Restaurants have gotten so expensive……also recycling and phone apps (4 Viewers)

[Grahamburn]

Got takeout from local taco place. Sat at the bar, had two beers while I ordered and waited. Got 1 giant *** burrito, 6 tacos, side of rice and beans and guac. 61 bucks plus a 5 dollar tip. Fed all four of us wonderfully.

@Scoresman we all shared that 1 burrito

Crazy to me that this is considered a value now.

I fed a hungry family of 4 and got two beers for what amounted to like 16 bucks a person. That would have been a value 15 years ago

What kind of tacos?

3 shrimp and 3 fish

That makes it a bit more understandable.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

I went to Moe's yesterday for the first time in a long time. A homewrecker burrito was $10.05. Which is honestly kind of surprising because, while I am going totally off memory here, I feel like when I went to Moe's regularly like 20 years ago when they had one right next door to where I worked the homewrecker burrito was already $9-$10 way back then. So it's basically the same price now.

Private company, doesn't have a stock that's up a gajillion percent since then.

Maybe part of that is that it was already overpriced way back then, but maybe part of the answer here is to support companies that have been okay keeping relative price parity and enjoying reasonable profit margins rather than the ones like McDonald's et all where both prices and stock price are up 400% over that same period.

 

[pollardsvision]

I went to Moe's yesterday for the first time in a long time. A homewrecker burrito was $10.05. Which is honestly kind of surprising because, while I am going totally off memory here, I feel like when I went to Moe's regularly like 20 years ago when they had one right next door to where I worked the homewrecker burrito was already $9-$10 way back then. So it's basically the same price now.

Private company, doesn't have a stock that's up a gajillion percent since then.

Maybe part of that is that it was already overpriced way back then, but maybe part of the answer here is to support companies that have been okay keeping relative price parity and enjoying reasonable profit margins rather than the ones like McDonald's et all where both prices and stock price are up 400% over that same period.

That does seem pretty reasonable. I just checked Chipotle online and it looks like a chicken burrito is $10 and a steak burrito is about $11. $3 to add guac, of course.

I haven't eaten at either in a while, but I remember Moe's always seemed like a much better value than Chipotle. Of course, we don't have a Moe's here anymore since Chipotle wiped them out.

 

[Todem]

My wife and I go out to lunch a few times a week instead of dinner these days.

Specials everywhere and a far bigger value for the same exact food vs paying dinner prices.

Yes we will still go out for dinner….but we have cut back a lot and replaced those outings with lunch outings.

Also if it’s just us…..we have been splitting one plate. Clutch and better for our waistlines.

We don’t drink.

So Ice water with lemon it is.

The sticker shock post covid has been real. I just can’t justify it anymore for average food.

We carefully choose where we eat out these days. It has to be quality in every way.

Fast food? Lol…..Chick Filet or nothing. Everyone else is overpriced crap. And I mean crap. Crap food, crap service.

We are done with most casual dine places too. Except for:

Carabbas and Texas Roadhouse.

We are supporting locally owned places a lot more now than ever before.

 

[stbugs]

My wife and I go out to lunch a few times a week instead of dinner these days.

Specials everywhere and a far bigger value for the same exact food vs paying dinner prices.

Yes we will still go out for dinner….but we have cut back a lot and replaced those outings with lunch outings.

Also if it’s just us…..we have been splitting one plate. Clutch and better for our waistlines.

We don’t drink.

So Ice water with lemon it is.

The sticker shock post covid has been real. I just can’t justify it anymore for average food.

We carefully choose where we eat out these days. It has to be quality in every way.

Fast food? Lol…..Chick Filet or nothing. Everyone else is overpriced crap. And I mean crap. Crap food, crap service.

We are done with most casual dine places too. Except for:

Carabbas and Texas Roadhouse.

We are supporting locally owned places a lot more now than ever before.

I’d like to think we eat in more now and I think we do, but we still go out like yesterday for lunch for Mother’s Day. For 4 of us, it was a reasonable $153 with tax and tip. 3 alcoholic drinks, 2 big appetizers and 4 meals. We were ridiculously stuffed and I told my two sons, I wasn’t making dinner. Leftovers were dinner when they got hungry. For the amount of food we got, it was actually very reasonable. Saturday night was filets from Costco with a $10 off a package coupon. 6 filets for $63. I should have frozen two of them but I’m going to make some sort of French dip with the two tonight.

