PEOPLE THESE DAYS-----

Not everybody has the time or energy to cook at home everyday, if they can afford to eat out it's their choice and their money,,me personally,i have gotten to the point that i stopped going to places like McDonald's for breakfast,the prices have gone thru the roof,it's not that i can't afford it, but refuse too.

Cooking takes a little practice but food always tastes when someone else does the preparing, the cooking and the cleaning up after.
I can cook , some like it, some don’t . For the fussy ones it’s simple, cook it yourself.

Fast food is convenient with a lot less hassle.

There are a couple painfully obvious reasons. The first being convenience. People would rather grab something on the way home from work than go home and prepare a meal.
I think the pandemic also has people itching to do things that they couldn't do before. Eating out is one of those things.

There's plenty of simple meals you can make at home that aren't even very time consuming.

Convenience/fast food isn't even all that good!
It serves the purpose of fooling your stomach into believing it got the real deal! lol
People working all day just don't want to be cooking when they get home... for the most part.

I definitely prefer even a very simple home cooked meal.

I have no choice. Everything I eat I make myself now.

Yet when I could afford it, I went out just for the social experience not that I couldn't cook for myself. Could cook for a dozen, yet no one wants to come here good food or bad.

From time time it's nice and the portions are so big that I can eat leftovers on another day too. There's no way I could make kebab at home. But damn, eating out every day would be pretty expensive, unhealthy, not even worth the money and probably would get old for me way too soon.
Also cooking at home has many different levels too. You don't need to do everything from scratch. Sometimes it can be even "homemade fast food".

I am not included in this list.
I have been cooking ever since I was 18.
So cooking has never been a problem to me.

Sometimes it’s just lazyness 😁

I hate eating out. I’d prefer to stay in and have something healthy.

Id rather cook my own meals to there's no way you can trust where some pimply headed teenagers hands have been.

Nice to eat out on occasion . I'm a big eater , so i would go broke there . Love to cook and bake . Ingredients are the problem on some parts . If not used it goes to waste . Find an older cook book or check recipes on net . You can do it 🌻

convenience

You answered yourself?

I grab fast food once every two or three months. But I do have to admit that when I am tired, which is almost every day at one point or another in the day, I REALLY don't want to cook.

sadly it boils down to two things too convienient and laziness [sledgehammer]

I need to learn how to cook. 🥺

People are just busy often leaving home early and getting in late. It takes time to cook, shop,clean

That’s just it, though—some people are terrible cooks and a home-cooked meal from them may not taste better.
I can cook pretty well, but sometimes I’m just tired. I prepare a lot of salads, which are healthy, but can take labor-intensive prep work.

It's their body let them eat whatever they want. They know it's not good for them.