As with most other non food items. Yet the feds claim inflation is under 10% I guess we need to read the fine print as to which month the data is extracted.
Yeah the government says the middle class is doing great......! Prices are down, wages are up. I'm glad for them cause the class I'm in is suffering!
That's how I got fat and had to end up low carbing to get less fat! I was a sucker for the two for one deals...how could I not get that? But just for me, not sharing...then one day I looked in the mirror and I was "that guy". The fat SOB you see at the Walmart and wonder how he carries all that around and "doesn't he even realize"? Funny how cheap good tasting food will make us literally cripple ourselves.We had it so good......$5 boxes, $1 mcchickens, $5 footlongs, $1.29 Bacon jrs, 2 for $6 big fish, 5 for $5 roast beef, .99 rodeo burgers, $1.50 beam and coke on fridays, 2 for $6 mix n mtch gyros/roast beef, $1.50 miller lite pounders on sat, dollar/value menus........ALL GONE....
When I had my business, at one point I was installing Gymnasium equipment. I was installing lockers in a high school (Summertime no kids around) and hired two laborers from the work program at the local halfway house...felons. These were a couple of scary looking dudes (to some people, I'm just putting the story in context) but were probably the best workers I ever hired in 22 years of business.
I do have some Asian inspired recipes I've tweaked that come out pretty good. I do better when I run with Thai flavors...lime and fish sauce are your friend as well as Thai mushroom soy sauce....that stuff is just good right out of the bottle, almost like a soup base. My favorite stir fry vegetable other than hot peppers and onions is baby bok choy.
Heck, I remember when you got 2 for $5
Yeah, remember that as well. Still remember the first time we ordered them we didn't realize they came with two pizzas so we ordered two. They came in a tray covered with paper you couldn't see through and back then we were surprised because when we opened them up they were square, not round. No other place in the area was doing that.
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I'd think prices would drop if the restaurants actually have to start competing to stay alive.Ran across this article in my morning coffee reading. You think its bad now?
A “Restaurant Apocalypse” Is Starting to Sweep Across America, and That Is Really Bad News for the U.S. Economy
(The Economic Collapse Blog)—You can get a really good idea how the U.S. economy is doing by watching restaurants in
I used to like Golden Corral; it was a good place to take the kids when they were young. They loved that chocolate fountain. But the one near us closed down during Covid & never reopened. Closest one near us now is over 45 miles away, & not worth the drive.
Prices have gotten out of control, especially at places that used to be affordable go-tos during work shifts. Fast food was supposed to be quick, cheap, and decent now it’s pushing $12–$15 for a basic meal. And you're right, it's like a cycle: fewer people buy, so they raise prices, which drives even more people away. It doesn’t make sense. Cold KFC extra crispy isn’t a bad hack though. Honestly, unless they rethink their pricing and value, a lot of these chains are going to keep losing customers.
