RebDoniel: I see what you’re saying, but I think it depends on the individual. For some people going to restaurants is a big part of their lives, so if they’re making the transition to becoming Orthodox, or if they’re Orthodox-but-not-totally-committed-to-100%-observance, then it can be a big struggle for some people (even if other issues are relevant to larger numbers of people). For other people, they’re content with hechshered foods from the grocery store and they don’t mind eating out.
One of the biggest challenges nowadays, I think, is the problem of how to attract larger numbers of non-Orthodox Jews to Orthodoxy, at a time of a lot of negative publicity and loosening moral standards. Orthodox Jews need to make a big effort to project a better image, and do more effective outreach, in order to make larger-scale teshuvah more likely. Some of R’ Alderstein’s recent essays on Cross Currents (the ones in response to the Pew study) are a good step in this direction, I think.