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I’m not paying $22 for a burger. I can spend $6 on the meat, $4 on buns, $3 on blue cheese, and I have all the other seasoning and condiments at home already. That’s 4 blue cheese 1/4 pounders for $13. Or trade out the blue cheese for a handful of mushrooms and some Swiss for about $15 total. $15 vs $88 plus tip.
They did this to consumers/the economy and now they’re complaining about the fallout.
At this point I only go out for sushi. For obvious reasons.
“So what you’re saying is we need to raise the price of beef?”
Already done, thanks to Elon unleashing the screwworm on the American cattle industry.
fewer lunches than they did in 2020
When everything was shut down and people were working from home? Wtf?
If I could get a lunch for 7-8$ I'd go to restaurants every day. Instead even the fucking fastfood places all want 10-15$ for a fucking meal. I paid almost $10 for 2 burritos that used to be ,75 at tacobell a few weeks ago.
I am too poor to eat out. But I would also not eat out if it helps destroy capitalism.
Poor people should not be allowed to hoard wealth. Only wealthy people should be allowed to hoard wealth.
Remember when fast food was fast food? Now you have to wait 10 minutes for your number and the things you overpaid for are barely describable as food (i.e. McDonalds CEO refusing to eat his own burger).
The level of entitlement that just most American business owners / capital holders in general have is actually delusional, insane.
Now of course... not all of them. There are a few that are not delusional, that are not totally full of thrmselves... that are, ironically, conservative, in the sense of low ongoing risk apetite and actually performing due diligence.
... But so many of them act like it is just your responsibility, your social expectation, you disgusting pleb, to buy their product or service, whatever quality it is, whatever price it is.
No, motherfucker.
Literally, that's not even capitalism, capitalism at least very much acts like / believes that a fundamental element of it is that consumers vote with their dollars, they compare and contrast the idea of 'would i rather have thing, or the money that thing costs?'
Whats going on is that a whole bunch of people, across many different sectors of business, are actually terrible business people, who did not well predict future demand or input costs, who financed their businesses based off of loans they couldn't actually afford.
Oh you can't afford a property tax hike or insurance rate hike for your business location?
Not my fucking problem, maybe you should have considered that that is a thing that could happen.
Oh you can't afford shipping and input cost increseases?
Again, not my fucking problem, maybe you should have structured a business with less thin margins, maybe you shouldn't have voted for tariffs and blowing up 1/4 of the world's oil supply.
You can just keep going with this, farmers with no more immigrant labor to exploit, casinos and tourism businesses baffled that the state doing pogroms with a gestapo is bad for business, landlords in denial over how they're not actually geniuses and are in fact underwater and overleveraged.
So much of the American sense of cultural hierarchy is based on the idea of 'i am a business owner' or 'i make good investments'.
No, you fucking idiots, you're mostly all stupid and bad at all of this, and deserve 0 cultural accolades awarded to the 'successful entrepenuer' ... because you are an incompetent entrepenuer, a failure.
Turns out, no, no this country isn't actually a meritocratic land of opportunity that rewards something like 'just giving it the good ole college try'. Turns out its massively full of itself, fake, lying to itself, and broadly systemically corrupt.
None of that can be fixed with individualistic entrepenuership.
It can only be fixed with a collective hang over / come down, realizing we need an intervention, and then realizing we are all more or less wallowing in the same field of pigshit, and will need to cooperate in mutually beneficial ways to get to anywhere better than that.
80% of the reason I don't go out to eat more is because I fucking hate tipping.
I live alone and don't eat out. I spend about $30-$40 a week on groceries. These restaurants can all burn to the ground. It's just overpriced slop. I make better food for less money and don't care about the "social experience" they seem to bank on. We all need to find other ways than stuffing greasy garbage into our face holes to have a social interaction.
Return to office.
Return to Applebees.
The timing on this (last year after months of very sudden cuts to federal funding and tariffs tariffs tariffs killing private industry jobs) makes me think that all those hundreds of thousands of layoffs and lost jobs across the country every single month might've played a factor in this as well. But, you know, that's just me and my opinion.
