abstract consumer spending at full service and fast food restaurants will continue to grow over the remainder of this decade next however larger increase is predicted occur simulations assuming modest growth in household income plus expected demographic developments show that per capita could rise by 18 percent 6 for between 2000 2020 assumed alone causes such almost 15 7 respectively increasing proportion households containing a single person or multiple adults without live home children cause another 1 2 each these segments aging population decrease on about cent keywords acknowledgments authors thank mark denbaly nicole ballenger their assistance preparing report review comments earlier drafts we also oral capps jr john park chung huang wen chern geoffrey paulin thanks too