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Last night my wife had to pick my younger son from a track meet and to make it easier I went on Pizza Hut app to order pizza for the family.  
 

they had a deal for a large New York pizza so I got it and also got a large meat lovers.  I threw in some naked wings for me and my sugar and some bbq wings for my sons.  
 

I went to the cart to pay and they now have a minimum tip of 18 percent.  I also noticed the bill was over $112.  I took out the bbq wings and it was still over $75 .  
 

there are steak places where we 5 can eat for that amount.  
 

my wife thawed some ground beef and we had beef and vegetable soup instead.  Much cheaper.  

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When a business has to pay employees $15 PLUS per hour, its only a matter of time before we all realize its time to

revolt and eat more at home.

The results will be closing and layoffs, etc..............

 

So...... we either go broke trying to support businesses and employees, OR..... they go broke when we don't support them.

 

Simple economics that many of those who make 'stupid'  laws can't understand.

 

..........Widder

 

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Widder,

 

Since when does logic usurp people's feelings of entitlement?

 

:D

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17 minutes ago, Dantankerous said:

Widder,

 

Since when does logic usurp people's feelings of entitlement?

 

:D

+10

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No defense of Pizza Hut, but even our little local cafe has had to raise prices because everything costs them more as well.  Restaurants are a luxury, but both because they are neighbors and the only game nearby, I will continue to patronize them, possibly a little less often.  No winning for losing under the present régime. 

2 bags of groceries today and a gallon of milk with almost no meat and no convenience foods right around $120. Thanks Joe.

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1 hour ago, Trigger Mike said:

Last night my wife had to pick my younger son from a track meet and to make it easier I went on Pizza Hut app to order pizza for the family.  
 

they had a deal for a large New York pizza so I got it and also got a large meat lovers.  I threw in some naked wings for me and my sugar and some bbq wings for my sons.  
 

I went to the cart to pay and they now have a minimum tip of 18 percent.  I also noticed the bill was over $112.  I took out the bbq wings and it was still over $75 .  
 

there are steak places where we 5 can eat for that amount.  
 

my wife thawed some ground beef and we had beef and vegetable soup instead.  Much cheaper.  

Looks like the BBQ wings and regular wings were the culprit. Chicken prices have gone through the roof. Meat lovers pizza is pricey as well since all meat had gone up considerably ! They have to pay employees, rent, taxes and make a profit! 

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That seems high, but three large and one regular has cost about a hundred bucks for the family for quite some time now. Delivered another 20 bucks.

 

I like to eat out these latter days and I keep a close eye on the prices for good measure. There are lots of places still reasonable and those who I believe are ripping you off, crying inflation and high wages, etc, to jack it higher than necessary.

 

The cost of a fulsome Tanquerey martini is my primary index; usually much else follows from that.

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A large pizza around my area is $20 until the state of Vermont throws in its $3 of rooms and meals tax, still haven’t figured how that extra $3 has helped out the pizza place or me for that matter, seems like Vermont is giving Joe a run for his money and spending tax dollars like a drunken sailor, no offense to any drunken sailors intended, you guys earned your keep

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Schoolmarm was a server when we met. She worked her way through college on $2.50 an hour and tips!  I respect good wait staff! They work hard.
 

Honestly, I tip at restaurants, more as a habit, because wait staff used to make their living off of tips that they earned by giving exceptional service.

 

Nowdays, unless service IS really good, my tipping is purely symbolic.  They get paid, in most cases, fifteen bucks an hour and seldom provide more than the minimum attention to the customers’ needs. Hardly a recommendation for generous tipping.

 

I tip in cash and refuse to pay a built in gratuity!

 

Regarding the price of a meal in a restaurant, I look at the price vs. the portion size and the quality and preparation of the product. If I am not satisfied with those factors, I don’t return. I’m familiar with these factors in take-out foods and adjust my purchases accordingly.

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24 minutes ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:

While I will not defend Pizza Hut after their Book fiasco  Might be your location , and you can add your own tip instead of that 18% ph2.thumb.PNG.094f924d9f597e8467fbdd4d967e7bdc.PNGph1.PNG.643b2312c61ab3dfed7a680237111955.PNG

They must be cheaper in your area as i only had 6 naked wings and 12 bbq . I was more.  Interesting 

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10 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Schoolmarm was a server when we met. She worked her way through college on $2.50 an hour and tips!  I respect good wait staff! They work hard.
 

Honestly, I tip at restaurants, more as a habit, because wait staff used to make their living off of tips that they earned by giving exceptional service.

