U.S. employees spend $51 daily when they work full-time in office, study says

[Retrograde]

50. average spending, across the whole country

it includes brown-baggers as well as those who eat every meal out, and everyone in between.

Even though many companies here have free or subsidized cafeterias on site, I've learned not to try to go to any of the restaurants on Castro Street on Fridays, when it seems like all of Google is there! And there are times during the rest of the week when it's almost that bad. $15+ is a reasonable low-side-of average for lunches around here if you don't brown bag it. Mr. Retrograde and I go out for lunch once or twice a week, and I can report that prices have been creeping up since the end of Covid - the hole-in-the-wall pho place we like just raised its prices and it seems to have no problem getting customers.

Can't comment on costs of breakfasts, since I rarely go out for them