Kitchen

[Quackeroo]

If you don't eat out much, is it because of your budget? Your distance from eateries? Your concerns about health/germs?

We eat out (including fast food) probably 3x a week--usually lunch or dinner. Breakfast is so easy to make at home, we rarely eat out for that, except an occasional Sunday brunch after church.

We like some "chains" (a dirty word among some food snobs today) because of their predictability and consistency. (We have eaten at too many "locally owned" places in various towns with average-to-bad overpriced food--depending on which cook is off--and weird floating hours that don't match the website posting.) We like Jose Peppers, Golden Corral (during senior bargain hours), Culver's, Freddy's, and some local Chinese, Indian & Thai places.

My #1 rule for any place is HOT food should be HOT and COLD food should be COLD. If that's not happening, I don't eat there.

For reference, we live in the Midwest, so we don't have the reservation/transportation/pricing issues some in urban areas might deal with.

~Quack

[Imaoldhippie]

Once a week, sometimes twice.

[kaydee50]

Once or twice a week in the past.  One usually "fast food" e.g., Panda Express, Taco Bell, etc., and another with tablecloths and waiter service.  However, recently we found we've been spending around $100 at lunch!!  So we will be cutting back on some of the "fancier" restaurants.  

Personally, I feel the restaurants are taking advantage but it's our choice whether we patronize them or not.

[Quackeroo]

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@kaydee50 wrote:

Once or twice a week in the past.  One usually "fast food" e.g., Panda Express, Taco Bell, etc., and another with tablecloths and waiter service.  However, recently we found we've been spending around $100 at lunch!!  So we will be cutting back on some of the "fancier" restaurants.  

Personally, I feel the restaurants are taking advantage but it's our choice whether we patronize them or not.

Taking advantage how? You mean with their price increases?

~Quack

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[deepwaterdotter]

We don't since the pandemic.  The increase in prices is beyond our budget.  And 2 of our favorite local restaurants never reopened after the lockdown.

[lynnie61]

Maybe once a week.  It may be take out, it may be our favorite place for wings.  Rarely pizza anymore.  A few months ago, got a large pizza, it was $33, before tip, and I thought that was high, and the toppings were much less than they used to be.  A lot of restaurant food now seems to just be mediocre at best.  

[Quackeroo]

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@deepwaterdotter wrote:

And 2 of our favorite local restaurants never reopened after the lockdown.

That's sad. And it happened in so many places.

~Quack

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[Quackeroo]

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@lynnie61 wrote:

Maybe once a week.  It may be take out, it may be our favorite place for wings.  Rarely pizza anymore.  A few months ago, got a large pizza, it was $33, before tip, and I thought that was high, and the toppings were much less than they used to be.  A lot of restaurant food now seems to just be mediocre at best.  

The price of pizza has gotten ridiculous plus they still want you to tip when you go to pick it up. Say what?

~Quack

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[kaydee50]

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@Quackeroo wrote:

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@kaydee50 wrote:

Once or twice a week in the past.  One usually "fast food" e.g., Panda Express, Taco Bell, etc., and another with tablecloths and waiter service.  However, recently we found we've been spending around $100 at lunch!!  So we will be cutting back on some of the "fancier" restaurants.  

Personally, I feel the restaurants are taking advantage but it's our choice whether we patronize them or not.

Taking advantage how? You mean with their price increases?

~Quack

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Yes.  I understand they lost business for an extended time but the ones we go to are sure making up for it!  As I said, our decision to eat there or not.

[Quackeroo]

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@kaydee50 wrote:

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@Quackeroo wrote:

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@kaydee50 wrote:

Once or twice a week in the past.  One usually "fast food" e.g., Panda Express, Taco Bell, etc., and another with tablecloths and waiter service.  However, recently we found we've been spending around $100 at lunch!!  So we will be cutting back on some of the "fancier" restaurants.  

Personally, I feel the restaurants are taking advantage but it's our choice whether we patronize them or not.

Taking advantage how? You mean with their price increases?

~Quack

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Yes.  I understand they lost business for an extended time but the ones we go to are sure making up for it!  As I said, our decision to eat there or not.

Yep. Vote with your wallet.

~Quack

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