You would think this is the case but it’s not. I work for a company that builds restaurants and we can’t keep up with the demand. It seems to be just big chain restaurants that are suffering.
I can't believe you're even asking that question, have you not been around for the last 4 years?! Hell man, folks can barely even afford eating at home!
Your right, if you apply woke youth being more and more in the workforce,DEI hires and the fact you can hardly trust what is actually in the food? Equals failure. Shocked right 😂❤
Inflation kills business because people have to choose between basic needs and products and services they can live without. Going out to eat is one of the first things to be cut.
Labor inflation. Supply chain disruptions. Inflation for supplies, insurance premiums, rents. In other words Bidenomics. Elections have consequences, policies matter and you have to think clearly about for whom you vote. Your livelihood is at stake. Literally.
Most Americans can only afford to survive in this JB KH economy. Restaurants have always been about convience. It's a convince many Americans can't afford right now. It's always been cheaper to eat at home.
Yeah I was talking to a guy with six kids and he told me that he would take them to a restaurant and watch everyone, he decided to go to the store buy some chicken nuggets burgers and dogs. Took them all to the park and saved 80 to 100 dollars. I told him if he didn't do it that way he would never be able to afford Christmas 😂🙏❤️💯🤔👍
I paid over fifty-six dollars including a tip for two plates and three drinks for three people at a local catfish restaurant (my GF and I shared a plate). It costs too much to eat out nowadays. Especially, when you factor in tips at 20%. There's also no need for drinks to be 2.50-3.00 dollars each. My GF and I are decent enough cooks that we get by with just chilling and grilling at home.
@@ErnestoDelaCruz-ei1idthat's what I was thinking 😂 It's usually over a hundred dollars for that many people and drinks 😮 Nonalcoholic Add alcohol and 150
News flash, having restaurant experience the top has been taking to much of the pie! Also government regulations have also taken its toll, insurance companies hire lawyers to lobby for hire rates, and states with insane minimum wages like California! Worked during the 90s at a medium size chain, I saw my general managers bonus check I was flabbergasted it was over 12g for the quarter and he said his yearly was going to be bigger. The CEO'S and other board members salaries have out paced the economy. Rain in the executives and the government, like the insane taxes on adult beverages and rain in insurance requirements, than maybe the business climate would improve.
For the price of one meal in a restaurant, I can buy about 4 from the grocery store and cook for myself. The restaurant experience is not what is used to be because so many of the servers don’t want to work and it’s SO obvious. No thanks, I’ll stay home!
You forgot the most important ingredient, friendly staff. I return again and again not for the food but for the friendly staff that treats me like a king. Don't overlook customer service. That's a big factor
Me and my wife did Denny's yesterday for breakfast. It was decent, country fried steak breakfast with one juice 38$ tip and out the door for 45$ to much for a regular thing in my book. We walked out talking making our own.
It’s too expensive to eat out and it’s something that people can easily do without. There’s also several companies that deliver fresh meals that a person cooks at home when they want one. I’ve never had one but supposedly they are pretty good with a lot of variety. With the price of fuel I’m sure some people even factor that into the cost of going out. I only eat out when I’m away from home and there’s no other choice I don’t get any drinks or dessert. I can eat better quality food at home for much less and I control what goes into it.
STICKER Shock is a Real Thing. A relatively decent breakfast in a TRUCK STOP (TSA) is over $20 by the time you figure in a tip. A reasonably decent dinner almost at ANY Diner/Sit Down restaurant is AT LEAST $35-40 “Fast Food” is Quickly Following those numbers in % of increases. Its NOT the fault of the Industry Generally … their Costs have gone up as well … especially as raising “Minimum Wages” are forced into place. However … US Wages generally have NOT Increased to meet Inflation.
Hell, the problem is cost!! My taste has not change but your prices have triple to quadruple!! Can't afford the greedy companies. Car manufacturers will be the next to fail.
People on my economic level went from fastfood during the week and fancy places on weekends to fast food once or twice a year and no fancy restaurants, over the years. Now, my middle class relatives and their neighbors are doing what we've been doing, because there's no money to spare. People can barely afford the "grocery store experience", let alone the "restaurant experience"...
Higher prices, smaller portions. Hell even McDonalds cost twice as much as it should... here you used to be able to get a combo meal for $5-6, now it's double that. It's actually CHEAPER for me to eat at Arbys over McDonalds now and that is ridiculous. I hardly even eat at restaurants any more (I haven't had a Subway sub since they quit the $5 footlong promo so that tells you how many years it's been lol).
