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It's not just fast food. They're getting the attention because they're supposed to be cheap, but the price of eating out in general has jumped over the last 4 years or so.
For example: We often eat at a local barbecue place, usually getting the same order each time. (During the pandemic, we would get take out.) I don't have the numbers in front of me, but when I looked it up a while back, I think we were paying ~$15 more now for the essentially the same order. Adding $15 on to a ~$30 order is a huge increase, as a percentage.
In general, our dining out expenses have gone way up since the start of the pandemic, but we aren't eating out more often or ordering more extravagant foods. The prices have just gone up. (When we go out for meals, we go to a mix of fast food and casual dining places, some with counter service.)
Should be noted how much of that is food and how much of that is rent. I've noticed spots that own their own location haven't had to crank their prices up quite so high. But areas in high rent neighborhoods just see restaurants collapsing like dominoes, as they're priced out and replaced with... often nothing.
A good point. The BBQ place owns their own building, I believe, but in general that is a good point.
Which is bizarre, as commercial real estate is in massive trouble.
A paradox of sorts. Because the industry needs to remain profitable, a downturn in one corner of the portfolio means raising rents somewhere else. And because the industry is increasingly cartelized, you have fewer and fewer units sold outside the scope of these massive price-fixing conglomerates.
The experience has been getting worse and the pricing getting higher and bizarre.
One of the places we would hit up a few years ago was about 8-9 dollars a person, you'd come in, sit down, have a server come out to take order/bring out food/everything.
We went there recently and it was about $18 a person, and you went up to the counter, placed your order, then you came and picked up your food, and went up to the counter for refills. At the end you walk up to the cash register, they ring you up and then suggest a 25% tip.
I wouldn't mind a bit more self service, but at that point it's just ridiculous amounts of money to charge people afraid of using a stove for a little while.
If only we had a stove at work .. all we have are like 8 microwaves...