Posted on 04/06/2024 6:40:55 AM PDT by Libloather
I have little doubt that you're right.
today that dollar value back in 1967 is $9. So that burger meal was a bit more $4.50 in todays money.
You want a cheap sandwich, make it at home. I have posted many times you can make 10 Schlotzsky’s 6” original for the price of 1 at the window. $11.14 for 10 at home or $111.14 at the window.
Full disclosure, mine have 2 meats vs. 3 at the store because genoa salami isn’t sold here but you don’t miss it. The sourdough buns are no knead and take 90 seconds to stir up and it does its thing while you’re at work so easy peasy.
Make a large pizza at home for $3 vs. today’s $12 deal.
Seriously?!? A bowl of fried rice at Panda Express is $8.50. Rice costs pennies. Toss in some leftover veggies and it might be 50 cents at home.
Other franchise owners are being forced to close - Foster Freeze in Leemore ,CA. The workers found out as they were on their way in to work - they said they'd rather keep lower pay than be out of a job.
I'd ask who they voted for (Gavin Newsom, most likely):
The Panera near me (SoCal) just closed its doors.
It will join the myriad of local businesses that have closed their doors in the past two years (with no new businesses moving in).
Duh.
Seriously, the last time I bought a whopper it was 99 cents.
Yep. My friends and I have been meeting at Lazy Dog restaurant for years for lunch - we always get the lunch specials which were priced at $7.75.
Those same “specials” are now $17.95.
I use this thought exercise to explain how the world looks to the risk: Regarding everything you are thinking you might want or need to buy, remove two zeroes from the price. And remove three zeroes for the very rich, and four or five for the super rich.
Seriously. When a $100,000 car is suddenly a thousand bucks, it seems oddly affordable.😁
And then the collectivists enact mandatory price controls. A burger cannot cost more than $7.
The poor young schmuck would be better off learning to cook and invite the gal over for a quiet romantic dinner with him as the chef. Cooking ain’t rocket science. Our 4th grader made the entire Thanksgiving dinner from scratch without any help one year when I was sick as a dog.
The interesting thing about wage increases at restaurants is that it doesn’t affect the cost of food at all. It only affects the cost of restaurant food. It means people will just eat less at restaurants.
My wife and I stopped doing that with any regularity over a decade ago. We still eat out - but VERY rarely. Frankly, my wife’s cooking is better than most of the restaurants near me, except for stuff like sushi.
Inevitable.
Back in the 80s . I worked mostly minimum wage jobs or a little more...and I was able to live in a cheap hote..by the week..feed myself ...and maintain my gas driven car ($600)..which cost about $5 a week to get to and from work.
No way could I do that today.
The sad part of this is that if Cauliphonya had raised their minimum wage before the dildo moved into the White Hut, the taxpayers wouldn’t have had to pay for the college kid deadbeats to get a diploma and an “I Went to College” sweatshirt.
..an old line from Perry Mason. “You want a hamburger with french fries on the side for 37 cent?”
And Let’s go New Scum!
$12 average sandwiches at Panera is far from cheap. Their cheapest is a grilled cheese at $7.50 + tax + tip = >$10, smh.
Much like Starbucks and pretty much everywhere, I’ve never had the desire to set foot in one. We cook at home.
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