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Spending in restaurants will slow down soon. Restaurants were reluctant to increase prices post pandemic shut downs to attract more customers. But now that has
by darth_avocado 4y ago
Spending in restaurants will slow down soon. Restaurants were reluctant to increase prices post pandemic shut downs to attract more customers. But now that has changed. More and more restaurants are increasing prices and consumers are noticing. And if you do app based delivery, that increase is even more pronounced.
- adam_arthur 4y agoWas amazed when I saw Chipotle burritos are over $10 now.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoAs long as the Taco Bell cravings box stays the same, we're fine.
- thepasswordis 4y agoTruly the most important stable coin of them all is the Taco Bell cravings box.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoAs an European who never head Taco Bell, these comments leave me scratching my head.
- the_lonely_road 4y agoIt’s a chain that can be found everywhere in America from the Vegas strip (with a VIP party room upstairs no less!) to the smallest town and sells very cheap “Mexican themed” food like tacos and burritos. It’s especially loved by people on a tight budget like teenagers and college students as well as drunk people in the middle of the night (most are 24 hour drive thrus) of all income brackets. The calories per dollar spent are hard to beat anywhere else but you are encouraged to not dwell on the quality of the meat.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoGotcha, so it's the US equivalent of the European Döner Kebab.
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- pkaye 4y agoTaco Bell food is more like the Subway sandwich quality food. Its not the best but its available everywhere. We have places that sell Döner Kebab but its small chains here and there.
- saltcured 4y agoMaybe in function but not in quality. The kebab places have an honesty to them of an actual pile of meat... imagine if McDonald's decided to sell "Italian themed" food and called itself Spaghetti Bowl.
- ska 4y agoFills some of the same niche but significantly lower than the average quality, I suspect. Little to no variability though, compared to going to an unknown doner place in a new city…
- to11mtm 4y agoI mean it kinda depends to an extent. If I had to distinguish Taco bell from, say, McDonalds, I would say that Taco bell has the advantage of being filling but not putting you in a food coma. One of it's biggest unsung heroes is the bean burrito; It avoids most questions about the meat and has been a popular option among folks who wanted to avoid meat in their diets. It's... almost healthy. Almost.
- yellowapple 4y agoMexican food in general would be. Taco Bell would be if a large corporation operated a bunch of kebab shops, but used the absolute cheapest ingredients possible (with said ingredients largely being precooked and prepackaged such that anyone with so much as basic motor skills can slap a kebab together in 15 seconds), "Europeanized" it until there's only superficial resemblance to a kebab at best, and then sold it for similarly cheap prices from drive-thru fast food restaurants.
- executive 4y agoever been to Spain?
- darth_avocado 4y agoThe most important stable coin is the Costco hotdog
- bombcar 4y agoThey've already messed with it a few times, the dog isn't the same as it used to be (and the polish sausage isn't an option anymore iirc) and the soda went from Coca Cola to Pepsi; I assume they made a deal with Pepsi where they get it for free.
- wffurr 4y agoWon't it likely stay the same price but get a little smaller over time? aka shrinkflation.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoOr available during fewer hours. Around me, Taco Bells close at night and Sundays. Or the workers are worse quality than before, and so your food comes out worse or with less reliability.
- indymike 4y agoWas $5, is $7.99 where I live. I feel less cravings.
- SteveNuts 4y agoA large pizza now runs around $18 here in a Midwest suburb, it's getting wild.
- darth_avocado 4y agoIt’s wild out here in California. $18 might get you an entire burrito if you’re lucky.
- notduncansmith 4y agoI’m guessing you were being facetious, but in case any non-California residents don’t catch the joke: My favorite burrito in LA is $7, my second-favorite is $15 but is so large I have to split it with my partner or a friend, and burritos from my favorite taco truck are $9. We are far from $18 burrito territory unless you’re trying to eat expensively.
- mbg721 4y agoBeing in Ohio, we assume that in the Bay Area it costs $15 just to look at a menu.
- fragmede 4y agoIf you're in LA you're far from burrito territory. LA is south of the burrito-taco line. North of the line, burritos are tastier. South of the line, tacos are tastier.
- mbg721 4y agoWhat about the San Diego style burrito?
- gamblor956 4y agoNorth of LA it isn't possible to get a good burrito, taco, quesadilla, or any other Mexican dish. At best, you're getting Mexican-style crap.
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- MontyCarloHall 4y agoA large part of inflation may just be fairly rebalancing wages. Prices of a lot of goods/services with very thin margins (e.g. restaurants) have always been artificially deflated because they've always paid their labor exploitatively low wages. As that starts to change, and those industries' wages increase faster than wages of industries that haven't historically paid exploitatively low wages, then the latter group of people will experience inflation, even if the total money supply remains constant.
- bombcar 4y agoRestaurants have tried to keep prices level, and for some things it is now cheaper to get it at a restaurant than at the grocery store. Dominos with coupon is now cheaper than frozen pizza around here.
- jen20 4y agoCooking for one in the US with ingredients that aren’t laced with preservatives is incredibly expensive, especially if you live in a city. I found it to be the case even 6-7 years ago that it was cheaper to eat out every night than it was to cook.
- mbg721 4y agoThis is true (unless you're okay eating the same thing as leftovers for a week straight); cooking for two makes it a lot easier and opens up more options.
- yellowapple 4y agoThankfully I'm fat enough that "cooking for two" is the default :)
- mbg721 4y agoFat or not fat, there is a point where pork shoulder day in and day out ceases to be appealing.
- vgeek 4y agoA+. I only really eat chicken, so my dog counts as an interested party with regards to meals. It doesn't take much effort (eg don't sauce her food, nothing fried, lots of rice and veggies in the rice cooker) and she is always thrilled for the variety.
- bombcar 4y agoI blew a friends mind one lunch when we stopped at the store to get dog food - by pointing out the giant bag of frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts was cheaper per pound than the dog food.
- diordiderot 4y ago4 meat packing companies produce 85% of US meat. All 4 are reporting record profits
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThere are so few service workers post pandemic that restaurants could probably double prices and still not have enough staff.
- tmaly 4y agoA friend runs a long time diner in a popular college town. He was thinking of buying a box of lobster tails a few months back. Wholesale price was $800 for the box. He ended up passing. Just think, wholesale prices are out of control, how can a restaurant not raise prices to stay in business?
- mikhmha 4y agoI am finding that prices at restaurants are increasing while quality has been decreasing. It really puts me off from going out to eat. A lot of places I frequent have really dipped in quality. It’s a combination of lower quality ingredients and staff no longer giving a shit (i don’t blame them) + turnover of experienced staff.