I haven’t been to a restaurant for SO LONG. I never go out anywhere to eat bc it’s so expensive everywhere. By the time you add tax and tips, you’re looking at a bank loan lol
Cell phone use in restaurants has been kil.ling the industry even before COVID. People are holding onto tables almost twice as long which dramatically slows down table turnover.
Most chain restaurants buy their food from the same food supply companies - lots of it is pre-made, heat and serve manufactured stuff with cheap and bad for you ingredients.
We just stopped going, for all 5 of us to eat at a normal working class sit down restaurant runs $15 to $16 a plate, not including a drink. add the drink and it is now pushing $20. Then the expectation of a 25% tip on top of that. easy numbers $100 for the meal, 8% TAX and 25% TIP. That is around $133 total to eat out. $25 for a Tip so someone can tell us how to order from our cell phone and then pay via a car reader on the table... Help me understand how that wait staff earned a 25% tip????
I'm a manager and a general manager in the restaurant industry. It's starts with the restaurant itself with fast friendly service with your servers, if something isn't correct with your food your servers are your last line of defense. They should be checking the dish to see if it made correctly, is the plate clean , the correct portions, and that it looks like it alway should? Are the tables set up the same? Clean? Are the servers checking on the tables? Drink? Are the products always in the restaurant that it sells ( no outages of products)? These have a lot to do with some brands going under, among other issues.
Last restaurant I went to was two weeks ago! Prices extremely high, food quality mid-grade! $163 for two! Next day was my birthday and I wanted a "Good Meal"! Fillet mignon, shrimp pasta Alfredo, broccoli and garlic toast! It was cooked to perfection! And coast $68 and I did the cooking! So explain it to me! ?
if you are, and have been running in the red ( SOMEBODY IS GETTING ROPPED OFF, SOMEBODY HAS T PAY THE DEPT, WHO IS SUPPLYING THE DEPT, WHO IS GETTING RIPPED OFF, AND WHO THE EF IS LYING )
The quality of the food at these places isnt what it used to be and plus its too expensive anymore. Heck, I can barely afford groceries, let alone entertaining the thought of casual dining.
The shared truth is when it cost 4 times as much to eat out as it did 2 years ago. The hyper inflation to pay for labor. That is why. It's not like it went up gradually. The only thing that is driving people to these restaurants are memories of the normal days.
Going out to eat is too expensive. I don't even get take out food anymore. My take out food use to be $13.50 and now it's $22 for exact same order. And on top of that,they are looking for a tip.
aside from the cost.. these restaurants stopped proving an "Experience" while dining in their establishments. Poorly managed, poor attitudes, quality of food and service..people have options and they chose to dine elsewhere💯
The future of dining is no longer traditional sit-down with hosts and wait staff. That is a dying industry unless it is higher end. The future is casual, quality fast food banquet style. Think Chipotle, Kava etc. and, fast food like McDonalds, Taco Bell will adapt by offering a few more plant based options.
Just to expensive to eat in a restaurant. I love to eat out, be waited on, dishes & mess left to someone else. But When your food isn’t always the best you decide to stay home. Texas Roadhouse is always busy, good value for families.
When people can barely afford groceries going to a restaurant is not an option.
...and add $50 if you take a taxi.
You would think this is the case but it’s not. I work for a company that builds restaurants and we can’t keep up with the demand. It seems to be just big chain restaurants that are suffering.
People are tired of spending their hard earned money on crappy food and little to no service. Plain and simple.
but expected and shamed if they drop less than a 25% tip
I can't believe you're even asking that question, have you not been around for the last 4 years?! Hell man, folks can barely even afford eating at home!
And then add on the tip that keeps growing.
YEP
Move to Europe no such thing as tips
@@stephenmarkovic878tips are included in the bill in Europe it’s not that tips don’t exist
Your right, if you apply woke youth being more and more in the workforce,DEI hires and the fact you can hardly trust what is actually in the food?
Equals failure.
Shocked right 😂❤
there wasn't a problem 4 years ago 🤔
Inflation kills business because people have to choose between basic needs and products and services they can live without. Going out to eat is one of the first things to be cut.
It’s not eating habits that’s cause people not to go out to eat. It’s the cost of everything.
Labor inflation. Supply chain disruptions. Inflation for supplies, insurance premiums, rents. In other words Bidenomics. Elections have consequences, policies matter and you have to think clearly about for whom you vote. Your livelihood is at stake. Literally.
