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.
I took my wife out to one of those expensive restaurants last week, but we left because the ice cream machine was broken.
No kidding, especially on top of the other billions wasted. It's bound to catch up.