I’ve definitely gotten way more conscious of going out and if getting deals. Now that my middle son is back from college, the 3 giants for the price of 2 at Jersey Mikes is back in the rotation. We each usually eat half and then eat the rest for lunch or dinner the next day. 6 meals for $35-40 isn’t so bad. Coupons and rewards through the apps are musts in today’s world, just like finding those reasonable spots and making dinner at home.

 

[Todem]

My wife and I go out to lunch a few times a week instead of dinner these days.

Specials everywhere and a far bigger value for the same exact food vs paying dinner prices.

Yes we will still go out for dinner….but we have cut back a lot and replaced those outings with lunch outings.

Also if it’s just us…..we have been splitting one plate. Clutch and better for our waistlines.

We don’t drink.

So Ice water with lemon it is.

The sticker shock post covid has been real. I just can’t justify it anymore for average food.

We carefully choose where we eat out these days. It has to be quality in every way.

Fast food? Lol…..Chick Filet or nothing. Everyone else is overpriced crap. And I mean crap. Crap food, crap service.

We are done with most casual dine places too. Except for:

Carabbas and Texas Roadhouse.

We are supporting locally owned places a lot more now than ever before.

I’d like to think we eat in more now and I think we do, but we still go out like yesterday for lunch for Mother’s Day. For 4 of us, it was a reasonable $153 with tax and tip. 3 alcoholic drinks, 2 big appetizers and 4 meals. We were ridiculously stuffed and I told my two sons, I wasn’t making dinner. Leftovers were dinner when they got hungry. For the amount of food we got, it was actually very reasonable. Saturday night was filets from Costco with a $10 off a package coupon. 6 filets for $63. I should have frozen two of them but I’m going to make some sort of French dip with the two tonight.

I’ve definitely gotten way more conscious of going out and if getting deals. Now that my middle son is back from college, the 3 giants for the price of 2 at Jersey Mikes is back in the rotation. We each usually eat half and then eat the rest for lunch or dinner the next day. 6 meals for $35-40 isn’t so bad. Coupons and rewards through the apps are musts in today’s world, just like finding those reasonable spots and making dinner at home.

Jersey Mikes is money.

Yes, we eat in minimum 5 days a week for dinner.

 

[nirad3]

I have been trying to stay away from fast food in general, but I in a moment of weakness I went out for some Weinerschnitzel on Friday for lunch. I hadn't been there in a month or so, but was absolutely shocked to see a huge uptick in pricing across the board. The increase will definitely make it easier to stay away, which'll be good for my waistline.

 

[Todem]

Went out with my son and wife for a Japanese tai lunch.

My wife and I had Chicken Thai Red Curry that comes with rice and salad. $12 each.

My son had the Monday roll special 20 pieces of a specialty roll they charge $17 for 10 pieces Tuesday thru Sunday. All for $14 plus $3 for iced tea.

This is how we do it now. For dinner this bill would have been north of $90 with tip.

Today? $48 with tip. For 3 people.

And it’s top quality food. One of the best sushi restaurants around our area. Also local. So helping our local business owners.

 

[nirad3]

Went out with my son and wife for a Japanese tai lunch.

My wife and I had Chicken Tai Red Curry that comes with rice and salad. $12 each.

My son had the Monday roll special 20 pieces of a specialty roll they charge $17 for 10 pieces Tuesday thru Sunday. All for $14 plus $3 for iced tea.

This is how we do it now. For dinner this bill would have been north of $90 with tip.

Today? $48 with tip. For 3 people.

And it’s top quality food. One of the best sushi restaurants around our area. Also local. So helping our local business owners.

That's great value. We ordered sushi for pickup last night and it was $43 total with the to-go tip (I think I gave $3) but just fed me and my wife. And I could have easily eaten more, but had eaten a later lunch.

 

[Gr00vus]

Tai = Thai?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

I just looked up 12" meatball subs at my local place owned by some folks from Jersey who moved here a few decades ago and they are $10. The menu doesn't say, but I think they come with a small bag of chips. I'll buy these a million times before I go to a chain (I haven't been to Subway in forever and have no idea how their prices stack up).

Pizzas are about double bargain-shopping prices at the national chains, but miles better.

 

[Drunken knight]

dammit! now i am thinking about local mb sandwich for lunch today.

darn suggestive advertising :shakesfistatclod:

 

[nirad3]

I was actually thinking about perhaps hitting up my local cheesesteak/meatball sub place that I've been frequenting since high school (like 1991ish). I wish they had prices like described above. For their large cheesesteak or meatball or Italian sausage sub (which I get), I think they're like $16 or so, and it's for the sandwich only... no chips or anything. Still, I go because they're amazing and after all these years the owner guy still says "what's up man?!"; I don't know if he actually recognizes that I'm one of the guys that has been going there for almost 35 years but it's good to get recognized as a "regular".

