They want obedient workers who still manage to benefit their soaring profits.
The piss poor US income distribution is a massive factor.
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.
When a proper sandwich is 2,50 I don’t mind paying at a restaurant. But when I have to pay 12,50 for a slice of bread with a single piece of cheese and some lettuce on it, I prefer to bring my own, thank you.
Don’t forget the tip, otherwise the server will starve
I live in a country where hospitality staff makes fair wages. Although it could be better. But at least the responsibility for them making enough money isn’t put on customers but on the employers, as it should be.
At the place I worked at for a while we didn’t do tips. There was no system for it. If people insisted on giving a cash tip, we (the employees) would use the money to buy food for homeless people. Everyone was happy with that.
I am too poor to eat out. But I would also not eat out if it helps destroy capitalism.
You’re not poor, you’re an ACTIVIST!
Now you’re eligible to be a paid protester. That’s what I’m working on, if I can only find George Soros’ address. I hear he’s the guy that’s paying.
As an antagonist to full time RTO, I delight in bringing my own lunch and eating it in the food court.
Microwave more fish
You know what? I actually love kippers. I think I shall bring cans of the stuff for my 1000 snack.
That’s the spirit!
Poor people should not be allowed to hoard wealth. Only wealthy people should be allowed to hoard wealth.
I’d sure like to see a list of all those industries frugal people are “killing”.
I live alone and don’t eat out. I spend about $30-$40 a week on groceries. These restaurants can all burn to the ground. It’s just overpriced slop. I make better food for less money and don’t care about the “social experience” they seem to bank on. We all need to find other ways than stuffing greasy garbage into our face holes to have a social interaction.
It’s also nice to know how your meals were cooked. Is the restaurant using cheap quality spices that might have heavy metals in them? Are they heating up sauces in plastic liners and leeching an insane amount of microplastics? How about their Teflon pans, are they all scratched up?
Not to mention employee hygiene and unsanitary conditions.
Is the restaurant using cheap quality spices that might have heavy metals in them?
Oh great, more food-related horrors I have to consider: https://deeprootsathome.com/heavy-metals-in-popular-spice-brands-see-which-ones/
That one has been top of mind for me this week, because my kid’s pediatrician mentioned that they had found dangerously high lead levels in another patient recently, but the source wasn’t the local water, it was heavy spices used in middle-eastern foods.
If I could get a lunch for 7-8$ 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. The assholes are doing it to themselves.
Here in asia, I almost never cook because food is 1-6USD
Well this is inflation, and it’d be fine if wages had gone up to match, but, you know…
But inflation good for economy grow GDP haha go brrrr!
At which point we normalized listening to opinions of companies’ owners?
Even if you donated all your money to billionaires and worked unpaid, they’d still demand more. The concept of ‘enough’ doesn’t exist in capitalism.
I mean, how could it? Can you give me the highest number?
Yes, it’s ထ + 1.
It’s insane to write about “spending habits” when people have trouble just getting by.
Any article about such topics should blame those who are really responsible: the increasing gap between the rich and the middle class/poor, as well as the politicians who push this even further.
Reporters who blame the people who rely on debt just to get by are lacking empathy and decency.
fewer lunches than they did in 2020
When everything was shut down and people were working from home? Wtf?
maybe “february 2020” is the sense here
