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Almost any financial adviser will tell you that brown-bagging it should be your first move in saving for the future.
Lunch is too damned high! Vote for me.
Hipster foodies pushed the price of a hamburger and fries (from a food truck) up to $15. Want a drink with that?
I saw that iced tea and fountain soda at some “line-service” restaurants has risen to $3, for glorified water.
Because the economy’s so good. Thanks Obama!
” I think we are heading towards Europe where dining out is a luxury. “
Fast food around here is changing its focus to the EBT market. There are a few places on my bad side of town where I won’t go because I feel threatened by the crowd. (I have an over abundance of caution because I carry and I don’t want to use.)
I’ve carried lunch from home now for the better part of 20 years. Eating out is something I only do if I have to.
When I worked at the office, I ate out maybe once a month. I now work from home and am on the road. Home is leftovers and on the road is usually the cheapest meals I can find. Costco pizza can’t be beat.
Or we're just going back to what it was like in this country until the 1980s. When I was a kid we rarely ate in restaurants -- maybe once every couple of months. Even a fast-food joint was a luxury.
Consequence # 1,000,000,001 of a $15.00 per hour minimum wage.
One day a week for me. The $5.99 lunch special of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and green beans at my local diner is the bomb.
Lunch yesterday was two big bone-in fried chicken breasts, mashed pots + chicken gravy, green beans and a large Pepsi over ice @ the hospital cafeteria. Yum, and for the princely sum of $5.98. For ‘hospital food’ it’s pretty good, and this is a college town, so nothing else is near as cheap [or tasty]...
Most of the guys eat at nearby restaurants for lunch, easily dropping 50 bucks a week.
I'd rather send that 50 on ammo....
My wife walks over from her work and brings lunch from home. We sit outside and eat until it gets too hot/cold.
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at around $6-$8 even fast food is too expensive to justify, at least on a regular basis.
Especially when you consider most folks wages havent kept up with the underrated inflation numbers for the last 15 years.
less people eating lunch at the restaurants probably means that there are FEWER workers out there....
Fact is, they’ve been lying to us about the economy for years. There simply aren’t that many people working who can afford daily lunch at a restaurant. The unemployment rate is much higher than reported; many people are still home during the day!
To be honest, I find ALL food expensive. I rarely eat out these days and my bills are high. I do try and eat healthy foods and good-quality meat and fish. That’s where I go wrong, generally.
Yep. These days I don’t look as a weekday lunch as something just a little more convenient than brown-bagging it; I look at it as a fancy meal out, just not in the evening.