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[quote=Anonymous]I mean ... it depends on where you.

For low end sit down, let's take an example that DCUM loves to flame: Olive Garden. I'll use it because I think it is typical, pricewise, and you can't argue it isn't low end. At Olive Garden the average entree is about $16 (cheapest being 12.99 and most expensive being 22.49), with free salad and breadsticks, and a glass of wine is about $6. So you can eat there pretty cheaply -- around $25 or so.

Up a notch to a neighborhood place that is still casual. In my neighborhood -- let's choose Clare and Don's. Grilled fish dinner starts at 17.50 and we go up to Crab Cakes at 28.75. Let's call an average dinner entree there $23. Small salads are $5. Then add a Margarita for $5. So we are up to about $30 or a little more.

Now somewhere nice. Date night-ish. Again in my neighborhood -- Thompson's Italian. A little gem salad is $20. Entrees are going to range from $23 for less expensive pasta dishes to $35 for arctic char fish. Add a glass of wine, let's say $9, which is a low estimate, but they don't have their alc prices online. Now we are looking at, oh, about $55.

And of course all of this is before tax and tip.

For a family of four, with two being kids? Or ordering from the regular menu? Say they are ordering from the regular menu but not wine, a family of four you will get out of a cheaper place like Olive Garden, including tax and tip, maybe
a bit under $100. And you can kind of figure out based on the above how it would go up from there, easily costing a lot more depending on what people order.  [/quote]

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