> You pay heavily for the luxury of having someone else prep your food. To be fair, you also pay heavily for the luxury of having the means of production (i.e.

> You pay heavily for the luxury of having someone else prep your food. To be fair, you also pay heavily for the luxury of having the means of production (i.e. a kitchen) at your disposal. Some back of the napkin calculations show that simply allocating a small area to a kitchen in San Francisco costs you $6-10 per day. That's not even including the opportunity cost and operating cost of having the tools found within the space, or the many other costs of operating a kitchen beyond raw food ingredients. And that alone can buy you an entire meal per day at some restaurants, prepared by someone else. When you factor in all of the costs of cooking for yourself, I don't think there is any way you can complete with restaurants. They have economies of scale on their side. But it is easy to ignore many of the costs of cooking for yourself.