New Year’s dinner and after-dinner is characterized in our country by culinary excess and, increasingly, by home food orders the next day, with an increase of 27% in the New Year’s Eve of this 2022 which ends or is finished , depending on when you read this article.
According to the data of the exhaustive study on food delivery trends conducted every year by Just Eat, the tenth edition of the Gastrómetro, January 1st established itself among the Spaniards as one of the most important events on the calendar delivery among the Spaniards who don’t want to cook.
But, above all, the greatest volume of orders occurs when the effects of the surplus on the last night of the year begin to disappear, with a concentration of food delivery orders between eight and ten in the evening, with 21:00 as peak demand.
In the chapter on the most requested specialties, the tastes of New Year’s customers do not vary from the trends that dominate the market during the rest of the year, with a ranking of orders dominated by American, Italian, Chinese, Turkish and Japanese cuisines.
However, going into detail on the most requested dishes on this hangover evening, the specialties of Chinese cuisine, with six positions among the ten most requested on New Year’s Eve. In order, the January 1 best sellers are spring rolls, three-decker rice, french fries, Chinese bun, hamburger, almond chicken, sweet and sour pork, chicken nuggets, and lemon chicken.
Although the pandemic caused a boom in orders linked to healthy eating in 2021, with a 50% increase in vegetarian specialties and 80% in the case of vegan ones, the Gastrometro shows that that day after the party, their percentage in the delivery it represents just 1.09% of the total.