According to figures provided by the cabinet-level Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, in 1983 the average Taiwan household spent NT $ 6,000 on eating out, and by 1989 this had risen to NT $ 14,500.
根據行政院主計處統計，民國七十二年時，每戶每年在外伙食費為新台幣六千元，七十八年時已提高至一萬四千五百元。