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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A recent story from the NYT (linked below) discusses takeout and delivery spending. The topic isn’t anything new and I’m sure this has been discussed ad nauseam, but I continue to be fascinated by people’s spending habits in this area. One family highlighted in the article spends ~$700/week on takeout (2 adults + 2 kids). This seems so high, but maybe my household (2 adults + 1 child) are just on the very low end of takeout spending. I think annually we probably spend no more than $1500 on takeout/delivery and make $270K per year (combined).

Anyways, if anyone is willing to share what their household spends on delivery/takeout I would be interested to know.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/dining/food-delivery-apps-doordash-uber.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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I fear the bigger issue with this is how it's been normalized for GenZ. Even kids in college are getting food delivered by robots using Uber Eats. The fees of these things just compound the rapidly escalating food itself.

I'm old enough to remember when you could get pizza and Chinese food delivered from the restaurants themselves. You'd throw the delivery person a few dollars as a tip, but that was it. Now you can get Taco Bell delivered and you end up paying $40 for a $13 meal. And kids today think this is NORMAL. [/quote]

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