 

Nowdays, unless service IS really good, my tipping is purely symbolic.  They get paid, in most cases, fifteen bucks an hour and seldom provide more than the minimum attention to the customers’ needs. Hardly a recommendation for generous tipping.

 

I tip in cash and refuse to pay a built in gratuity!

 

Regarding the price of a meal in a restaurant, I look at the price vs. the portion size and the quality and preparation of the product. If I am not satisfied with those factors, I don’t return. I’m familiar with these factors in take-out foods and adjust my purchases accordingly.

My wife and I met while working at a very nice restaurant here in Fort Wayne. I was a punk busboy, and she was the Hostess, capital H! We recognize and tip good service, well, good. We tip excellent service accordingly! We also only tip in cash. That way, the server doesn't necessarily need to pay some to .gov.

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When my wife & I were growing up, Pizza Hut didn’t exist and eating out was considered a luxury. Even fast food like McDonalds was rare. We still live that way as we can eat much better at home for far less. We also consider the food at the majority of commercial establishments mediocre at best, so it’s not much of a treat worth paying for. 

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2 hours ago, Trigger Mike said:

Last night my wife had to pick my younger son from a track meet and to make it easier I went on Pizza Hut app to order pizza for the family.  
 

they had a deal for a large New York pizza so I got it and also got a large meat lovers.  I threw in some naked wings for me and my sugar and some bbq wings for my sons.  
 

I went to the cart to pay and they now have a minimum tip of 18 percent.  I also noticed the bill was over $112.  I took out the bbq wings and it was still over $75 .  
 

there are steak places where we 5 can eat for that amount.  
 

my wife thawed some ground beef and we had beef and vegetable soup instead.  Much cheaper.  

Annnnd, back to the OP. It is certainly a tough pill to swallow, watching prices skyrocket like they are. We are cutting back too in some areas. My new diet helps with that as apparently everything that tastes and smells good has cholesterol in it. 

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The lowliest jobs in Australia get paid $21.38 per hour, the national minimum wage is $812.60 per week for a 38 hour week.

 

There's nothing stopping you but tipping is not a part of our culture. 

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Howdy,

  9 cents for a can of tomato soup 1964 price.

I stamped hundreds maybe even thousands of cans.

Today about 129 cents. But the can has a pull top lid.

Assembly lines are all about simple work.  Work with little training.

Easy work cheap pay.  Then people with no real training want big pay.

One day a machine does the job and the untrained are living under a bridge.

Best

CR

 

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Working as said punk busboy, I made 2.35/hour. Minimum was 3.35. I had to claim at least a dollar er hour to .gov. Made my money off of tips. 

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Half wings are outrageously expensive.  I've seen some places charging two bucks a piece for them.  

 

Pizza has gone up a lot in the past few years. Even Papa Murphy's take and bake has gone way up.  

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2 minutes ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Im still trying to figure out what "steakhouse" feeds five for less than $75.

 

$15 each for a steak, side and beverage...

Is it by any chance next door to an animal control facilty?


 

Maybe Golden Corral??

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We have not done take out pizza since I retired, basically  could not afford it. So I learned how to make it from scratch.  It might cost me 25 bucks for ingredients  that will make 4 large pizzas. My wife loves it too

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9 minutes ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

If he was referencing Golden Corral - we have vastly differing definitions of a steak place.

40 years ago, Golden Corral was an excellent steak place.  Now it's an excellent salad and a mediocre food buffet place.  No decent steaks to be found there for years.

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48 minutes ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Im still trying to figure out what "steakhouse" feeds five for less than $75.

 

$15 each for a steak, side and beverage...

Is it by any chance next door to an animal control facilty?

See my 11 year old ALWAYS gets chicken fingers kids meal for $6.  My oldest son usually ops for a cheese burger and my younger son often ops for a kids meal sirloin. Only my wife and I get a ribeye or strip.   
 

there’s a local steak house that we can get out for less than $100.  Longhorn will put us at $100 before tip easily.  
 

matter of fact, I had a failed heart cath due to a machine breakdown so had to come back the following Monday and I was so convinced they wouldn’t find anything but didn’t feel like going out to eat so had my wife pick up a ribeye with fries and side salad and said,”I want to give them something to find in my heart cath Monday”. Didn’t know they’d insist on a heart bypass.  Haven’t had a steak since, sadly.

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23 minutes ago, Trigger Mike said:

See my 11 year old ALWAYS gets chicken fingers kids meal for $6.  My oldest son usually ops for a cheese burger and my younger son often ops for a kids meal sirloin. Only my wife and I get a ribeye or strip.   
 

there’s a local steak house that we can get out for less than $100.  Longhorn will put us at $100 before tip easily.  

