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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WSJ touched on this theme in an article yesterday about how people are shifting to eating mainly appetizers when they eat out to save on costs and now restaurants are changing their menus. Buried in the article was that average spend per check has declined at about half the restaurants and profits have also declined.

While places may seem packed, there's clearly more to it than meets the eye.[/quote]

Could you share a gift link, please?[/quote]

I read this article the other day.  While I suppose people are looking to save money, I have a different perspective:  my DH and I share apps mostly because food portions are so enormous, and we are in our 50s and don’t need to eat like that.  We will often sit at the bar, order drinks, and share shrimp cocktail and a salad.  A regular salad is waaay too much food, and I do’t like to save dressed salads for another day.

When we lived in Europe, they used to serve what I thought of as “right sized” meals (i.e., a 5 oz steak, 1/2 cup rice, small salad, and a 1/4 cup dessert).  No restaurant in America is going to do that because Americans, with the ‘Costco buy-in-bulk to get more for your money mentality’ would never spend their money like that.[/quote]

Europe is a continent not a country (just an FYI so you know) and eating customs differ from country to country. This was NOT my experience when we were stationed in Italy. The serving sizes were absurd. Same in Germany.  [/quote]

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