182037 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Fast-Food-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Fast-Food-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Fast-Food-2-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/173585\/the-biggest-fast-food-franchises-in-south-africa-in-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The biggest fast food franchises in South Africa in 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A generation ago, eating out regularly was practically unheard of, but gone are the days of mom or dad decided to &#8220;splashing out&#8221;on a box of fish and chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":78391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,12009],"class_list":["post-182033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-lightstone-explore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182033"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182973,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182033\/revisions\/182973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}