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Originally Posted by BerryBaby  ...Restaurants are really suffering because of the high gas prices. People have to cut somewhere and going out to dinner seems to be what they are cutting. I feel for the restaurant owners/workers. |
BB,
When I started doing cooking classes at Williams-Sonoma, we expected a class of 8 to 10, lasting 1 hour.
When the first class started, 6 months ago, we had 37 people sign up and had to break the class into 2 one hour classes, separated by 1 hour.
Now we have 2 sessions scheduled for each class and get 15 to 20 in each.
I see that people are looking for new recipes to cook at home and that reflects somewhat on what you are saying.
There is quite a bit of dialog during and after the classes about ingredient changes and cooking variations, so I know they people are thinking very directly about doing this stuff at home. I've had several inquiries about doing dinner parties too. That is all business that might have gone to restaurants.