I Looked Into Why Restaurant Quality Is Declining. What I Found Is SHOCKING

[PurpleThrobber]

I don’t think anyone is talking about eating cat food at home.

the discussion was around whether or not fast food is less expensive than cooking at home since most working class/lower income folks do the former out of convenience.
the quick math says that it’s decidedly less expensive to eat reasonably well(steak, fish, veggies etc etc) at home as opposed to going to McDonald’s.
My only experience with fast food nowadays is when the kids are begging for Burger Master or 5 Guys and we try to limit that because it’s not great for you…not because of the price point.

We usually eat at home during the week because it’s just easier on our schedules to have something meal prepped with sports and shit because you’re not going to have time to take them out to dinner at 5pm before football practice and when it ends at 7:30, your options are either run them through the drive thru or just get them home for the pasta that you meal prepped the day before or whatever.

Yeah I know. I just hate boomers.

The Throbber currently identifies as Generation Jones.

OG Wendy’s was fucking delicious. Circa 1980 - best burger out there.

 

[RaceBannon]

I don’t think anyone is talking about eating cat food at home.

the discussion was around whether or not fast food is less expensive than cooking at home since most working class/lower income folks do the former out of convenience.
the quick math says that it’s decidedly less expensive to eat reasonably well(steak, fish, veggies etc etc) at home as opposed to going to McDonald’s.
My only experience with fast food nowadays is when the kids are begging for Burger Master or 5 Guys and we try to limit that because it’s not great for you…not because of the price point.

We usually eat at home during the week because it’s just easier on our schedules to have something meal prepped with sports and shit because you’re not going to have time to take them out to dinner at 5pm before football practice and when it ends at 7:30, your options are either run them through the drive thru or just get them home for the pasta that you meal prepped the day before or whatever.

Yeah I know. I just hate boomers.

It's mutual

 

[haie]

I don’t think anyone is talking about eating cat food at home.

the discussion was around whether or not fast food is less expensive than cooking at home since most working class/lower income folks do the former out of convenience.
the quick math says that it’s decidedly less expensive to eat reasonably well(steak, fish, veggies etc etc) at home as opposed to going to McDonald’s.
My only experience with fast food nowadays is when the kids are begging for Burger Master or 5 Guys and we try to limit that because it’s not great for you…not because of the price point.

We usually eat at home during the week because it’s just easier on our schedules to have something meal prepped with sports and shit because you’re not going to have time to take them out to dinner at 5pm before football practice and when it ends at 7:30, your options are either run them through the drive thru or just get them home for the pasta that you meal prepped the day before or whatever.

Yeah I know. I just hate boomers.

It's mutual

But I'd have to seek out a Reddit Millennial, and I don't know if I trust their mothers to fix their hot pockets and have their GameBoy on in time. Out of sight, out of mind.

 

[haie]

Restaurant quality is great today.
Mostly because it's Tuesday.
There's a lesson in there about not being a poor Portland duck boomer that had to cold call Wendy's to try and get them to buy their employers plastic spoons.

 

[WestlinnDuck]

If only that was the case you might have a point haie.

 

[haie]

If only that was the case you might have a point haie.

My point is there's value but you have to find it. And then be willing to pay for it.
Let everything else die. Covid forced this, not you and me.
What else are we arguing about here?

 

[thechatch]

if anything COVID mostly killed small independent restaurants and helped large chains…especially those that delivered food through a window or some Somali driving their cousins car around….

I mean we all remember how miserable it was going to Whole Foods or QFC during lockdown-mania, right?
A lot easier to just get a pizza delivered on UberEats, and at that time those big chains dominated the food delivery app space. Smaller restaurants had to scramble to set up for GrubHub etc.

 

[RaceBannon]

And then Seattle decided to tax door dash into oblivion
Now working on running employers out of the state
Vote blue no matter who!
But not a cult

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

If only that was the case you might have a point haie.

My point is there's value but you have to find it. And then be willing to pay for it.
Let everything else die. Covid forced this, not you and me.
What else are we arguing about here?

I think you're attempting to divorce yourself from the reality that 90% of the country lives in. "You should be able to afford a restaurant with better food" is not a serious solution for most people.

 

[Bendintheriver]

If only that was the case you might have a point haie.

My point is there's value but you have to find it. And then be willing to pay for it.
Let everything else die. Covid forced this, not you and me.
What else are we arguing about here?

Your point is uneducated and ignorant of reality and the business of fast food, but for some self love reason you felt the need to comment. Go beat off somewhere else Junior.

 

[thechatch]

If only that was the case you might have a point haie.

My point is there's value but you have to find it. And then be willing to pay for it.
Let everything else die. Covid forced this, not you and me.
What else are we arguing about here?

I think you're attempting to divorce yourself from the reality that 90% of the country lives in. "You should be able to afford a restaurant with better food" is not a serious solution for most people.

TBF it’s kind of been his board persona for as long as I can remember.

 

[haie]

Ignorant of what reality? Yours? Fuck off to Wendy's poison and spaghetti from "Freddy's" then.
Fast food industry can diaff no matter what.

 

[haie]

If only that was the case you might have a point haie.

My point is there's value but you have to find it. And then be willing to pay for it.
Let everything else die. Covid forced this, not you and me.
What else are we arguing about here?

I think you're attempting to divorce yourself from the reality that 90% of the country lives in. "You should be able to afford a restaurant with better food" is not a serious solution for most people.

TBF it’s kind of been his board persona for as long as I can remember.

Yeah because when I made money the first thing I did was pay off my starter house, cars, everything. Next up was another property to rent out, and so on.
Getting to 0 on all those things.
Isn't that the boomer gripe on everyone? Be responsible with your money in the first place?