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All-In [44157]
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ITT, can we beyotch about restaurants?
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May 3, 2024, 10:43 AM
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Brosephs y KMS, this industry has become WHACK.
It seems as if in the post covid world, restaurants have changed here in the US. Unfortunately I don't see any turning back.
The cycle of the labor market demanding more money has perpetuated this. The response by restaurants has been of course to raise prices and to shove a tip ask in your face everytime you turn around. While I don't like the extra tip pressure, I can work through that as it's a choice.
With raising prices, they've raised food portions in effort to justify them.
I don't eat out much but when I do, it seems like many "meals" you order come with enough food to feed like 3 people that eat sensibly.
Went to a chinese spot the other day (Asia Pacific). Gen Tso chicken was like $16. Sweatergod no 2 humans could have eaten it all unless real fattassery or if doing it for a bet. Solution? I guess take a friend and split it.
Fajitas at a local Mexican joint, also $17. It feeds 3, easy.
I HATE food wasting. Can't stand it. I'd bet a busy restaurant throws away about a 15 gallon container of food every day, if only scraping it from the stuff people don't eat.
The other big issue here is that I'd suspect a lot of people over eat in restaurants, because bottomless food.
Unfortunately I can't see restaurants EVER cutting prices and portions in half, so I reckon we will continue to via for fattest country dominance for years to come.
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I much prefer small plates
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May 3, 2024, 10:47 AM
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and I avoid the "large" portion places. I'd rather pay for good food rather than a lot of food.
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Re: ITT, can we beyotch about restaurants?
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May 3, 2024, 10:51 AM
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I see where you're coming from, but I've noticed the opposite when it comes to portion size in relation to price.
The other post-covid restaurant business model is that they can make more money sending food out the door rather than serving it to customers that actually bothered to come in and sit down at a table. The wife and I went out and sat there for close to an hour for our meal. Meanwhile, take-out orders and Doordash orders were leaving the joint in a big hurry. The kitchen is too busy making those to worry about anyone sitting at a table. Ah, just have another drink! Plus, I don't have to pay a server or a dishwasher if the orders are going out.
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All-In [44157]
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Wait, are you saying you see smaller portions at higher prices?
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May 3, 2024, 11:15 AM
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I'm sure that's out there but I don't see it much.
Also, I've never had a complaint in a restaurant around there not being enough food served.
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Oculus Spirit [79012]
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Asia Pacific is good
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May 3, 2024, 10:52 AM
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Great store attached to it also
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Agreed. Also, lemme beyotch and complain about $7 kids' meals that
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May 3, 2024, 10:53 AM
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are a bowl of noodles or a grilled cheese sandwhich.
Brother, that is poverty-ass food and you are charging $7 for it. Oh, kids want Sprite? Those are $2.99. So now we are at $30 for three kids' meals in a restaurant. 20% tip and 7% tax and the kids alone cost close to $40 to eat.
Get takeout, split it at home. Or go to a pizza joint, order two pizzas and waters and go to town. I also started drinking PBR or Busch at restaurants because I am cheap.
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Kraft mac and cheese...
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May 3, 2024, 11:05 AM
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6 mini corndogs that came out of a bag from the grocery. Sides? A gogurt and a fruit cocktail as the "fruit cup" at one place near us that's good for a quick dinner out with kids.
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If'n ya hadn't learned yet, those scokker weekends will get
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May 3, 2024, 11:13 AM
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ballsdeep in that wallet if you don't prep ahead and instead get in a spot where you have to eat out all weekend. Plus restaurant food is generally no bueno and unhealthy, particularly the fast food type shid when in a hurry.
Imma ALWAYS pack road food for out of town weekends, if nothing else on principle alone.
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Yeah that's on you. They should have charged you
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May 3, 2024, 11:22 AM
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13.50 for being ghay.
Soda. Water.
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Oculus Spirit [81580]
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I was dry.
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May 3, 2024, 11:26 AM
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What amigonna drink? Coke? Eff that. As one ages....you're lessened by what you can actually consume. Its a process of narrowing down what you enjoy vs what you can tolerate.
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2 choices:
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May 3, 2024, 11:30 AM
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Beer
Water
If dry, water.
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Legend [17436]
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Old Boomer couples often just split an entree.
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May 3, 2024, 11:10 AM
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Dye your hair, buy a pair of cheaters and put on your slip ons and join us at 3 pm for the end of lunchtime specials or the beginning of early bird specials!
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Funny you say that. I'm a big guy, 6'3" and 116 kg, but I don't eat near as much
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May 3, 2024, 11:29 AM
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as I used to so we sometimes do that, especially if it's like the serving of lasagna you get at Joe's NY Pizza or something.
FTR - I never eat before 6:30-7:00.
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It's the poor service that frustrates me.***
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May 3, 2024, 11:15 AM
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Me too. ONCE.
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May 3, 2024, 11:18 AM
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Bad service once? No problem. I won't even complain. I'll just never go back. And I'm probably as low maintenance of a person that's out there.
Just bring what I ordered and bring it in a reasonable amount of time. Bring me a few extra napkins, and refill my water when it's almost empty.
Apart from that, we good. F it up? I'm out.
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Legend [17436]
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Oh my, get therapy! You sound like a Boomer in training!
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May 3, 2024, 11:28 AM
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Your servers have to check their phone messages from six different apps and can’t be bothered by customer expectations. Manage water consumption to match meal duration!
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When Mrs. Tig got the celiac diagnosis at the start of 2020, our restauranting
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May 3, 2024, 11:16 AM
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pretty much ground to a dead stop. We've since found a few regular places that are trusted by her but it still amounts to the fact that we're probably averaging less than one meal in a restaurant per month (unless traveling). So...one would think this is a huge savings to the household budget except after you factor in the grocery difference of gluten-free products, then I MIGHT be breaking even. Or, I might not be.
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Oculus Spirit [81580]
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Per your suggestion
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May 3, 2024, 11:24 AM
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I'm being tested for that as we speak. I'm waiting for lab results now.
For that, and stomach cancer.
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Oculus Spirit [79012]
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May 3, 2024, 11:32 AM
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I hope it's neither or celiac disease, Ts and Ps for your outcome
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Heisman Winner [106165]
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Brother, I hope you wasted alot of money in diagnoses and it is
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May 3, 2024, 11:37 AM
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neither of those.
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Oculus Spirit [81580]
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As do I***
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May 3, 2024, 11:42 AM
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All-In [28699]
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you got this man - just precautionary testing.***
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May 3, 2024, 11:45 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81580]
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Re: you got this man - just precautionary testing.***
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May 3, 2024, 12:19 PM
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Yeah, I think so as well. They found a fair amount of acidic damage and some old ulcers, so he put me on some prescription antacid. I'm on the 3rd day of whatever he prescribed and my stomach already feels better, and he's going back in to check progress in 7 weeks.
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Heisman Winner [136117]
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Hopefully neither, but at least if it turns out to be a diagnosis for celiac
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you can make a few lifestyle changes and get on about living life. And, it could still be some level of gluten sensitivity without being a true celiac. The doctor who diagnosed Mrs. (after several years of trying to figure out what was wrong) told us that a whole lot of people have some degree of gluten sensitivity and that a true celiac is actually pretty rare. It's a pain, but once you get a system down you can deal with it.
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You will lose your ####### mind if you go to the chinese place at the
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May 3, 2024, 12:13 PM
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Florence Mall
Micallen
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I may very well lose my mind.
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May 3, 2024, 12:41 PM
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100% odds it won't happen at the Florence mall though.
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