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In reply to the discussion: There's A Masive Restaurant Industry Bubble, and It's About To Burst [View all]Aristus
(66,294 posts)51. My wife and I don't eat out as much as we used to.
We both have busy careers and always come home tired. We spent a staggering amount of money on restaurants and take-out. We just couldn't sustain that habit anymore. So we've started grocery shopping again. For foodstuffs, not just for soap, milk, light bulbs, and snacks. We cook two or three times a week, tired as we are. And when we sit down to our home-cooked meal together, it makes it all worth it.
We live for the rest of the week on the leftovers, spending for an entire week's meals what we used to drop in one visit to a restaurant.
I expect that an economic shitstorm is on its way here. The best thing to do is hunker down and economize as much as possible until it blows over...
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Grey Lemercier
Jan 2017
OP
I was just going to mention that myself. I'm not a huge foodie because I personally
Nay
Jan 2017
#19
Locally, they come and go. Mostly they go when the building owner jacks up the rent.
FarCenter
Jan 2017
#3
Yep. A local Chinese Restaurant paid $12K/Month for a medium strip mall store. Move to small $6K one
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2017
#16
Maybe if they focused on healthier, or, gasp, more vegetarian, meals that would help.
MoonRiver
Jan 2017
#6
I can cook for myself for a week for the price of one meal in a restaurant.
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2017
#20