Answer: Chick-fil-A

Questions:

• What do you think makes a restaurant popular among teens? Name at least three factors. 
• What is your favorite restaurant? 
• Food is considered the number one spending priority for males and #2 for females. How much do you think YOU spend on food (snacks, drinks, meals) every month?
• How much of your monthly food spend would you call a "need" vs. a "want?"

Here's the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom.

Behind the numbers (Piper Jaffray Taking Stock Teen Survey Spring 2019):

"The Piper Jaffray Taking Stock With Teens® survey is a semi-annual research project that gathers input from thousands of teens with an average age of 16.3 years. Discretionary spending patterns, fashion trends, technology, and brand and media preferences are assessed through surveying a geographically diverse subset of high schools across the U.S. ...Food is the No. 1 priority for males in terms of wallet share & No. 2 for females; Chick-fil-A is the No. 1 restaurant for 3 surveys."

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Want to help your students understand how to shop for groceries? Check out our lesson on Budgeting for Food. 

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.