A lot of people can’t afford to eat out because of the cost, or travel in their car to even dine out along the way. I know I can’t. We have no Cracker Barrels near us. I live in the Mohawk Valley of NY State. The closest Cracker Barrel is over an hour away, north of here. When I visit my niece this summer in Cape Vincent, I will have to check to see if that one is still open, or if the one outside of Watertown is still there.
Hitting “the diner” for breakfast at totally random intervals has been a thing here on LI for all of my adult life. But after getting a bill recently of nearly fifty dollars for basically two omelette plates I really have no desire to do it again. That kind of money just takes all the desire out of it. Back when I was in highschool those two plates were probably less than four dollars.