Mark Simone, giving you the New York Advantage on 710 WOR.

Hey, we'll get to the campaign. We'll get to the debate.

You got 61 days until the election. You only got six days until the debate. You got 18 days of summer left.

Now, remember, it's Wednesday. It feels like Tuesday, but it's a four-day

week. It's Wednesday. So, what time do you have dinner? It's getting earlier for a lot of people.

Restaurants, like the peak was 8 o'clock. That was the most booked time. Eight o'clock.

It's now between 6 and 7. Everybody's eating earlier. Six o'clock. It's now between 6 and 7.

Everybody's eating earlier.

6 o'clock is the new 8 o'clock.

Everybody now eating at 6 o'clock, not 8 o'clock, especially in restaurants.

They're packed 6 to 7.

By 8, it's now lightening up.

A lot of this was from the pandemic.

The reason you'd have dinner at 8 o'clock is after work, everybody wanted to go home first, change, do whatever they had to do, and then you go out.

Well, during the pandemic, for a year, everybody was working from home.

So at 5 o'clock, when work was over, you're home, you're ready to go out. You want to get

out as soon as you can. So everybody started eating earlier and earlier and earlier. Now, there's

another trend going on at the same time. I have no idea what started this. A lot of mothers

feeding their kids at 4.30, making them dinner at 4.30. Apparently, it's a big

trend going on all over the place. There's all sorts of social media about it, and millions and

millions have started to do this, I guess, because the earlier they eat, the easier it is to fall

asleep later. I don't know, something like that. Now, another trend, people eating alone in restaurants. Every so often, somebody eating alone, but now it's a big trend. More and more and more people. I do it once a week. I love that. It's the best meal of the week. Just be in a restaurant alone. Just eat alone. You don't have to talk to anybody you don don't have to listen to anybody. It's become a big trend bigger than ever. Now, I think one of the reasons is the

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