In addition to people not going I’m sure these businesses are seeing their costs rise dramatically (you know those food and energy costs that are excluded from the official inflation numbers because, like, who needs food and energy?) - but they aren’t going to be able to raise their prices to compensate. A $10 combo meal at Wendy’s? Not happening.
I actually can’t believe how high the fast food prices already are! I think I paid close to $10 for a burger and potato at Backyard Burger just recently.
Normally, I don’t eat out but I was tired and made the mistake of going to Sonic to get their brown bag special for our lunch today. Well, they don’t have brown bag specials (2 burgers/2 sides/2 drinks) anymore so you have to order everything separately which costs more. So, I got two regular burgers and two large choc shakes. Not only are they charging more but their large shakes are now smaller than their medium sized ones were. Two burgers that looked like someone sat on them and two shakes came to $13! Because it was cheaper, I came home and put some cheese and jalapenos on the burgers just to perk them up and make us feel like we were getting more for the buck (not, whatever).