I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.
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@MLE_online at some point I realized it was cheaper for me to buy ingredients at Aldi and teach myself how to cook my favorite dishes than it is to go out to eat at a restaurant - same energy.
It’s always been cheaper, I know that, but it’s rarely worth it at this point, at least for the whole family. 70 bucks to take everyone to McDonald’s!??!
@crazybutable yeah it's nuts. I haven't had McDonald's in a couple years now
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I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.
They never seem to bring up the fact that a cocktail is like $20 now unless you go to a really divey dive bar. It's the same kind of reporting they on how no one goes to the movies anymore. It's always about changing habits, and never that movie tickets just cost a lot now.
@MLE_online met an old friend for dinner the other night. I haven't been a regular drinker in years, but I thought why not, I'll have a margarita.
It was $13! I didn't get the tiny one in the shot glass, but still: $13 is insane. I know we have inflation but pre-covid the cost was closer to $8. Even with inflation that should be just over $10. The drink cost as much as my actual meal.
Restaurants have no one to blame but themselves for failing to recruit the next generation of alcoholics.
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@crazybutable yeah it's nuts. I haven't had McDonald's in a couple years now
@MLE_online the sausage and cheese McMuffin is the only deal remaining (at least here in Minneapolis) at 2.49, buy one get one for a dollar. So nearly 4 bucks after taxes. Filling and tasty. Nothing is worth it after breakfast is over though.
Wendy’s has the sausage breakfast burrito, which is 2012 levels of huge for only 4.99. And the Dave’s double, just the burger for 6 and change.
Burger King is either one whopper (6 and a bit) or two whopper jrs (5.00).
Taco Bell can go fuck themselves
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@crazybutable yeah it's nuts. I haven't had McDonald's in a couple years now
@MLE_online The actual taco truck by my work is amazing, but 3.75 for one taco. So I get three and cry, and I don’t know if I am crying from how good it is, the price (remember when these were a dollar each?), or how spicy the salsa is
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I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.
They never seem to bring up the fact that a cocktail is like $20 now unless you go to a really divey dive bar. It's the same kind of reporting they on how no one goes to the movies anymore. It's always about changing habits, and never that movie tickets just cost a lot now.
A whole generation becoming straight edge solely because booze and drugs are utterly unaffordable, what a recession indicator is that -
@MLE_online The actual taco truck by my work is amazing, but 3.75 for one taco. So I get three and cry, and I don’t know if I am crying from how good it is, the price (remember when these were a dollar each?), or how spicy the salsa is
@crazybutable that is way too much for one taco, especially from a taco truck. yeesh
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There's a burrito place near me that I really like, that I've been eating at for years. I used to go once a week or so, but since the pandemic, the price of a burrito went from $5 to $11, and that's just too much! I eat there once every few months now. It doesn't mean I don't like burritos though.
"Alcohol is a poison. It's good that alcohol is too expensive now."
Shut up and go away
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"Alcohol is a poison. It's good that alcohol is too expensive now."
Shut up and go away
@MLE_online life is a poison and the alcohol dulls the pain.
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@MLE_online life is a poison and the alcohol dulls the pain.
@kwf you're very wise as usual, kenneth
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@kwf you're very wise as usual, kenneth
@MLE_online I'm a poison and the wisdom dulls the pain.
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"Alcohol is a poison. It's good that alcohol is too expensive now."
Shut up and go away
@MLE_online I *almost* feel that way about cigarettes (I smoked for 20 years). I still get the craving and urge for one now and again, but at $15+ a pack, I’m too cheap to buy one (not to mention it would start me back smoking again)
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@disorderlyf If they're not putting alcohol in their drinks, they should be much, much cheaper, but those mocktails are expensive as hell, too. They just charge way too much for all of it
@MLE_online @disorderlyf They’re not increasing prices just for the hell of it. Most places run with such thin margins that they’re trying to increase just enough to survive without running customers off to a bar that’s a dollar cheaper.
