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Food & Beverage: Grocery, Restaurant & Price-Index Benchmarks
A free, platform-curated set of food and beverage benchmarks — Consumer Price Index food weights, total food expenditures, the away-from-home spending share and the farm share of the food dollar — compiled from Bureau of Labor Statistics and USDA Economic Research Service public data. Helps grocers, restaurants, investors and researchers frame prices and spending with widely published official figures.
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"unit": "percent of index",
"value": "about 13.4",
"period": "December 2023",
"indicator": "CPI-U relative importance, Food",
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{
"unit": "percent of index",
"value": "about 8.0",
"period": "December 2023",
"indicator": "CPI-U relative importance, Food at home",
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"unit": "percent of index",
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"indicator": "CPI-U relative importance, Food away from home",
"source_agency": "Bureau of Labor Statistics"
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"unit": "USD",
"value": "about 2.4 trillion",
"period": "2022",
"indicator": "Total U.S. food expenditures",
"source_agency": "USDA Economic Research Service"
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{
"unit": "percent",
"value": "about 55",
"period": "2022",
"indicator": "Food-away-from-home share of food spending",
"source_agency": "USDA Economic Research Service"
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"unit": "percent",
"value": "about 11",
"period": "2022",
"indicator": "Share of disposable income spent on food",
"source_agency": "USDA Economic Research Service"
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{
"unit": "cents per dollar",
"value": "about 15",
"period": "2022",
"indicator": "Farm share of the food dollar",
"source_agency": "USDA Economic Research Service"
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"unit": "USD per month",
"value": "about 975",
"period": "2023",
"indicator": "Thrifty Food Plan cost, family of four",
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"unit": "NAICS code",
"value": "311",
"period": "NAICS 2022",
"indicator": "Food manufacturing sector code",
"source_agency": "U.S. Census Bureau"
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"unit": "NAICS code",
"value": "312",
"period": "NAICS 2022",
"indicator": "Beverage and tobacco product manufacturing code",
"source_agency": "U.S. Census Bureau"
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{
"unit": "NAICS code",
"value": "445",
"period": "NAICS 2022",
"indicator": "Food and beverage retailers code",
"source_agency": "U.S. Census Bureau"
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"unit": "NAICS code",
"value": "722",
"period": "NAICS 2022",
"indicator": "Food services and drinking places code",
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"unit": "index",
"value": "PPI NAICS 311",
"period": "ongoing monthly",
"indicator": "Producer Price Index, food manufacturing",
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"url": "https://www.bls.gov/cpi",
"name": "Bureau of Labor Statistics — CPI"
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"url": "https://www.ers.usda.gov",
"name": "USDA Economic Research Service — Food Expenditure & Food Dollar Series"
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"category": "benchmarks",
"vertical": "food-beverage",
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