With Thanksgiving close approaching and inflation still high, a recent ABC News report showed 84% of Americans are looking to cut costs for their holiday meals.
Some are turning to fast food chains to fill that proverbial Thanksgiving cornucopia, in fact.
Casino.org took a deep dive into Google Trends by state to find which chains they’re turning to on Thanksgiving, and polled 2,000 people as to why.
Turns out, about 21.7% of the respondents confessed to being too lazy to make the meal themselves.
On a related note, 20.4% say they just don’t have the time to prep the meal themselves, while 17.8% don’t even partake in Thanksgiving.
For some it comes down to cost: 15.8% find it cheaper to buy take-out; 5.9% have plans to travel during the holiday, and can’t spend the day in the kitchen or around the dining room table.
That said, McDonald’s was the #1 Thanksgiving take-out order, according to 16 states, followed by Wendy’s in the second slot; Burger King ranked third, and KFC ended up in fourth place.
Rounding out the fifth slot was a smorgasbord of other chains in a tie:Bojangles, Popeyes and In-N-Out.
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.