A nice restaurant you used to be able to be out the door at $125-$150 for 2, now it is well over $200 with drinks. So even people who can afford it are scaling back. I suspect we'll see an impact on the Restaurant Industry is some way.
Yep. Took my son out for dinner last week. One shared appetizer, two beers, and two Beef Tenderloin entrees. With tip, $215. It used to be a regular thing for us when you could get two out the door for $75 - $80. Now it’s maybe four times a year. The restaurants have to be hurting.
It’s gotten SO bad in the past five years. It’s going to get a LOT worse, too, with this horrendous, out-of-control, fiscally irresponsible federal government.
I spent the last 45 years scrimping and saving to make it to retirement and all my planning was predicated on annual inflation below 4% just as it’s been post-Reagan through Trump.
Paying people FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS to sit on their asses for two years and produce nothing really screwed the whole country.
We are going to be paying that COVID price for a LONG time.