👍👍👍
No better example than Bidenomics
BIDENOMICS!
Two words ... government interference....
Thanks to our current administration! So sad!
“ONE word”:
President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr and Kamala Harris.
Not sure why this STILL escapes people, watching the Sunday morning MSM Political shows, namely "This Week" on ABC...They STILL don't get it!!!!
Or just a failing business silly.
@@Brezzybri741 like Harris, failing/failed!! Harris specifically, it’s called failing up!
Well how do you think tariffs will help? How will Trump actually reduce prices?
Other than just saying he will?
@@drewtaylor8439 Tariffs are on imports, how will that affect restaurants, unless they are importing all of their products?
How's Bidenomics working out folks.
Funny the local restaurant are working
Works out pretty good if product doesn’t sucks nothing can be done
HEY DUMB AERICANS, will this be a Christmas season your credit cards are maxed out as you fools keep voting for ignorant DEMOCRATS?
It was great for me, made more money than I ever had.
Bidenomics Pay more get less sometimes a lot less . Good day
Most Americans can only afford to survive in this JB KH economy. Restaurants have always been about convience. It's a convince many Americans can't afford right now. It's always been cheaper to eat at home.
Most Americans can't afford $100.00 or more for a casual meal for 2-3 people.
Yeah I was talking to a guy with six kids and he told me that he would take them to a restaurant and watch everyone, he decided to go to the store buy some chicken nuggets burgers and dogs.
Took them all to the park and saved 80 to 100 dollars.
I told him if he didn't do it that way he would never be able to afford Christmas 😂🙏❤️💯🤔👍
Bidenomics
God bless Bidenomics, made the best money I ever made in my life.
Bidenomics ,thank a democrat.🤬
I paid over fifty-six dollars including a tip for two plates and three drinks for three people at a local catfish restaurant (my GF and I shared a plate). It costs too much to eat out nowadays. Especially, when you factor in tips at 20%. There's also no need for drinks to be 2.50-3.00 dollars each. My GF and I are decent enough cooks that we get by with just chilling and grilling at home.
That was cheap 😮
@@ErnestoDelaCruz-ei1idthat's what I was thinking 😂
It's usually over a hundred dollars for that many people and drinks 😮
Nonalcoholic
Add alcohol and 150
FYI, TIPS are now 25% and some places list them at 30%
Ummm gee let me think..... Bidenomics?
Prices , duh. Going out to eat at some of these places is basically spending a full days paycheck. More if you have kids
I know a guy who owns a family restaurant. Last year he told me the price he pays for food went up$4000 per month and that was last year.
May we never forget the damage done by this political party in the last four years.
Making America the number one economy in the world
We need more of that damage
@@muggles25 Everybody has a right to be stupid, but you’re abusing the privilege.
@@muggles25democrats used to be the party for the little guy. Are you saying now Reagan was right with trickle down economics?
When you can’t pay for bread and eggs, you can’t go out the restaurants
News flash, having restaurant experience the top has been taking to much of the pie! Also government regulations have also taken its toll, insurance companies hire lawyers to lobby for hire rates, and states with insane minimum wages like California! Worked during the 90s at a medium size chain, I saw my general managers bonus check I was flabbergasted it was over 12g for the quarter and he said his yearly was going to be bigger. The CEO'S and other board members salaries have out paced the economy. Rain in the executives and the government, like the insane taxes on adult beverages and rain in insurance requirements, than maybe the business climate would improve.
FJB, FKH.
FDT, FMT
Thank. You Biden and kammal toe 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
$20 / hour minimum wage doesn’t help anyone
For the price of one meal in a restaurant, I can buy about 4 from the grocery store and cook for myself. The restaurant experience is not what is used to be because so many of the servers don’t want to work and it’s SO obvious. No thanks, I’ll stay home!
plus they expect a 20% tip for lousy service
Yup yup
How many small businesses closed down dew to the bidumb/ air head administration???
Fast food soft drinks are $3.00. They cost a dime.
Plus its overpriced pig slop
It's always been overpriced compared to eating at home, but now it's BIDENOMICS PRICED.
Yeah they're not hiding the fact that it's pig slop anymore and being served by a clueless pink haired person with attitude isn't helping either.
It's called BlackRock owe me my money
Most of these restaurants serve cheap quality foods at a high cost.Consumers are finding out it's better to eat at home.
More importantly...Cheaper
Healthier and cheaper for sure 🙏👍💯❤️🤔
If I have to order my food from a computer instead of a waitress, I'm not doing it.