 

[Joe Schmo]

Looks like it's Scittino's for dinner tonight! Best Italian cold cut around and decently priced.

I'm hungry

 

[matttyl]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

I just looked up 12" meatball subs at my local place owned by some folks from Jersey who moved here a few decades ago and they are $10. The menu doesn't say, but I think they come with a small bag of chips. I'll buy these a million times before I go to a chain (I haven't been to Subway in forever and have no idea how their prices stack up).

Pizzas are about double bargain-shopping prices at the national chains, but miles better.

Brothers pizza and subs?

Sorry - Italian touch?

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

I just looked up 12" meatball subs at my local place owned by some folks from Jersey who moved here a few decades ago and they are $10. The menu doesn't say, but I think they come with a small bag of chips. I'll buy these a million times before I go to a chain (I haven't been to Subway in forever and have no idea how their prices stack up).

Pizzas are about double bargain-shopping prices at the national chains, but miles better.

Brothers pizza and subs?

Sorry - Italian touch?

Italian Touch. I think they have a couple of locations in the area, though I may be confusing them with another place - I use the one in Woodstock.

 

[SoBeDad]

I stopped at Cracker Barrel on a weekend trip from Miami to Cape Kennedy with my roommate and her mom who was visiting from Peru. A little bit of Americana for my visitor. The bill was $55 for 3 plates, two with fried catfish and 3 sides, and one veggie plate with 4 side. Plus unlimited cornbread muffins and biscuits. 2 hot teas, 1 iced tea. Portions were good, leftover muffins and biscuits for breakfast the next morning. They liked Cracker Barrell so much, we stopped there again on the way back to Miami. $51 for 3 plates, fried chicken, grilled chicken, a veggie plate. Leftover chicken and biscuits and cornbread. Service was fast and good.

It's been a long time since I've eaten at Cracker Barrell. It brings back memories of eating there with my family over 15 years ago. And taking pictures of family in the rocking chairs.

 

[HomerSimpson]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has a awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has an awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

You’re in CA now? Where?

 

[General Malaise]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has an awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

You’re in CA now? Where?

Remember.....there's TWO Homer Simpsons here now.

 

[HomerSimpson]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has an awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

You’re in CA now? Where?

Remember.....there's TWO Homer Simpsons here now.

I've always been here. i just use this forum as mostly read only. I only chime in every now and then. I know, I need to just start over with a new name haha

 

[belljr]

11.70 for our local joint........plus tax

Cheese is extra .
No chips salads or anything else

 

[General Malaise]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has an awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

You’re in CA now? Where?

Remember.....there's TWO Homer Simpsons here now.

I've always been here. i just use this forum as mostly read only. I only chime in every now and then. I know, I need to just start over with a new name haha

The other one has forsaken us. I think this username is safely yours now.

RIP @HomerJSimpson

 

[BlackCrowes]

And what happened to lunch specials?!

 

[dickey moe]

Ordered a Cubano sandwich in Thousand Oaks earlier this week. $28 plus tax for the sandwich and fries and the sandwich was the size of a McDonalds apple pie (no lie). I laughed when they brought the plate to my table. By the time I got back to my hotel I was hungry again.

 

[the moops]

Ordered a Cubano sandwich in Thousand Oaks earlier this week. $28 plus tax for the sandwich and fries and the sandwich was the size of a McDonalds apple pie (no lie). I laughed when they brought the plate to my table. By the time I got back to my hotel I was hungry again.

Yea, but how was it?

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has an awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

You’re in CA now? Where?

Remember.....there's TWO Homer Simpsons here now.

I've always been here. i just use this forum as mostly read only. I only chime in every now and then. I know, I need to just start over with a new name haha

Where ya at?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

I don't know the area so this could be totally off, but Cubano with fries in Thousand Oaks (or maybe just outside of town) for 13 bucks with a 4.7 on yelp

Maybe if enough people buy that one and pass on the $28 place they will have to drop their prices a bit.

 

[Don Quixote]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

 

[nirad3]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

I saw that KFC has a 2-piece meal w/ taters & biscuit for $5. I don't really like mashed potatoes and not sure if you can sub mac & cheese, but seems like an OK deal if you like KFC. I don't necessarily like eating chicken (or any meat for that matter) off the bone so I probably won't ever get this, just thought it sounded like a good deal if you're looking for something on the cheap.

