{"id":72127,"date":"2015-02-11T10:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=72127"},"modified":"2015-02-11T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:56:10","slug":"where-sa-gamers-like-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/72127-where-sa-gamers-like-to-eat","title":{"rendered":"Where SA gamers like to eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re trying to get a full weekend\u2019s gaming in (at a LAN or, you know, just because) there\u2019s barely time to take a break to make some coffee, let alone cook.<\/p>\n<p>This then raises the question: what is the food of the elite gamer (or at least the majority of gamers)?<\/p>\n<p>Our survey of favourite fast food places and restaurants received 406 responses, and yielded two clear winners.<\/p>\n<p>KFC is the most popular fast food place by far with over 16% of the votes, while Spur is the most popular sit-down restaurant with over 20% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>The table below shows the top 5 fast food places and restaurants chosen by survey respondents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MyGaming-restaurant-and-fast-food-survey-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72129\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/MyGaming-restaurant-and-fast-food-survey-winners.jpg\" alt=\"MyGaming restaurant and fast food survey winners\" width=\"600\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #002440; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Fast food<\/th>\n<th>Restaurants<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>KFC (16.15%)<\/td>\n<td>Spur (20.78%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Burger King (9.78%)<\/td>\n<td>Nando&#8217;s (9.05%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Nando&#8217;s (9.54%)<\/td>\n<td>Ocean Basket (7.33%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>McDonald&#8217;s (9.05%)<\/td>\n<td>Wimpy (6.11%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Roman&#8217;s Pizza (8.80%)<\/td>\n<td>Col&#8217;Cacchio (5.62%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">A word on demographics<\/h3>\n<p>The average MyGaming survey respondent is typically male, in their late twenties, earns between R10,000 and R30,000 per month, lives in one of South Africa\u2019s major urban areas, and mainly games on PC.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on gaming lifestyle in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/99792-south-african-gamers-fast-food-alcohol-and-sex.html\"><strong>South African gamers: fast food, alcohol, and sex<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71719-sas-fattiest-fast-food-meals.html\"><strong>SA\u2019s fattiest fast food meals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/71977-you-will-not-be-playing-these-games-in-2015.html\"><strong>You will not be playing these games in 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71806-which-mass-effect-race-are-you.html\"><strong>Which Mass Effect race are you?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the MyGaming fast food and restaurant survey are in \u2014\u00a0this is where respondents like to grab some chow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":63601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13217,21,13271,12141,13269,13273],"class_list":["post-72127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-fast-food","tag-headline","tag-kfc","tag-mygaming-lifestyle-survey","tag-restaurants","tag-spur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72150,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72127\/revisions\/72150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}