prices have more than doubled even at fast food chains.
McDonalds is nearly 20 buck for a few hamburgers, fries, and a drink
the huge hike in min wage in Cali aggravates the problem here. i dare not venture into MCD’s to price a chocolate milkshake which used to be my reward after surviving a bad day. i pop a thin mint instead.
I know it would be bad for the economy but if McDs did a header tomorrow I’d get drunk for joy.
It’s hard to afford Red Lobster when you’re budgeting for your rice and beans.
Maybe they should switch to serving bugs, I hear the Cicadas are having a banner year.
The reality is that the middle and lower classes have been squeezed financially for years now.
Much of the restaurant business is among the fluffiest of service businesses: Not only would consumers be better off in both health and wealth by simply cooking more at home, but we’d be a stronger country if more investment went into industrial productivity instead.
I’m looking at the costs of eating out and it really adds up.
While I can afford it, I’m cutting back because the. Juice is not worth the squeeze
Let’s go Brandon!
Let’s go Democrats!
Red Lobster closing quite a few restaurants according to a tread today. Workers didn’t know until they went in to work.
If we get rid of most of them, it'll be healthy.
The lobsters are demanding more pay.
we are on a fixed income....we can go out to eat, but we've cut back a lot...one, we have a ton of food in our freezers, and two, we just can't see throwing so much money for restaurant food.
Someone showed a pic of their McDonald’s burger on X..it was as “thick” as a CD.
Mrs. M and I eat out 2x/week when in Mesa, AZ. We choose Chipotle or SmashBurger, as both are affordable and both provide at least 2 meals, perhaps 3, per $10 entree. We take it home, make our own fries, serve our own tortilla chips, get our drinks out of the fridge, etc.
We invariably buy the meals with gift cards (discounted 10%), earned by using certain credit cards, so in essence the meals are bought with kickbacks from big banks. It feels pretty good to eat on their dime. We leave a $3-$5 tip in the tip jar because we can, and it’s the right thing to do.
Mother’s Day Brunch at our local Hilton Hotel was $95 per person. Over $100 with Tax and tip for Bacon and Eggs with cheap champagne.
Last night, local pizza restaurant, one drink small pizza for 2, with tax and tip, $65. That used to be less than $40.
I’d like to see a map of the closures similar to the map of the most violent cities yesterday.
I’ll guess like the violent crime one yesterday, that most are in the blue states experiencing the mass exodus.
Heaven forbid if people actually cook meals at home.
One or two excellent local eateries have closed near us. Darn shame. And we are in business friendly Florida. I cannot imagine trying to make it in a Demon Rat state.