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Posted on 08/21/2025 11:05:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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The ultimate cheap was a millionaire who said he would buy our 5 adults lunch while we were helping a senior citizen move, he sent his wife to Subway without taking our personalized orders which was odd, but what he served us was the oddest meal related thing I’ve ever seen.
The millionaire had bought a single 1 foot subway, dry with no dressings or lettuce and tomato, he set it down and cut it into five pieces for five hard working adults, a bite apiece.
On the rare times I go out to eat (birthdays, mainly) I KNOW to order something I REALLY like because I’ll be eating it for two more meals as well.
Portion sizes these days are ridiculous.
I eat out often because I travel for work (no reimbursement, I’m an independent contractor). What I have noticed is that the smaller steaks have gone up in price so much that they have almost caught up with the big ones which apparently aren’t as popular. I keep a cold bag in my vehicle and plan on leftovers. I had a 20 oz bone-in ribeye (yum!) with all the fixings and tip for about $45 at Texas Roadhouse. That gave me 4 meals with 1/4 lb of steak plus the divvied up sides. Compared to 4 Quarter Pounders, I think I did OK. :-)
That said, in situations where I can’t keep leftovers, I would definitely consider the smaller kids meals, because that’s really all I need at one time, and I can’t stand to waste food.
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8 bucks for a Whopper at Burger King, and it does not even come with cheese. They can keep it.
Arby’s has a special. 4 roast beef sandwiches for 10 bucks. Now here is the catch. If you want cheese on those then it cost 90 cents for each sandwich. That is $3.60 plus tax to get them with cheese. And its like a shot of cheese wiz. They can keep those too.
“The policy at most restaurants is you get a
kids meal only when you order a regular meal.”
I only eat where I can get a kid’s meal and my Senior Citizen’s Discount... lol
Not inflation not tariff’s not shortages odd how prices have increased now Trump is in office huh Moe.
They could keep the toy if they’d let me play in the ball pit. But nooooo...
Military spending 💰 inflation. Nskiers.
Another thing to do is order the basic old fashioned burger instead of the flagship. At Burger King, I get the basic bottom of the menu “Double Cheeseburger” instead of a Whopper.
About half the size, and half the price. And more like what you got long ago.
Property taxes. ✖️💰👀
Unhealth insurance scam. ✖️💰👀
Our company was pretty successful and the owner had purchased a VERY nice home on a golf course that was part of the PGA tour. He decided to celebrate the good year by having the staff over for a holiday dinner of filet and lobster. He really played up how wonderful this was going to be.
Then he put his wife in charge of the meal.
She was the disastrous combination of cheap and health conscious. The boss had ordered the filets from a local butcher. She took one look at the 6 to 8 ounce fillets and concluded they were too big. Ditto the lobster tails. She sliced everything in half. This was also served restaurant style with the completely plated dinner on each person’s dish...not buffet or family style.
Our delivery girl, Ann, weighed a good 250. Her husband Tim was 6’ 4’ and nearly 400 pounds. The look on Tim’s face when they placed the food in front of him was priceless. Pure shock and confusion. Tim then looked and saw that everyone was getting a micro-meal. He sighed, cut his fillet in two and ate each half one after another in less than a minute.
We lost it. Everyone around the table was snickering and trying to contain themselves. The boss was humiliated and embarrassed. His wife was clueless and kept asking “what’s so funny?”
Have they?
I haven’t really noticed much increase at the various restaurants between February and August...
Wendy’s doublestack and a water right about 3 bucks.. And it’s a meal (for me).
There's some non-intuitive economics going on here.
The biggest driver of restaurant meal prices isn't the ingredients, it's the cost of maintaining the building (paying rent), utilities, preparing the food, serving it to you, and cleaning up after. If they cut the portion in half, it will still cost almost as much to prepare it and put it on your table. Apparently, a critical mass of customers get upset if the portion is "too small" relative to the price. So ... they give you a huge portion. And they don't get upset if you take half of it home for lunch.
“About half the size, and half the price. And more like what you got long ago.”
Yeah, but you still get more if you buy two rather than one of the others.
Reminds me of when our little town got it’s first drive through fast food. It was Jack in the Box and you could get four kid’s Cheese Burgers for a dollar. We didn’t even care how good they were, all we cared about was putting something cheap in our bellies before going to the river to get drunk... lol
Shouldn’t they be paying you to eat that?
“Why?”
It’s too f**king EXPENSIVE!!
We CAN afford it, but refuse to pay those ridiculous prices. Whatever we’re saving in the economy, groceries prices are increasing.
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