How about you? Decreasing your …

… number of times going to a restaurant per year?

If you find yourself eating out less often these days, you’re not alone.

The average American now eats at a restaurant only 74 times each year, the lowest reading in more than 30 years, according to data from market research from NPD group.

“People have been abandoning restaurants for quite some time,” said Harry Balzer, chief industry analyst and vice president of NPD group. “Eating out just isn’t as popular as it once was.”

Indeed, it’s not. The number of times the average American eats out has been falling almost every year since 1984, when NPD began tracking the metric.

That number — the avg American eats out 74x per year — surprised me.

But this number, the one that combines eating out and getting take-out, surprised far more:

But, as you can see above, the country’s appetite for take-out began to level off and has even fallen roughly 8 percent since 2007. As a result, the average American only eats food from or at a restaurant roughly 191 times per year, the smallest number since 1993, and more than 10 percent less than in 2000 when the average American ate or ordered out about 215 times.