You forgot the most important ingredient, friendly staff. I return again and again not for the food but for the friendly staff that treats me like a king. Don't overlook customer service. That's a big factor
Me and my wife did Denny's yesterday for breakfast. It was decent, country fried steak breakfast with one juice 38$ tip and out the door for 45$ to much for a regular thing in my book. We walked out talking making our own.
Dummy rats, attacking the energy sector drove the price of everything up.
No one can afford the frills in life. Hard choices need to be made. So going out to eat isn’t realistic with high costs and tipping.
Yes, tipping is out of control. F me. 20% really? For what?
It’s healthier and cheaper to eat rice and beans.
A diet of carbs isn't healthy
Whether eating rice and beans is "cheaper" is irrelevant to the economics today. SMDH
@@bara7331it's exactly connected just like your stomach letting you know it's time to eat some more rice and beans because of Bidenomics 😂❤
I just went out to eat and the blill suggested a 20% tip????20 PERCENT!!! The service was bad!!!
It now comes up 20%, 25% ,30% 20% used to be the high end is now the low end.
If they sold food instead of chemical laden artificial so-called food, it might be different.
Exactly 💯
You can't trust the food or the server most of the time.
High prices, poor service, bad food not worth eating. In one word describes what is happening. GREED
Ill tell ya. This economy. Plain and simple.
“Restaurants” is a term used loosely for this quality of food. We need real food.
It’s too expensive to eat out and it’s something that people can easily do without. There’s also several companies that deliver fresh meals that a person cooks at home when they want one. I’ve never had one but supposedly they are pretty good with a lot of variety. With the price of fuel I’m sure some people even factor that into the cost of going out. I only eat out when I’m away from home and there’s no other choice I don’t get any drinks or dessert. I can eat better quality food at home for much less and I control what goes into it.
I haven’t been out to eat twice in three years and each time the quality and portions where smaller but the bill was double
This was all predicted by the common sense people 3 years ago.
inFLATION.
OUTRAGEOUS FOOD PRICES !
STICKER Shock is a Real Thing.
A relatively decent breakfast in a TRUCK STOP (TSA) is over $20 by the time you figure in a tip.
A reasonably decent dinner almost at ANY Diner/Sit Down restaurant is AT LEAST $35-40
“Fast Food” is Quickly Following those numbers in % of increases.
Its NOT the fault of the Industry Generally … their Costs have gone up as well … especially as raising “Minimum Wages” are forced into place.
However … US Wages generally have NOT Increased to meet Inflation.
Hell, the problem is cost!!
My taste has not change but your prices have triple to quadruple!!
Can't afford the greedy companies. Car manufacturers will be the next to fail.
We used to have 1$ double cheeseburgers at mcdonalds about what 10-15 years ago? Shits now like $5.
or more
They went woke and millennials gen z. Nothing to do with the food sucks and overpriced
Trump's growth economy will help these restaurant brands a lot over the next 4 years
we better SUPPORRT OUR FARMERS MORE give them better tax breaks sell them diesel /chemicals at cost sell them tractors/equipment at cost
Yup perzactly, help the farmers and take back all land that china bought.
Gee inflation and the high cost of anything and everything ?
Lets raise the minimum wage to $25.
That way i can impress my date by spending $150 for a candle lit dinner at McDonald's.
FJB & Bidenomics
We want classic American food.
Because they charge to much for what u get 😂😂 and people can’t afford to go out and eat out ?.
Focus, on the poor! Make it easy for,them to eat. Less or price friendly 💡💡
People on my economic level went from fastfood during the week and fancy places on weekends to fast food once or twice a year and no fancy restaurants, over the years. Now, my middle class relatives and their neighbors are doing what we've been doing, because there's no money to spare. People can barely afford the "grocery store experience", let alone the "restaurant experience"...
Higher prices, smaller portions. Hell even McDonalds cost twice as much as it should... here you used to be able to get a combo meal for $5-6, now it's double that. It's actually CHEAPER for me to eat at Arbys over McDonalds now and that is ridiculous. I hardly even eat at restaurants any more (I haven't had a Subway sub since they quit the $5 footlong promo so that tells you how many years it's been lol).
I haven’t been to a restaurant for SO LONG. I never go out anywhere to eat bc it’s so expensive everywhere. By the time you add tax and tips, you’re looking at a bank loan lol
More money for less portion and mediocre service equals decrease in sales. Millennials prefers to eat at home these days.