Speaking of McD's, I just had a quarter pounder combo at one in Costa Mesa (SoCal) and it was just short of $15. I remember when it was a good $9-10 or so. Crazy.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

I saw that KFC has a 2-piece meal w/ taters & biscuit for $5. I don't really like mashed potatoes and not sure if you can sub mac & cheese, but seems like an OK deal if you like KFC. I don't necessarily like eating chicken (or any meat for that matter) off the bone so I probably won't ever get this, just thought it sounded like a good deal if you're looking for something on the cheap.

Speaking of McD's, I just had a quarter pounder combo at one in Costa Mesa (SoCal) and it was just short of $15. I remember when it was a good $9-10 or so. Crazy.

Big Mac combo was $3.74 when I was in high school. A million years ago.

 

[Beef Ravioli Part 2]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

Dude, thanks for producing a big meatball sub craving!

Also tell me this place is near the DC region! I get to take some upcoming Monday’s off and me and the wife do some roadtrips based off regional food options.

 

[General Malaise]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

Buffalo Wild Wings promoting All You Can Eat Boneless "Wings" on M/W for $20.

Needless to say, it has a long list of rules and exceptions. But I do think fast food/fast casuals are getting the memo.

 

[General Malaise]

Meatball subs are fun to make. Should start selling them for $10/each like the lovely tamale lady who is long overdue for an office visit to see me.

 

[Todem]

Tai = Thai?

I have fat thumbs for this tiny keyboard on this iphone.

Damn these things.

 

[Todem]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

I saw that KFC has a 2-piece meal w/ taters & biscuit for $5. I don't really like mashed potatoes and not sure if you can sub mac & cheese, but seems like an OK deal if you like KFC. I don't necessarily like eating chicken (or any meat for that matter) off the bone so I probably won't ever get this, just thought it sounded like a good deal if you're looking for something on the cheap.

Speaking of McD's, I just had a quarter pounder combo at one in Costa Mesa (SoCal) and it was just short of $15. I remember when it was a good $9-10 or so. Crazy.

Big Mac combo was $3.74 when I was in high school. A million years ago.

2.99 for a Royale with cheese combo when I was in high school back in circa 1985-1988.

 

[nirad3]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

Buffalo Wild Wings promoting All You Can Eat Boneless "Wings" on M/W for $20.

Needless to say, it has a long list of rules and exceptions. But I do think fast food/fast casuals are getting the memo.

Holy smokes. I guess it's a good thing that I don't work at the office on those days, cuz there's a BWW close enough to where I work to where I'd go see how many I could handle. I love their Garlic Parmesan sauce (no other wings place does it right) and would easily down 15 of those alone. :fat:

 

[dickey moe]

Ordered a Cubano sandwich in Thousand Oaks earlier this week. $28 plus tax for the sandwich and fries and the sandwich was the size of a McDonalds apple pie (no lie). I laughed when they brought the plate to my table. By the time I got back to my hotel I was hungry again.

Yea, but how was it?

Dry and I've had better for half the price.

 

[Chemical X]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

Buffalo Wild Wings promoting All You Can Eat Boneless "Wings" on M/W for $20.

Needless to say, it has a long list of rules and exceptions. But I do think fast food/fast casuals are getting the memo.

Holy smokes. I guess it's a good thing that I don't work at the office on those days, cuz there's a BWW close enough to where I work to where I'd go see how many I could handle. I love their Garlic Parmesan sauce (no other wings place does it right) and would easily down 15 of those alone. :fat:

supermarket here carries BWW sauces. i just make the wings myself and save the $50 for 12 wings.

 

[nirad3]

McDonald’s coming out with a $5 meal deal next month (but just for a month).

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/mcdonalds-5-value-meal-starts-june-25-last-about-a-month.html

Buffalo Wild Wings promoting All You Can Eat Boneless "Wings" on M/W for $20.

Needless to say, it has a long list of rules and exceptions. But I do think fast food/fast casuals are getting the memo.

Holy smokes. I guess it's a good thing that I don't work at the office on those days, cuz there's a BWW close enough to where I work to where I'd go see how many I could handle. I love their Garlic Parmesan sauce (no other wings place does it right) and would easily down 15 of those alone. :fat:

supermarket here carries BWW sauces. i just make the wings myself and save the $50 for 12 wings.

