Valentines Day Dining and Restaurant Reservation Trend

Valentine's Day Dining and Restaurant Resérvation Trends PLANNING AND SPENDING VALENTINE'S DAY FUN FACTS 35% of diners find 53% of OpenTable Italian diners say they plan to make Valentine's Day cuisine to be most romantic Valentine's Day dining choice, followed by 25% reservations more than a week in advance 93% of Valentine's Day diners intend of diners who believe French cusine to match last year's spending or step it up a notch is the most romantic .no real surprise there! 64% Roerved of diners are set to spend more than $100 this Valentine's Day 3 out of 4 11, II 26% diners said that if there 47% February is a food or drink that of diners plan to celebrate Valentine's Day on Tuesday, February 14 14 of diners plan to celebrate Valentine's Day on Saturday, February 11 puts them in the mood, it's wine or champagne 13%, 19 At chocolate comes in 76% a distant third Only 1 in 462 of diners said they have or would happily dine out with friends on this traditionally couples date night say that an evening without a date would keep them at home on Valentine's Day CELEBRITY DREAM DATE GIFT GIVING 29% of male diners 44% 86% of female diners of diners do not typically exchange Valentine's Day gifts at the table selected Angelina Jolie as their Valentine's Day selected George Clooney as their Valentine's Day dream date followed by... dream date followed closely by... 22%. 24% of female 20% of male of male diners went a step further revealing they find a mealtime gift exchange to be obnoxious, compared with diners who diners who selected selected Ryan Gosling as their Valentine's Day Zooey Deschanel as their Valentine's Day dream date 13% of female diners who think a Valentine's Day mealtime gift exchange is inappropriate dream date OpenTable Source: Data based on an OpenTable survey of more than 3,000 registered diners in January 2012.