Maybe people can’t afford to eat out, WTF? LGB
Cell phone use in restaurants has been kil.ling the industry even before COVID. People are holding onto tables almost twice as long which dramatically slows down table turnover.
Most chain restaurants buy their food from the same food supply companies - lots of it is pre-made, heat and serve manufactured stuff with cheap and bad for you ingredients.
Maybe people can’t afford to eat out.
We just stopped going, for all 5 of us to eat at a normal working class sit down restaurant runs $15 to $16 a plate, not including a drink. add the drink and it is now pushing $20. Then the expectation of a 25% tip on top of that. easy numbers $100 for the meal, 8% TAX and 25% TIP. That is around $133 total to eat out. $25 for a Tip so someone can tell us how to order from our cell phone and then pay via a car reader on the table... Help me understand how that wait staff earned a 25% tip????
I can afford the crazy prices. I stopped going to restaurants as it is no longer enjoyable. I don't like getting ripped off.
It's all about the Benjamin's, been out for dinner lately 😮
Pretty simply, people DO NOT NEED many of these restaurants and unappetizing offerings.
Save Hooters.
👀 ✌️
I'm a manager and a general manager in the restaurant industry. It's starts with the restaurant itself with fast friendly service with your servers, if something isn't correct with your food your servers are your last line of defense. They should be checking the dish to see if it made correctly, is the plate clean , the correct portions, and that it looks like it alway should? Are the tables set up the same? Clean? Are the servers checking on the tables? Drink? Are the products always in the restaurant that it sells ( no outages of products)? These have a lot to do with some brands going under, among other issues.
Extremely interesting and informative.
Very simple............The average American can no longer afford such luxuries.
Guys got a huge forehead. Like an alien
Poor quality and high prices to pad the bank accounts of greedy corporate management is what's causing this. Be real...
Quality, Service, Price.
End of Story
“Bidenomics is working!”
Last restaurant I went to was two weeks ago! Prices extremely high, food quality mid-grade! $163 for two! Next day was my birthday and I wanted a "Good Meal"! Fillet mignon, shrimp pasta Alfredo, broccoli and garlic toast! It was cooked to perfection! And coast $68 and I did the cooking! So explain it to me! ?
if you are, and have been running in the red ( SOMEBODY IS GETTING ROPPED OFF, SOMEBODY HAS T PAY THE DEPT, WHO IS SUPPLYING THE DEPT, WHO IS GETTING RIPPED OFF, AND WHO THE EF IS LYING )
Blame Democrats
The quality of the food at these places isnt what it used to be and plus its too expensive anymore. Heck, I can barely afford groceries, let alone entertaining the thought of casual dining.
no everything is ridiculous prices
The shared truth is when it cost 4 times as much to eat out as it did 2 years ago. The hyper inflation to pay for labor. That is why. It's not like it went up gradually. The only thing that is driving people to these restaurants are memories of the normal days.
Funny thing that none of them talked about the fact that now days smart people don't want to eat processed food
Going out to eat is too expensive. I don't even get take out food anymore. My take out food use to be $13.50 and now it's $22 for exact same order. And on top of that,they are looking for a tip.
The "experts" glossed over the fact that inflation has caused people to cut out the luxuries like eating out.
I didn't know Buca di Beppo went bankrupt. I used to love Buca, but their prices got too high for me to afford.
Red Lobster has been a terrible chain for a franchise owner to operate. These restaurants have been closing down since the mid 1990's.
Chain restaurants are gross. I think people are trending toward farm to table, breweries and healthy niche local places
Let them go out of business
It’s simple . The food is no good
aside from the cost.. these restaurants stopped proving an "Experience" while dining in their establishments. Poorly managed, poor attitudes, quality of food and service..people have options and they chose to dine elsewhere💯
The future of dining is no longer traditional sit-down with hosts and wait staff. That is a dying industry unless it is higher end. The future is casual, quality fast food banquet style. Think Chipotle, Kava etc. and, fast food like McDonalds, Taco Bell will adapt by offering a few more plant based options.
Denny's oh no! Where will I go hammered with my friends at 2AM? anywhere else
Taco hell
Good employees bring regular attendance. No good employees no money
Just to expensive to eat in a restaurant. I love to eat out, be waited on, dishes & mess left to someone else. But When your food isn’t always the best you decide to stay home. Texas Roadhouse is always busy, good value for families.
Denny's has closed 3 of their restaurants in the area where I live. Closed is Idaho falls, Pocatello Idaho and the one in trementon Utah.