Consumption Stats

From the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council

In 2021 Americans spent more than than $vii.5 Billion on hot dogs and sausages in US Supermarkets.

Los Angeles residents eat more than hot dogs than any other city (about 30 one thousand thousand pounds), beating out New York and Dallas.

Chicago'south O'Hare International Airport consumes SIX times more hot dogs, 725,000 more than Los Angeles International Airport and LaGuardia Airport combined.

On Independence Twenty-four hours, Americans will enjoy 150 one thousand thousand hot dogs, plenty to stretch from D.C. to Fifty.A. more than v times.

During height hot dog season, from Memorial Twenty-four hour period to Labor Day, Americans typically consume 7 billion hot dogs. That'southward 818 hot dogs consumed every second during that menstruum.

Los Angeles Dodger fans consumed 2.7 million hot dogs in 2019. Across the major leagues, fans enjoyed xviii.3 one thousand thousand hot dogs during the 2019 season.

The Size and Telescopic of the U.Due south. Hot Dog Market

Supermarkets and school cafeterias, restaurants and concession stands hot dogs are served everywhere. And while it is difficult to offering a unmarried precise reply as to the number of hot dogs sold and consumed each year, 1 thing is for certain: the market place is more than than a foot long.

The following information is comprised of retail scanner data at supermarkets and grocery stores and past estimates as to the number of hot dogs sold at places where barcodes are non used, such as corner stores, sporting events, carnivals, fairs and restaurants.

Retail Sales

Retail sales in major markets are collected when products are scanned at the checkout counter. Scanners read bar codes on uniform-weight products, like a package of ten to the pound branded wieners. The Nielsen Company records data of this kind.

According to data for the year 2020, 944.3 1000000 pounds of hot dogs were sold at retail stores. That number represents more than than $two.8 billion in retail sales.

Ballpark Consumption

Co-ordinate to the Quango's 2020 survey of hot domestic dog and sausage consumption at major league ballparks in the U.s.a., ballparks sold 19.4 million hot dogs this season. The baseball game fans love of the hot dog is why all top ten hot dog consuming cities host MLB teams. This information is based on sales data for the previous year and expected omnipresence for the upcoming season.

Trends and Facts

Sales of hot dogs remain strong throughout the United States. Sales remained relatively steady at the retail level, and other venues continue to mail high sales as well, including airports, restaurants and ballparks.

Driving sales is the popularity of high protein foods and interest in natural and organic products. New products available are more often than not brand favorites reformulated with a reduced fatty content or increased poly peptide content. New products in flavors such as dearest and brown sugar, barbeque, Cajun, spicy and teriyaki have hitting the marketplace in the last few years. According to consumer enquiry, convenient packaging, preparation and usage information are high priorities.

Consumers with larger households made upward of older children in the Midwest and south continue to be the highest consumers of refrigerated packaged meat products. Sixty pct, generally older consumers, of people surveyed said they preferred all beef hot dogs. Younger consumers preferred other products such as pork and chicken.

The vast majority of hot dogs are of the skinless variety, cooked within a cellulose casing that is removed prior to packaging. Some hot dogs are produced in natural casings that are non removed, these feature the feature "snap" that many people enjoy. Near hot dogs are sold eight to a pound. Approximately 35 percent are offered in ten to the pound packages.

While the hot domestic dog is a popular entree across the country, consumption does vary past region. According to sales information for 2020, New Yorkers spent more money on hot dogs in retail stores ($133.6 meg) than any other market in the land. Residents of Los Angeles came in 2d with $94.half-dozen million spent on hot dogs.

The summer months between Memorial Day and Labor Mean solar day continue to brand up the "hot canis familiaris season." Hot dog producers estimate that an average of 38 percent or $614 meg of the total number of hot dogs are sold during this time. Ten pct of annual retail hot dog sales occur during July, which is designated as National Hot Dog Month.

Experts believe sales of the entire refrigerated processed meat category will continue to grow in the hereafter.

Sources: The Nielsen Company

The Size and Scope of the U.South. Sausage Market

Sausages are enjoying unprecedented sales in the United states of america, every bit new flavors, convenient products and many great tasting old standards accept enjoyed steady category growth.

Retail sales of sausages in major markets are collected by aggregating products scanned at the checkout counter or through scanner wands used in some households. Scanners read bar codes on uniform-weight products, like a packet of ten to the pound branded wieners. The numbers are tracked by reporting companies. Scan data collected in homes is projected across the population. However, many sausage products are sold as "random weight" items, meaning retail packages are not of uniform weight and often not tracked by scanners.

Dinner Sausage

According to figures for 2020, dinner sausage sales were nigh i.27 billion pounds, a 14.ix pct increase over 2019 with dollars spent exceeding $4.eight billion. Breakfast sausage sales comprised more than 361.v meg pounds and $1.46 billion in sales upward 15.5 percentage from 2019.

When information technology comes to sausage at ballparks, the San Francisco Giants were the sausage kings in 2019 with 450,000. The Giants are followed by Chicago Cubs with 400,000 and the Boston Red Sox with 327,500. Overall, fans consumed nearly four meg sausages in 2019.

Unfortunately, there is a limited amount of data available about the sales of sausage in other foodservice outlets. Yet, foodservice sales of breakfast and dinner sausages are substantial.

Source: Refrigerated dinner sausage and breakfast sausage figures based on data nerveless during the calendar year of 2020, past The Nielson Company

Demographics

Dinner sausage consumption is adequately uniform throughout various income levels, while lower income families swallow the almost breakfast sausage.

Larger families eat the most breakfast and dinner sausage, every bit do younger families, with sausage consumption leveling off considerably for senior citizens.

New York led the way in sales of dinner sausage with dollar sales of $148.3 million. Los Angeles and Chicago were the second and third largest markets with sales of $140.8 million and $110.6 1000000, respectively.

Sausage consumption also varies by flavor. Dinner sausage sales reportedly meridian during the summertime months, with dollar sales accounting for near i-third of annual sales. Breakfast sausage sales peak during holiday months from Nov through Jan.