Have you cut back from eating out?

[Anonymous]

We have cut back a lot. We never ate out a ton but even ordering takeout is so expensive now. Plus the quality isn’t even that great. I can make way better food at home, even simple stuff. As a family of four we have seen our income increase these last few years but rising costs have made it feel like a wash. When we decided to tighten our belts eating out was the first thing to go. This is why people don’t want to hear “oh, inflation is fixed.” To a middle class person, this economy just still feel like it sucks and hearing how great it is all the time just pissed me off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Took my 17 son To Taco Bell, $45 bill. Crazy, DD is addicted to Starbucks, kaching. I told her that her habit is about $1000 a year.

I stopped getting breakfast out myself, it use to be for money but now it’s on principle, breakfast $30 out? $4+ for coffee?

That amount could help fund 10 years of a kid's education in a developing part of the world. 10 years!

And yet it can’t fund even a couple months of college education here in the great US of A

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We havent been put to eat since 2020 it started when covid started but we save so much and are healthier now and dont miss it. Now we hear the service is terrible, taxes very high, service fees, long waits and bad food we don't feel like we're missing anything.

+1 same!

+2
I like my fat bank account better. Don't miss eating out at all.

[Anonymous]

We stopped going out almost 3 years ago, it is cost prohibitive to us. We used to grab Chopt salads regularly for lunch, and now it is $38 for two salads. No thank you. We only go once a year to a nice restaurant to celebrate each other birthdays. Economy sucks.

[Anonymous]

Yes, a lot of the prices I see just aren't worth it anymore, so I'm happy to eat at home.

Chipotle costs almost as much as a decent sit down restaurant, so skipping chipotle is a no brainer to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People, repeat after me:

Dining out
Dining out
Dining out

Stop saying “eating out” in this context!

Go away.

[Anonymous]

I posted on a separate thread about using the bathroom at a restaurant. I opened the stall door to find the restaurant manager (female) waiting just outside the door. She rushed in when I walked out, claiming to have a reason. It was bizarre at best, and so disturbing. Have no idea what that was about, and don't care. I don't think we'll be going back to that restaurant any time soon. I don't need to be creeped out when I'm spending a lot of money at a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted on a separate thread about using the bathroom at a restaurant. I opened the stall door to find the restaurant manager (female) waiting just outside the door. She rushed in when I walked out, claiming to have a reason. It was bizarre at best, and so disturbing. Have no idea what that was about, and don't care. I don't think we'll be going back to that restaurant any time soon. I don't need to be creeped out when I'm spending a lot of money at a restaurant.

What is bizarre is you thinking it's "bizarre" and "so disturbing" that a restaurant manager might have an urgent need to use a bathroom like other humans sometimes do.

[Anonymous]

We used to eat 4 days of the week out. Now we eat 2 meals out per week.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I used to get a big salad for lunch 2-3x a week at Sweet Green or Chopt when it was $12-14, but now it’s basically $20.

Last time I ordered Chik Fil A delivery for the kids and a babysitter it was $65! With HS sitters wanting $20/hr I will make food at home for the kids before we go out and the sitter can Uber eats extra food with the $120-160 I am paying them if they don’t like what I have in the fridge.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but we've replaced it with prepared food from grocery stores which are cheaper. Prepared soups from Trader Joe's. Rotisserie chickens from Wegmans etc. Starbucks has always seemed like a big waste of money to me, but I'm not a coffee conneisseur and I know some people are. I do miss our weekly Sweet Green though. It was healthy and delicious but it's gotten so expensive for a family of four, we do it rarely. We still love our Taco Bell though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I used to get a big salad for lunch 2-3x a week at Sweet Green or Chopt when it was $12-14, but now it’s basically $20.

Last time I ordered Chik Fil A delivery for the kids and a babysitter it was $65! With HS sitters wanting $20/hr I will make food at home for the kids before we go out and the sitter can Uber eats extra food with the $120-160 I am paying them if they don’t like what I have in the fridge.

I get sweetgreen and chop’t every week in dc and pay $13.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I posted on a separate thread about using the bathroom at a restaurant. I opened the stall door to find the restaurant manager (female) waiting just outside the door. She rushed in when I walked out, claiming to have a reason. It was bizarre at best, and so disturbing. Have no idea what that was about, and don't care. I don't think we'll be going back to that restaurant any time soon. I don't need to be creeped out when I'm spending a lot of money at a restaurant.

What is bizarre is you thinking it's "bizarre" and "so disturbing" that a restaurant manager might have an urgent need to use a bathroom like other humans sometimes do.

A restaurant manager got the runs and needed to use the bathroom urgently. So disturbing! So creepy! So bizarre!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I posted on a separate thread about using the bathroom at a restaurant. I opened the stall door to find the restaurant manager (female) waiting just outside the door. She rushed in when I walked out, claiming to have a reason. It was bizarre at best, and so disturbing. Have no idea what that was about, and don't care. I don't think we'll be going back to that restaurant any time soon. I don't need to be creeped out when I'm spending a lot of money at a restaurant.

What is bizarre is you thinking it's "bizarre" and "so disturbing" that a restaurant manager might have an urgent need to use a bathroom like other humans sometimes do.

A restaurant manager got the runs and needed to use the bathroom urgently. So disturbing! So creepy! So bizarre!

Or she had her period unexpectedly. Or she is pregnant and felt nauseated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I posted on a separate thread about using the bathroom at a restaurant. I opened the stall door to find the restaurant manager (female) waiting just outside the door. She rushed in when I walked out, claiming to have a reason. It was bizarre at best, and so disturbing. Have no idea what that was about, and don't care. I don't think we'll be going back to that restaurant any time soon. I don't need to be creeped out when I'm spending a lot of money at a restaurant.

What is bizarre is you thinking it's "bizarre" and "so disturbing" that a restaurant manager might have an urgent need to use a bathroom like other humans sometimes do.

Seriously, maybe she had recently had a colonoscopy and was experiencing some after-affects, or maybe switched birth control pills and was having breakthrough bleeding.