When are restaurants going to owner prices just paid $100 for olive garden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People demanded $15 an hour, and when others said prices would go up, they were shouted down. Well?

This.



I mean, I'm glad wages went up, but yeah, you can't expect prices to remain the same when they do.

Wrong. Servers are not making $15 an hour. This money didn’t go to wages, it went to the record corporate profits they’re all logging. BILLIONS of dollars transferred into the hands of the wealthy thanks to CoVID while regular people got poorer.

Tipped servers aren't the only people working in restaurants. Higher wages have absolutely played a role in increased prices (although perhaps not as much as increases in food costs, and, as you mention, rampant corporate greed).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, spending $10 at Olive Garden is a ripoff.

Agree. Unless it is on the salad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicken Alfredo 19.49… kids meal 6.99.
So 2 adults and 2 kids would be $54 plus tax and tip. So maybe $70.
Don’t spend money on soda or alcohol.

If you’re on a budget share an entree.
$34 plus tax and tip. They have free salad and breadsticks.

This is not realistic. Most people when they go out want to have drinks. So even if you don't get alcoholic drinks it is:
19.49 for one adult meal
19.49 for another adult meal
6.99 if you have one kid under 12
6.99 if you have another kid under 12
3.49 x 4 for nonalcoholic drinks
So even if you get nothing else that is $66.92
Plus 6% tax is 4 dollars more so you get to $70.
Twenty percent tip on that brings you to $84

That is if you don't order appetizers, alcoholic drinks, or desserts and you have two kids under 12
Most people do so are easily going to spend $100.

I just don't think it is worth it to eat out anymore at most places. Many of the big chain restaurants are afraid of people getting food poisoning so they precook the food then it gets shipped to their restaurants, then it is warmed up at the local restaurant and served.

My husband goes to the butcher and buys a nice cut of meat and grills it up to go with sides I make. Or I get a take to bake meal at Costco or somewhere else. So much cheaper and better quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prices might normalize if people stop going out in appreciable numbers.
Judging by how mobbed the food court and restaurants were at lunchtime at Montgomery Mall today that’s probably never going to happen.

Yup. There is still too much money in the economy and consumers are still too flush with cash. People are too willing at the moment to pay these prices for anything, which is why inflation is still sticking around. One recession and these prices will implode.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicken Alfredo 19.49… kids meal 6.99.
So 2 adults and 2 kids would be $54 plus tax and tip. So maybe $70.
Don’t spend money on soda or alcohol.

If you’re on a budget share an entree.
$34 plus tax and tip. They have free salad and breadsticks.

This is not realistic. Most people when they go out want to have drinks. So even if you don't get alcoholic drinks it is:
19.49 for one adult meal
19.49 for another adult meal
6.99 if you have one kid under 12
6.99 if you have another kid under 12
3.49 x 4 for nonalcoholic drinks
So even if you get nothing else that is $66.92
Plus 6% tax is 4 dollars more so you get to $70.
Twenty percent tip on that brings you to $84

That is if you don't order appetizers, alcoholic drinks, or desserts and you have two kids under 12
Most people do so are easily going to spend $100.

[/b]I just don't think it is worth it to eat out anymore at most places.[b] Many of the big chain restaurants are afraid of people getting food poisoning so they precook the food then it gets shipped to their restaurants, then it is warmed up at the local restaurant and served.

My husband goes to the butcher and buys a nice cut of meat and grills it up to go with sides I make. Or I get a take to bake meal at Costco or somewhere else. So much cheaper and better quality.

So don’t go out. We still enjoy it. But we’re not going to chain restaurants.

[Anonymous]

If you go to a sit down restaurant, who is not expecting to pay $100 for four people? That’s still pretty moderately priced.

[Anonymous]

I hear people complain about the prices, but someone is paying them. Restaurants aren't going to lower prices if the demand continues. Why would they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People demanded $15 an hour, and when others said prices would go up, they were shouted down. Well?

+2

[Anonymous]

Just get the free salad and breadsticks

[Anonymous]

Olive Garden it’s not the best.

[Anonymous]

Assuming you mean “lower,” the answer is they aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People demanded $15 an hour, and when others said prices would go up, they were shouted down. Well?

Go back to high school economics and try again until you get it.

[Anonymous]

Olive Garden Chicken Alfredo has 1,490 calories and 1,950 mg of sodium.

Maybe rethink your choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just get the free salad and breadsticks

You only get those if you order an entree.

If you want them on their own, it’s like $13 now (unless it’s lunchtime on a weekday).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People demanded $15 an hour, and when others said prices would go up, they were shouted down. Well?

+2

So there are at least two dummies in this thread.