How often do you dine out? For lunch? For dinner?

Eating out costs much more than eating in, so I seek to limit that to twice monthly. This weekend, for instance, is not one for eating out. I usually make it fit my calorie budget, but last weekend I deliberately did not.

I eat one meal out a week.
It is too expensive and takes too much time to go out to eat more often for me and my family. I like to cook. I'm good at meal planning.
I have always been able to find items that fit my calorie goal when I eat out. I look up nutritional info for places that have it. I plan in advance what I am going to get. I log as best I can. It is not really stressful to me.
If people are claiming they can't lose weight because they have to eat out often that is BS. Likely they would also give up watching their calorie intake cooking at home.

Including fast food and quick meals? Fairly often now a days. I find it difficult at restaurants (because I have to have the will power to eat a smaller portion) but pretty easy at fast food and quick serve restaurants.

-Half salad and cup of non creamy soup at paneras
-6 inch without too many condiments at subway
-crunchy tacos with black beans instead of meat and I make it fresco at Taco Bell
-most breakfast sandwiches on an English muffin without sausage/bacon is pretty low calorie
-thin n crispy crust at Pizza Hut

I could go on and on. I used to cook ALL of my meals. Since becoming vegetarian I cook almost none (I'm aware I'm in the minority here). I eat out a lot and lose consistently. I just find staples I know fit my calorie goals, try to get something relatively healthy (usually) and try to get snacks that fill in the gaps (I eat a lot of fruit/veggies/yogurts at home since fast food doesn't always load up the nutrients).

Sit down restaurants are WAY harder in a deficit bc they are not as consistent/reliable and so I do try to limit those. If I HAD to I would just customize my order (steak/fish without butter/oil, simple salad on the side, etc) anything to control the calorie content. Staff is usually very willing to accommodate if you're nice about it and acknowledge that you're being a pain....

I eat out once a month or less, unless traveling. We don't really have anything in our small town and I'm on a pretty strict budget.

For dinner, once or twice a week. It's part of my social life, usually before a play or the symphony, sometimes just with a group, occasionally (1-2x/month, not every week) for a work obligation. Nice restaurants, no calorie information available, I don't think it's worth it if the place doesn't have interesting or especially tasty food. I just try to eat reasonably while there and realize if I go out that often it is NOT an excuse to eat very indulgently. However, I do plan to have extra calories available because I tend to do longer workouts on a weekend anyway. I think of this as eating out a lot (and I consider myself a bit of a foodie), and it's similar to what I did before losing weight, but for me it's a non negotiable so I figured out how to make it work (by changing my mindset when eating out, mostly).

For lunch, ideally maybe once, but I sometimes do it twice. These are places near work as an alternative to the lunches I bring (quick serve or the like, places like Snap Kitchen, Protein Bar, Pret a Manger, a salad place, a mediterranean place, a poke place I'm currently into). Calories are generally available (they are at a lot of these types of places in Chicago). The food is really quite similar to what I would bring, as I still focus on having adequate protein, similar calories, and especially lots of vegetables, and the main drawback is that it's a silly waste of money to buy lunch rather than bring it, it's laziness. I do have one indulgent sandwich place that does my favorite sandwich I fit in occasionally -- good ham, gruyere, avocado, mango chutney, and jalapenos. It comes with either almonds or housemade chips. High cal compared to my normal lunch, but since I only eat three meals it's easy to adjust and have it fit in a day occasionally (not possible with my current macros, though, but that's okay since I'm good with having it rarely).

On my own accord? Rarely if ever. On my birthday, I go get the free food. Unfortunately, for the next two months, I'm required to go out to eat a minimum of 2-3 times a week, and pretty much everything on the menus are boring salads or what you've called "caloric nuclear bombs." I'd rather have neither...

We rarely eat out - perhaps once or twice a month. If we go out during the day, we'll probably go for coffee but not food.

Out, as in just eat at a restaurant, not that often. Maybe once every few months. Out as in being invited to someone else's house or getting together with friends and family for food, that's a bit more often every few weeks, but as often as daily during holidays and special events.

Eating out often has never been a habit. I eat out now just as often as I did 120 lbs ago and I find it relatively easy to manage even when it's nearly daily (sometimes more than once a day) during the holidays. I just eat at maintenance if necessary, exercise extra, eat light other meals (or don't eat at all), and only pick the 2-3 dishes I like the most and completely skip the ones that are "meh" (if it's a buffet style gathering). I also go for diet drinks. I don't usually make my choices based on calories, I choose based on preference because if I'm happy with the food I don't feel like these calories have been wasted. The only time I use calories to decide is if I'm not sure which dish I want more. In that case I go for the one that has, to my knowledge, more forgiving calories.