Mocktails cost nearly the same as alcoholic beverages because the alcohol is nearly negligible to the business’s overall cost of the beverage. Their rent doesn’t care if a drink has alcohol or not. Their bartender and door person and cleaning crew and manager and utilities and rent all have to get paid, and each seat has to contribute towards paying the bills. Cutting a dollar of two of alcohol results in a dollar or two of price difference because that’s their cost of doing business.
Bars and restaurants are struggling with the cost of living just like the rest of us. It hits them even harder because, as you point out, when times get tough it’s a lot cheaper to stay home with a bottle.
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I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.
They never seem to bring up the fact that a cocktail is like $20 now unless you go to a really divey dive bar. It's the same kind of reporting they on how no one goes to the movies anymore. It's always about changing habits, and never that movie tickets just cost a lot now.
@MLE_online It kind of amazes me that the pandemic DIDN'T spawn a burst of alcoholism. People stuck alone at home for months and months? With (at least in the case of the USA) an incredibly stupid government making idiotic choices?
But if you make a habit too expensive, people will do something else instead.
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@kilroy_was_here @MLE_online Ain’t saying that alcohol doesn’t have it’s drawbacks, it can be some nasty stuff, too
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@kilroy_was_here @MLE_online Ain’t saying that alcohol doesn’t have it’s drawbacks, it can be some nasty stuff, too
@kilroy_was_here @MLE_online Glad you were able to quit
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"Alcohol is a poison. It's good that alcohol is too expensive now."
Shut up and go away
@MLE_online
Substitute oil and I’m on board … -
@MLE_online met an old friend for dinner the other night. I haven't been a regular drinker in years, but I thought why not, I'll have a margarita.
It was $13! I didn't get the tiny one in the shot glass, but still: $13 is insane. I know we have inflation but pre-covid the cost was closer to $8. Even with inflation that should be just over $10. The drink cost as much as my actual meal.
Restaurants have no one to blame but themselves for failing to recruit the next generation of alcoholics.
@stiv @MLE_online If your drink was $13, and your food was the same, then your food would have been $16-17 without the drink. Many restaurants, specifically those which offer alcoholic beverages, price their food as a loss leader. With high costs and low prices, food nearly breaks even. All of their profit (and it ain’t much) comes from drinks’ higher margin. Without the lower priced food to bring people in to purchase drinks, people would walk next door.
It’s the same with desserts, though I haven’t seen those brought up in this thread. I’m sure most of us who skip drinks at dinner due to the price will also be skipping dessert for the same reason. The only different for me is that I grew up skipping dessert because my parents couldn’t afford it. We might have something at home, but (almost) never at a restaurant.
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@MLE_online I *almost* feel that way about cigarettes (I smoked for 20 years). I still get the craving and urge for one now and again, but at $15+ a pack, I’m too cheap to buy one (not to mention it would start me back smoking again)
@FurryBeta @MLE_online I love that being able to afford to smoke cigarettes is slowly becoming a flagrant show of wealth.
I imagine some silly future scene where some dude rolls up in a Bentley and another person in a leather jacket's like, "oh yeah?" and then casually lights a cigarette (that costs the same as that car.)
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@FurryBeta @MLE_online I love that being able to afford to smoke cigarettes is slowly becoming a flagrant show of wealth.
I imagine some silly future scene where some dude rolls up in a Bentley and another person in a leather jacket's like, "oh yeah?" and then casually lights a cigarette (that costs the same as that car.)
@ArchiteuthisFlux @MLE_online It’s pretty much the same as lighting cash on fire anymore. Not quite as flamboyant as lighting a cigar off of a C bill, but getting there
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@MLE_online Hmm. Am I just running a business with diminishing cultural relevance in an unraveling economy? No, it's the people who are wrong.
@thriftwicker @MLE_online omg without the text this meme is a perfect depiction of waking up after drinking *right on the edge of* too much and just powering through through it like an adult.
