Posted on 09/22/2023 7:08:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
https://foodanswers.org/is-butter-fattening/
I’m not a dietician but saying butter is not fattening, well many would disagree. Moderation in everything of course.
My city has had several local diners the seniors always frequented. Unfortunately a few of them are gone. Not sure where they go now.
I pretty much use the drive thru and get a croissant or bagel to go with my homemade espresso. Greek salad or breakfast bagel sandwiches otherwise. Some stuff is overpriced, but high quality. Very good staff.
Agree, 100%.
And, it’s like half of the country is in a trance, as to what is happening, now :-(
I resemble that remark.
Having been in a couple of those places since the pandemic, mostly the people wanting to go there the most are *really* old. One possibility is that the senior contingent that really loved eating there simply died in the interim.
On the other hand, I was at a fish fry at a tavern in far south Chicago tonight which looked like the dining hall at a retirement community. It was full of customers.
It’s the high prices. Secondarily, it’s the realization that these joints are starch central.
When times were a tad looser, these folks could go for a $10 meal and escape for $15 beverage, tax and tip.
Now that most of these restaurants have skipped right over the $15 price point for a meal and gone to $18-$20 and the escape price is bordering on $24-$30 all-in for truly unremarkable food, it’s turned into a dumb decision.
I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve eaten at an actual restaurant in the last 2-3 years. And I am no kind of cook, I can work a Geo Foreman grill. There was a kind of Mediterranean kebab burger joint that had a very good $10 burger near me that I liked. That burger today is $18.50. I cannot physically make myself walk into the place, sit down, and order a burger.
This is no knock on Olive Garden (well, maybe a little), but if you have a local Italian restaurant, try to eat there. They could use the business, too.
Stupid comment .
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Let see in the US people have exhausted their saving and credit over the last 3 year due to the underreported real Biden created inflation. When people have to spend all they got just to make ends meet, there no money for “extras” like eating out. You see all dozens of social media posts daily by people saying how broke they are. I never use to see these prior to Bidenomics.
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Cracker Barrel doesn’t want the senior crowd. They have tried to rebrand by offering alcohol and getting rid of the old favorites that seniors liked and replacing them with crap that they think will attract a younger crowd. With the current conditions in Bidenistan they’ve had to raise prices and cut corners on what was already pretty plain fare. And they pay crap, so they can’t keep cooks and are constantly training new ones.
It’s not working. The younger folks that wouldn’t be caught dead in a CB still aren’t coming, and a lot of us older folks have either reduced visits to CB or stopped altogether. Used to be a decent, value meal - now overpriced and inconsistant.
Another thing people miss is how inflation creates disaster in the supply chain.
Restaurants have to pay much higher costs for everything from food to lighting to wages. The short sighted corporate response is often to start cutting corners on the quality of the food. Doesn’t take very many poor quality meals to lose the senior crowd.
Yes, your comments typically are stupid....so, there is that.
I happen to know elderly folks who loved going to Cracker Barrel, on a regular basis, and, no longer can....thanks to adverse effects of the jabs.
I’m sure they are NOT alone.
So, kindly stuff it in your pie hole.
Restaurants have usually absorbed the cost of carryout containers and bags but those items can easily add about 5 - 10% to the cost of materials.
Since carryout was their bread and butter during the pandemic persecution they understandably don’t want to charge a “carryout fee” but...
It is odd because during covid I found that I could go in a restaurant, sit down, take my mask off and eat, and I tricked the covid virus good because it couldn’t tell I took off my mask. Then I had to put that mask back on because I knew that old covid would find me walking to the door.
/sarcasm
I think you’re on to something there. The Crackle Barrel brand is not healthy regardless of politics and likely headed for deep stagnation.
I think you’re on to something there. The Crackle Barrel brand is not healthy regardless of politics and likely headed for deep stagnation.
Nonsense. Covid has little to do with declining business at these restaurants. The economic downturn during the Covid scam was, first and foremost, self-induced. The teacher’s unions wanted everything forever locked down, as did many other socialist Democrats.
All that notwithstanding, I sense a cultural shift. Whether permanent or not I don’t know, but it’s combination of factors.
Let’s be honest, first, people are just not as happy as they once were, are generally more grumpy, and go out less. Second, the economy is a driving factor regardless of how great the media keeps telling everyone the economy is. Third, let’s face, a lot of things, including dining out, has become a chore. A lot of retail places are woefully understaffed making almost everything in daily life much more difficult than the way most of us remember. People have less money. People are not as carefree cheerful. Retail transactions have often become much more hit-or-miss with every retail worker now begging for tips.
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