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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I was early to this party because we live in the District, which was an early adopter of all the specious 'pro employee' legislation and fees that have led us to the logical result:  $33 hamburgers.  (Tipped servers now earn $17.50/hr instead of $2/hr.  20% mandatory service charge added to the check, but "tips are (still) welcome !!!!" on top of that;  $5 flat Covid supplies fee in ... 2024.  3.5% "recovery" fees ...

We suck.

These Helpful Tools Are Tracking Every Restaurant Fee Across DC
https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/01/11/these-helpful-tools-are-tracking-every-restaurant-fee-across-dc/[/quote]

It’s absolutely worse in DC. I moved away from DC pre-Covid, and back then restaurants in the relatively LCOL city I live in were not that much cheaper than DC. My town has seen inflation, like everywhere, but I spent some time in DC recently, and I was shocked at the price differential now. Also worse food, in most cases. Notably, the almost complete absence of good mid-range restaurants. Everything was either ridiculously expensive for a non-5 star meal, or takeout. We did find a few good hole in the wall ethnic places, but those weren’t cheap. It’s got to be the government imposed expense, plus real estate costs, but I also think that over the last 5-10 years, talented young chefs are going out into the hinterlands to start restaurants, because they can afford to do it there. I ate a wonderful, reasonably priced, meal at a small, very cool, place in a tiny town the other day that was run by a young couple that was just starting out. The DC restaurant scene has become the equivalent of that cool boutique shopping district that became popular and real estate got so expensive that now all it has is chains. [/quote]

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