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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 11 MaltaToday Survey à la carte restaurants. Chinese and Turkish restaurants appear to be more popular than Maltese eateries. The popularity of pizzerias corresponds to the affordable range of the Maltese. In fact 42% say that they can only afford between €10 and €20 per person when they go to a restaurant while 6% afford less than €10. Piz- zas fit squarely within this price range. Only 13% can afford to spend more than €30 while 38% can afford between €20 and €30 – a range which may permit them to eat out at a Chinese restaurant. Fewer than 1% think that restaurants in Malta are cheap while 16% think they are too expensive. 23% think that restaurants in general give good value for money. But the majority (53%) think that this depends on the restaurant. Respondents were briefed that going out to eat at a restaurant means sitting in a place to eat for more than an hour. Methodology The survey was held between Monday 22 August and Thursday 26 August. A total of 501 people were contacted. The survey was stopped when a 400 quota sample was reached. Respondents were randomly selected from telephone directories. The results were weighed to reflect the age and gender balance of the population. The survey has a margin of error +/-4.9 percentage points. Legend AB Professionals and managers C1 Technical, clerical and vocational C2 Skilled Workers DE Unskilled workers and unemployed SE Self Employed FULL RESULTS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON MALTATODAY.COM.MT BY AGE BY OCCUPATION All 18-34 35-54 55+ AB C1 C2 DE SE Pizzeria 35.1% 38.2% 41.1% 25.4% 25% 36.2% 31.5% 28.1% 40% Pasta 14% 17.6% 14.7% 9.1% 5% 11.1% 11.2% 9.4% 20% Chinese 12.1% 20.6% 13.7% 2.7% 5% 6.1% 4.5% 9.4% 9.5% À la carte 10.9% 8.8% 8.4% 15.5% 15% 15.2% 12.4% 6.2% 12.5% Fish 8.7% 5.9% 10.5% 9.1% 10% 12.1% 6.7% 7.8% 12.5% Turkish 8.4% 14.7% 9.5% 0.9% 2.5% 4% 3.4% 7.8% 2.5% Steak house 8.1% 5.9% 11.6% 7.3% 7.5% 4% 9% 7.8% 17.5% Sushi 4.2% 8.8% 3.5% 0.9% 10% 1% 1.1% 0% 0% Maltese/rabbit 9% 8.8% 7.4% 10.7% 10% 7.1% 6.7% 14.1% 15% Indian 5.4% 11.8% 3.5% 0.9% 10% 0% 1.1% 3.1% 0% Hotel Buffet 4.4% 0 8.4% 4.7% 2.5% 5.1% 5.3% 2.3% 10% Other 1.2% 2.9% 1.1% 0 5% 0% 0% 1.6% 0% Restaurants frequented in past month The survey shows that pizzerias remain the favourite type of restaurant for the Maltese The most likely never to eat out at a restaurant are those aged over 55 years, 17% of whom never or rarely eat out while 33% eat out less than once a month