Busy restau­rants and cafes are a common sight in Georgia, and CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer data suggest that restau­rants and cafés have become busier over the last five years. While 27% of Georgia’s pop­u­la­tion reported going to a restau­rant in 2012, five years later, 50% did. There is an upward trend for both men and women, yet the data also suggests there is a sig­nif­i­cant gender gap. Taking into account other social and demo­graph­ic char­ac­ter­is­tics, women are sig­nif­i­cant­ly less likely to go to restau­rants than men. [Read more…]