Your memory has got me thinking. Eating out wasn't common in my childhood in the 1960s in the UK. My memories of sit-down meals at locations outside the house a

Your memory has got me thinking. Eating out wasn't common in my childhood in the 1960s in the UK. My memories of sit-down meals at locations outside the house are mainly the Christmas dinners that the Marconi Marine branch in Liverpool organised for employees, and the summer trips that sort of happened based at school (double decker buses arrived, took us all out to somewhere like Blackpool or Loggerheads in Wales, and there was always a fish and chip sitdown when it was time to come back). And school dinners of course after around 1970 when I went to the big school which was further away. Things opened up a bit in the 1970s and 1980s. I think it is a reflection of growing real disposable income, more restaurants and the cheaper chains opening.