So you cheated a little bit  :D - counting three kids meals in your total.  But thats ok - I hate the prices as well.

 

I took Desert Scorpion out for dinner for her birthday last night.

Scorpion, her fiancee Cadillac, my wife Painted Lady and myself at a casino coffee shop was meal and taxes $87.00

 

This was a Monte Cristo sandwich, an Avocado burger, Fish and chips and a stack of pancakes AND two pieces of cheesecake.

Two waters and two sodas - the kids are healthier than the wife and I. 

And since none of us are drinkers - alcohol doesn't run up the tab.

 

With tip - I dropped a $100 bill.

A decent steakhouse would cost me $250+.

But then again I would have had Filet Mignon and baked potato instead of pancakes.

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I went out for supper tonight. Taco Tuesday at the local Mexican restaurant.  I had a bowl of chips with salsa, 2 hard shell tacos, and a glass of water.

Total With Tax-------$2.70

Tip at 48% -----------$1.30

Total with tip------ $4.00

 

Usually I walk in, they ask how many taco and do I want water or a margarita, and which table.

I go to restroom and wash my hands and when I come out it is all sitting on a table waiting for me.

 

Most of the time I get a frozen margarita and sometimes I go for  3-4 tacos. ( $1.25 ea, hard or soft shell).

Frozen Margarita on taco night, ($4.50) on Wednesday, ($1.99)

Most of the time I get out of there for $5, most I think I have paid is $10. on a Wednesday for a drink and 4 Tacos.

Next time I go, will post a picture as these are not small tacos like Taco Bell.

 

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21 hours ago, Trigger Mike said:

That is one of the reasons the federal reserve keeps saying they are going to keep raising interest rates, until wage inflation goes back down.  

The *rate* of inflation may go down, but prices will not.
And that won't happen until they STOP printing fiat currency fueled by debt and injected into the economy to buy votes.

Ask yourself when was the last time you saw a new beach house in San Diego for $14,000 or a new Chevy for $2700, a box of fifty 22LR cartridges for $0.50, or gasoline at $0.17 per gallon.

These were real prices in my life time, and will never, ever come back again.
 

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Longhorn Steakhouse is great and so is Texas Roadhouse. Good steaks!

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20 hours ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

Im still trying to figure out what "steakhouse" feeds five for less than $75.

 

$15 each for a steak, side and beverage...

Is it by any chance next door to an animal control facilty?

 

I think the last time I was at Texas Roadhouse a 6 oz. Sirloin with 2 sides and dinner rolls was $13.00.  They used to have a Wednesday night special for $10.

Texas Roadhouse has great steaks, too.  My only complaint with the place is it's always crowded and tends to be pretty loud.  Not a great place to go with friends who are hard of hearing if you want to carry on any kind of conversation.

 

Oh, you said "with beverage".  I think soft drinks are $2.49 so that puts it at ~$15.50 per person.

 

 

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LIKE Texas Roadhouse!!  They know how to burn a steak just right and their appetizers, sides, and drinks are all good and good sized.

 

Ain’t had any of their desserts yet, but I aim to.

 

 I feel like I get my money’s worth there!

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1 hour ago, bgavin said:

The *rate* of inflation may go down, but prices will not.
And that won't happen until they STOP printing fiat currency fueled by debt and injected into the economy to buy votes.

Ask yourself when was the last time you saw a new beach house in San Diego for $14,000 or a new Chevy for $2700, a box of fifty 22LR cartridges for $0.50, or gasoline at $0.17 per gallon.

These were real prices in my life time, and will never, ever come back again.
 

Yes, but $18,000 was a nice annual income back in those days, but is below the poverty line now. 

 

The problem is wages lag behind price increases. Eventually they catch up, and then another round of prices occur. And so it goes - like a big slinky. 

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On 2/28/2023 at 4:09 PM, Trigger Mike said:

Last night my wife had to pick my younger son from a track meet and to make it easier I went on Pizza Hut app to order pizza for the family.  
 

they had a deal for a large New York pizza so I got it and also got a large meat lovers.  I threw in some naked wings for me and my sugar and some bbq wings for my sons.  
 

I went to the cart to pay and they now have a minimum tip of 18 percent.  I also noticed the bill was over $112.  I took out the bbq wings and it was still over $75 .  
 

there are steak places where we 5 can eat for that amount.  
 

my wife thawed some ground beef and we had beef and vegetable soup instead.  Much cheaper.  

A tip for WHAT???

At a take out place???

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