Interesting, I should look into that. I rarely go there unless it's for their lunch special and I'm on business travel. But the fact they have all-you-can eat on Mondays & Wednesdays may prompt me to go see how many I can eat.

 

[dickey moe]

Ordered a Cubano sandwich in Thousand Oaks earlier this week. $28 plus tax for the sandwich and fries and the sandwich was the size of a McDonalds apple pie (no lie). I laughed when they brought the plate to my table. By the time I got back to my hotel I was hungry again.

Yea, but how was it?

Dry and I've had better for half the price.

Oh, and also, the Cubano didn't have any pickles in it. Retards.

 

[Desert_Power]

Ordered a Cubano sandwich in Thousand Oaks earlier this week. $28 plus tax for the sandwich and fries and the sandwich was the size of a McDonalds apple pie (no lie). I laughed when they brought the plate to my table. By the time I got back to my hotel I was hungry again.

This should be a crime

 

[Cowboysfan8]

I don't really like mashed potatoes

 

[the moops]

I don't really like mashed potatoes

Not sure I have ever heard those words spoken before

 

[snellman]

I don't really like mashed potatoes

Not sure I have ever heard those words spoken before

I live with one. She prefers baked and I prefer mashed. What was I thinking when I marrier her19 years ago?

 

[Hawks64]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has an awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

You’re in CA now? Where?

Remember.....there's TWO Homer Simpsons here now.

I've always been here. i just use this forum as mostly read only. I only chime in every now and then. I know, I need to just start over with a new name haha

The other one has forsaken us. I think this username is safely yours now.

RIP @HomerJSimpson

 

[HomerSimpson]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

My Local Italian place everyone loves has an awesome meatball sandwich. But it's $19.50. California livin i guess.

You’re in CA now? Where?

Remember.....there's TWO Homer Simpsons here now.

I've always been here. i just use this forum as mostly read only. I only chime in every now and then. I know, I need to just start over with a new name haha

Where ya at?

East Bay Area

 

[stbugs]

Didn't feel like cooking last night so I ordered 3 meatball subs from a local Italian place. I didn't look at the price before I did it because

1. We're FBGs, c'mon
2. It's 2024, we don't look at prices before we buy stuff anymore, we just buy them and then complain about the price afterwards

I get up to the register to pay for it and she kind of mumbled the total, $x7.35. I couldn't tell if she said $27.35 or $47.35. Honestly I could have seen it being either ,and I was kind of expecting the latter, but it was actually the former.

Turns out these subs, at a local italian restaurant, are $8.50 each. Now mind you these are giant subs, and they each come with a decent side (soup, salad, or small pasta portion) and garlic sticks. And the subs are really good.

Just a locally owned place. No shareholders. Owners are probably happy to live a nice life with a decent reliable customer base and not try to pinch off every penny of margin.

So yeah, moral of the story is these places still exist. I realize not everywhere, but most people don't really care how much they're spending or take the time to look at it ahead of time (which I myself was guilty of here, I just got lucky). If everyone starting caring instead of just b****ing about how much they're happily spending and shopping smarter maybe the $15 sub place down the street would sit empty and see the $8.50 sub place down the street packed. Then maybe the $15 sub place would have to choose between pricing more appropriately or going bye bye.

It is funny how the local places haven’t seen ridiculous hikes. I get a large calzone from a local Italian place because for $12-15 (can’t remember which), you basically have 3-4 meals which is good when you have a kid back from college and one in high school.

I’ve seen the inflation numbers of 20% since Biden’s been in office and wonder why it feels like some companies have jacked prices up way more than that. It’s nice to see some of the places who haven’t used inflation as an excuse to jack up prices way more. It makes you want to frequent them more often and ignore the o

I don't really like mashed potatoes

Not sure I have ever heard those words spoken before

I live with one. She prefers baked and I prefer mashed. What was I thinking when I marrier her19 years ago?

A good loaded baked potato with the proper sea salt skin is way above mashed and I like mashed potatoes. At that point, the baked potato is soft enough that it is only one level above mashed, especially when the bacon, chives, sour cream, cheese and butter have all melted down into a heavenly fork full of mouth pleasure…I think I may have followed the white rabbit a bit too far there.

 

[Instinctive]

I don't really like mashed potatoes

Not sure I have ever heard those words spoken before

I can't stand mashed potatoes. Idk when it happened, but not a fan anymore. It's a texture thing. I also struggle with pudding, refried beans, similar pasty stuff.