With food prices going to the moon, just a matter of time before restaurant’s go plop.

I can order from a thai restaurant cheaper than maccas .
I think people will realise this soon .

We just had a meal out.
Crappy food.
High prices.

With that Special Combo and Shrinking
Disposable Income,
the handwriting is on the wall.

When burger flippers with PhDs lose
THOSE jobs, where will they go?

PhD = Piled High and Deep

Digging ditches?

Schwab and Gates have their own personal chefs, no need for commercial restaurants for the doomed peasants.

No further ditches required.
Pluming and roads are for the living.
:funeral:

I paid over 100 for a father's day brunch yesterday.

French toast with cheesecake and bacon.

steak and eggs with potatoes

4 Bloody Mary's

and $100 in gasoline.

Meanwhile Joe Biden falls off a bike when he spots a five year old girl whose ass he wanted to grab....

No one forced that on you. You could have celebrated any other day. Sheeple always fall for these dumb holidays and not only have to fight for a table but pay a bunch of money for brunches. No one forced you to pay $40 for four weak cocktails bruh.

Commodity trader here

Oils price is imploding. It wont last very long above $100, there is no excessive demand its just a market driven squeeze based on news events from sanctions and anti oil green energy bs. The sanctioned russian oil has mostly finished working its way getting rerouted with them delivering to friendly nations at a discounted price and the west paying a premium for their sanctions.

It's overplayed, it's illogical at this point and with supply slowly increasing as the economy begins to show signs of recession (drop in demand with that) its inevitable that oil is going to tank.

USOIL daily chart shows an obvious double top
USOIL weekly chart with RSI shows heavy bearish divergence
It should be drastically reducing in price over the next few months unless something shocks the system once again.

I've made almost 38 million on this oil run up and look to double that on the way down now.

Democrats want cheap oil for this mid term election, they will sell their souls to get there. Dont expect it to get back to $2.50 gas range, thats gone forever. You will get $3.50-$4.50 gas and you will think thats cheap now

What you say is true but I believe the bigger take away is that biden has fucked the country out of options and continues to take away basic human rights

Where would I put 5k about right now in the market?

Do you really have to be forced to do anything nice?

If so I truly pity anyone that has any sort of relationship with you, you're really a debby downer.

and "sheeple".....

The problem with small mom n' pop type restaurants is a lot of people still believe that the only thing necessary to run a profitable restaurant is to be a good cook. Um, nope. So much more to it.

I hope you're wrong. I think your right though.

You might be right...

I just re-subscribed to one of those meal delivery services (like hello fresh, home chef, dinnerly) because I did the math and right now it's cheaper because they haven't raised their prices yet.

They're fairly high quality, convenient and easy but I'm a good cool- I don't really need ideas or instructions - so before I felt the cost wasn't worth it. But with even coventional 85/15 ground being over $5/lb and broccoli almost $3/lb etc... even cheap go-to dinner food is outrageous.

For now restaurants are price stable but for how long?

I don't support any business in Australia since they all went along with QR bullshit and clot shot mandates.

I hope all those cunts go broke. Reap the whirlwind bitches.

I still eat out maybe 3-4 times a week and that includes alcohol. I’ve seen a usual bill for two to from $35 bucks to now $65 bucks. Weird “add ons” also like auto tip, 3% if you use a credit card fee and now some even “cash only”…I still tip about 20% but wondering how many others don’t and subtract those “fees” from severs tip?

I knew when the heads of all the "big" stores like Wmart and Target stood up behind Trump in a news conference because they would be allowed to stay open during lockdown that within the next decade we woyld have no small stores left.

Four restaurants in our small town closed this week. None of them were chains, just mom and pop places.

Write "market" on your garbage can and put it in there.

I live very rural, we used to go out to eat for special occasions but not now, even fast food is outrageous, and the high cost of gas to get there pretty much seals the deal.

Made a delicious steak dinner at home for dad yesterday, with all the fixings, under 25.00 and fed a family of 4... plus we have leftovers.

When I do go into town the restaurants and fast food joints seem busy as ever.

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Last Edited by StellaBlue on 06/20/2022 08:51 AM

most are heading this way.


Its just to pricey to eat out anymore.
I would expect this to happen soon to most states...

they want corporate to run everything/so they can control what you eat and what you spend to eat.

this is class warfare against small biz (aka middle class)

Not true in the Dallas-Fort Worth area... the highway system is as clogged today along with restaurants as ever.

Now in post 2008 the traffic dropped off a cliff almost overnight but so far not this time.......

Throw in higher labor costs..higher energy costs..higher business liability and Workers Comp insurance..only so much you can either absorb and pass on to customers before it's just unsustainable

Just wait till after people spend a bunch of money on the 4th of july, then their personal budgets will take.

This will probably happen within a year if things don’t change course.

The restaurant I work at has raised prices 3 times this year and the delivery fee has gone from 3 dollars to 3.50 to 4.00 in 6 months.

People are still buying 25 dollar grinders and getting them delivered to their blue collar factory jobs but I don’t see how that can last.

i was a UPS helper. those packages leak all over the other packages. many times chicken juice. driver has to carry a bottle of cleaner and rags just for those gross things

Yep..that's what's really cut out my dining out..one thing to pay higher prices..but not paying top dollar for a shit meal..yeah I know your wholesale food costs have gone up and your cook is an unrealizable inconsistent drunk that you're glad he managed to show up today..but in the grand scheme of things ..not my problem..I'll cook at home
.save a couple of bucks and my meal will be good consistently.

The only restaurants that they want left to be open will be corporate.

they will not rest till they rename the planet "Pepsi"

All restaurants will become Taco Bell

where 23% of the product is actually real food.

Yes my family will no longer go out to eat. Two expensive

ZIRP led to too much of everything. Restaurants included. We don’t need a country of fat, lazy bastards and bitches. Cool your own good. Clean your own laundry and house. DIY.

This is America. This is capitalism. Stop complaining about the prices. Would you rather have Socialism?