Five o’clock dinner crowd: why are young Americans eating so early?

Gen Z and millennials’ dinner reservations are reportedly inching earlier as they take advantage of happy hour deals

The girls’ trip was perfect: Samantha Stobo and her best friend spent two weeks in Italy drinking wine, suntanning, driving a convertible down the coast of Puglia. But there was one part of la dolce vita the 32-year-old never warmed up to: long, late, lazy dinners that rarely began before 8pm and stretched well past 10.

“I am such an early eater,” Stobo said. Back home in Miami, her “ideal dinner time” is 5.30; she simply “can’t wait” much later.

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