This is not a futuristic future we are moving towards, more a gentle development towards change and an expression of individuality.

Social trends have pointed towards smaller families and increases in single person households, and dining-in patterns are a reflection of these social changes. Dining at home is at one point more casual: a Japanese take-way meal at home in front of the television, dvd screen, or at the home office desk while continuing to work; or it might be a dinner for ten with quality take home meals served to restaurant standards.